What were they thinking?

[pecunium]

Anybody here know what C4 is good for? For those who don't, it's the Army's preferred plasitc explosive. It's what makes the ball-bearings in a Claymore mine so effective. Carefully applied one could use a pound, or so, to take out a one story home.

We let looters get at 350 tons, or so, go missing, during the war.

I'd let this go, but for a couple of things... the most important being we knew exactly where it was. It was under seal in Al Qa Qaa. They were locked up because of the sanctions in place, from the last fracas.

Becaause they can be used as triggering charges for nukes, they were off limits, so long as the sanctions were in place. But, because they can be used in construction, and for other, non-military functions, they weren't removed. Just kept locked away.

The IAEA offered to help us look for WMD, and to police up known sites, after the shooting stopped, but we rebuffed them.

Anyone care to guess what those explosives are being used for now?

TK

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I don't get the implication

[rosetta--stone.livejournal.com]

Besides who are "they"?

Re: I don't get the implication

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

They would be the people running the war (the one's who had a slide just weeks before the invasion which said, "to be provided" for plans on how to stabilise the area, once the shooting was done).

The implication is that some 350 tons of materiel, most useful for manufacturing anti-personell and anti-vehicular devices, as well as car bombs, were allowed to go missing.

When the existence, and location of same, was known in advance.

TK