Anyone see the 380 tons of high explosives the Bush Administration lost?

eek. · Oct 25, 2004

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED !
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The IAEA said the US-led coalition had been warned about the danger

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Nearly 350 tons of conventional explosives have vanished from a former military complex in Iraq, the UN says.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the explosives vanished from the al-Qaqaa facility near Baghdad during looting after the invasion.

It added that the explosives could be used in powerful conventional weapons or to detonate nuclear devices.

Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the nuclear watchdog, is to present a letter to the UN Security Council on Monday.

'Greatest blunder'

It is expected to spell out concerns about how the explosives were allowed to fall into the hands of looters while the site was under coalition control.

Democratic presidential contender John Kerry has accused US President George W Bush of committing "one of the greatest blunders" of his administration in failing to secure the material.

A Pentagon official said the Iraq Survey Group - the CIA task force that searched for unconventional weapons - had been ordered to investigate the disappearance of the explosives.

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Our main concern is that if the materials fall into the wrong hands they could be used to commit terrorist acts

IAEA spokesman

</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>They are thought to have been taken from the al-Qaqaa complex, 25km (16 miles) south of Baghdad, at some point after 9 April 2003.

The IAEA said the US-led coalition had been warned about the danger posed by the explosives on several occasions.

It says the coalition forces were specifically told to keep the material secured.

The IAEA spokesman said the Iraqi interim government had alerted the agency about the missing explosives on 10 October.

The coalition forces in Iraq were informed on 15 October through the US administration, he said.

Access denied

"Our main concern is that if the materials fall into the wrong hands they could be used to commit terrorist acts," the spokesman added.

He said the explosives had been kept under seal by the IAEA until the US-led invasion of Iraq, after which point it had not been allowed to access the site.

The stolen material included HMX and RDX - key components in plastic explosives, which have been widely used in car bombings in Iraq.

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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>BBC defence and security correspondent David Bamford said the IAEA had valid grounds for concern because even a kilogram of these high-powered explosives was enough to level a building.

Nobody seems willing to take responsibility, he said, with the IAEA arguing the war forced it to suspend its monitoring activities and the US-led occupation force putting other priorities ahead of preventing looting.

The IAEA earlier this month raised concerns over the disappearance of nuclear equipment and materials from Iraq's main nuclear site, Tuwaitha.

Iraq's Interim Technology Minister Rashid Omar confirmed the explosives had disappeared in an interview with the New York Times.

The paper claims US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was told about the missing explosives only in the past month but it was not yet known if US President George W Bush had been informed. US weapons experts are concerned the explosives could be used in bomb attacks against US and Iraqi forces in the run-up to Iraq's planned elections in January. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3950493.stm

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Shotgun · Oct 25, 2004

Oops...the NY Times is wrong again.

"But tonight, NBCNEWS reported, once: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 -- when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!

An NBCNEWS crew embedded with troops moved in to secure the Al-Qaqaa weapons facility on April 10, 2003, one day after the liberation of Iraq.

According to NBCNEWS, the HMX and RDX explosives were already missing when the American troops arrived.

It is not clear why the NYTIMES failed to report the cache had been missing for 18 months -- and was reportedly missing before troops even arrived.

The TIMES left the impression the weapons site had been looted since Iraq has been under US control.

[In a fresh Page One story set for Tuesday on the matter, the TIMES once again omits any reference to troops not finding any explosives at the site when they arrived in April of 2003. Attempts to reach managing editor Jill Abramson late Monday were unsuccessful.]

"The U.S. Army was at the sight one day after the liberation and the weapons were already gone," a top Republican blasted from Washington late Monday.

The International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors last saw the explosives in January 2003 when they took an inventory and placed fresh seals on the bunkers."

eek. · Oct 25, 2004

I wonder what the GOP Brownshirts are up to....

Last week there was missing nuclear bomb making kit.

This week there is missing Nuclear bomb explosives.

The IAEA has been deliberately kept out of Iraq by the USA.

