k wrote:
] ] This has been rumored in Washington for several days. And
] ] now the Nelson Report has broken the story.
] ]
] ]
] ] Some 350 tons of high explosives (RDX and HMX), which were
] ] under IAEA seal while Saddam was in power,
] ] were looted during the early days of the US occupation.
] ] Like so much else, it was just left unguarded.
]
] [ It's all over the media now, in varying degrees of
] aggressiveness. The NYT article (iirc) puts the number at 380
] metric tonnes, almost a million pounds of easily transported,
] safe-to-handle, high explosive material, now in the hands of
] enemies. Such a bad situation for our troops. -k]

What perplexes me about this story, is that it's not *new* news. This is something that happened over a year ago, during the looting. There were *lots* of stories then about Bad Things that occurred at that time. Historical artifacts taken, radioactive yellowcake powder being scattered all over the village near Tuwaitha... Kerry's even referred to this stuff in the debates, about ammo dumps being looted. So that this story of explosives being taken *then* is being released as a fresh news story *now* smells very very suspicious to me.

RE: TPM : Missing TONS of High Explosives