] 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]

TPM : Missing TONS of High Explosives