We only hear about this crap when the IAEA reports it to the UN, there's not a cheep from the "freedom loving" Bush brigade.

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IAEA inspectors last saw the explosives in January 2003 when they took an inventory and placed fresh seals on the bunkers, Fleming said. Inspectors visited the site again in March 2003, but didn't view the explosives because the seals were not broken, she said. Nuclear agency experts pulled out of Iraq just before the U.S.-led invasion later that month, and have not yet been able to return for general inspections despite ElBaradei's repeated urging that they be allowed to finish their work. Although IAEA inspectors have made two trips to Iraq since the war at U.S. requests, Russia and other Security Council members have pressed for their full-time return so far unsuccessfully.

Saddam Hussein's regime used Al-Qaqaa as a key part of its effort to build a nuclear bomb. Although the missing materials are conventional explosives known as HMX and RDX, the Vienna-based IAEA became involved because HMX is a "dual use" substance powerful enough to ignite the fissile material in an atomic bomb and set off a nuclear chain reaction.

Both are key components in plastic explosives such as C-4 and Semtex, which are so powerful that Libyan terrorists needed just a pound to blow up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, killing 170 people. Insurgents targeting coalition forces in Iraq have made widespread use of plastic explosives in a bloody spate of car bomb attacks. Officials were unable to link the missing explosives directly to the recent car bombings, but the revelations that they could have fallen into enemy hands caused a stir in the last week of the U.S. presidential campaign.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=197772

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
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Redneckman · Oct 26, 2004

All you liberal communist wackos, don't break your leg trying to get your foot out of your mouth.

GAMEFACE · Oct 26, 2004

Redneckman said:
All you liberal communist wackos, don't break your leg trying to get your foot out of your mouth.

LMFAO! They'll just move on the next big lie and repeat it like it's fact.

American · Oct 26, 2004

Shotgun said:
Oops...the NY Times is wrong again.

"But tonight, NBCNEWS reported, once: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 -- when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!

An NBCNEWS crew embedded with troops moved in to secure the Al-Qaqaa weapons facility on April 10, 2003, one day after the liberation of Iraq.

According to NBCNEWS, the HMX and RDX explosives were already missing when the American troops arrived.

It is not clear why the NYTIMES failed to report the cache had been missing for 18 months -- and was reportedly missing before troops even arrived.

The TIMES left the impression the weapons site had been looted since Iraq has been under US control.

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Boy, am I sick of the lying by omission tactic.

eek. · Oct 26, 2004

Anyone see the 380 tons of high explosives the Bush Administration lost?

Its being hand delivered in small 1-2kg packages, one at a time.

And once they're finished with the America and its collaborators...
...then they'll start blowing each other to pieces...

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
:biglaugh:

IAEA inspectors last saw the explosives in January 2003 when they took an inventory and placed fresh seals on the bunkers, Fleming said. Inspectors visited the site again in March 2003, but didn't view the explosives because the seals were not broken, she said. Nuclear agency experts pulled out of Iraq just before the U.S.-led invasion later that month, and have not yet been able to return for general inspections despite ElBaradei's repeated urging that they be allowed to finish their work.

Jointpleasure · Oct 26, 2004

October Surprise 1992 - Casper Wienberger in Iran Contra

October Surprise 2000 - GW DUI released

October Surprise 2004 - Ammo Dump

This latest one blows up in right in the demis face! HAHAHAHAHA

CBS, ABC, and now NBC have been exposed for the libs they are and their time has come and gone!

Jointpleasure · Oct 26, 2004

GW needs to call the fraud out and call this tall drink of phoney baloney the liar that he is. Jehn Kerry's UN was responsible for the facility that stored the weapons and they let Saddam move the them until the US arrived. Kerry blames the United States of America's military for this - sound familiar? He is a traitor and should be hung from the nearest tree.

Bush back down to -140. HMMM??? Can you say let's get some more cake?
"KEEP THE COWBOY 2004"