Report:Explosives Already Gone When US Troops Arrived

Report: Explosives already gone when U.S. troops arrived (CNN reporting on this now)
CNN ^ | 10/26/04


Report: Explosives already gone when U.S. troops arrived NBC News says its crew was embedded with soldiers at time

(CNN) -- The mystery surrounding the disappearance of 380 tons of powerful explosives from a storage depot in Iraq has taken a new twist, after a network embedded with the U.S. military during the invasion of Iraq reported that the material had already vanished by the time American troops arrived.

NBC News reported that on April 10, 2003, its crew was embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division when troops arrived at the Al Qaqaa storage facility south of Baghdad.

While the troops found large stockpiles of conventional explosives, they did not find HMX or RDX, the types of powerful explosives that reportedly went missing, according to NBC.

The International Atomic Energy revealed Monday that it had been told two weeks ago by the Iraqi government that 380 tons of HMX and RDX disappeared from Al Qaqaa after Saddam Hussein's government fell.

In a letter to the IAEA dated October 10, Iraq's director of planning, Mohammed Abbas, said the material disappeared sometime after Saddam's regime fell in April 2003, which he attributed to "the theft and looting of the governmental installations due to lack of security."

Baghdad fell on April 9, 2003. According to NBC, troops from the 101st Airborne arrived the next day to find that the material was already gone.

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war-huh (da da dada dada)
what is it good for-

just never know who to believe sometimes...

Well I certainly don't believe anything that comes from Washington or London , both Bush and Blair have problems when it comes to the truth.

Agreed, Pyscho.

"It was gone before I got there."
Yeah.. ok. Oh well now that just makes it all better. :)

How could a statement like that not resemble a fool making excuses for his mistakes?? Oh wait.. that's pretty much what the Bush admin. does, anyway.:rolleyes:

hey gday doc. good t see you.

our honorable prime minister Jon Howard is the contraceptive between those 2 in the orgy of evil.
bush is makin our little john feel big coz when the US gets itself blown to hell we're gonna have a bad boat person crisis.
54th state lol

Ok, when they noticed a bunch of missing explosives, why wasn't anything done to find them? It's great, as that is largely the kind of explosive that has been being used in the car-bombs. Way to keep the Iraqis free and safe George, good job. "Freedom is on the march" straight to hell, led by George W. Bush.

peace, if your evil leader will ever allow for it.

I have them !!!!!!!!!

i think all the weopons of mass destruction must be mirages in the desert.
all these bombs like the WMB's never existed lol.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...losives_abc_dc