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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[pecunium.livejournal.com]

And I just found this

Mohammed al-Sharaa, who heads the science ministry's site monitoring department and worked with UN weapons inspectors under Saddam, said "it is impossible that these materials could have been taken from this site before the regime's fall."

He said he and other officials had been ordered a month earlier to insure that "not even a shred of paper left the sites."

"The officials that were inside this facility (Al-Qaqaa) beforehand confirm that not even a shred of paper left it before the fall and I spoke to them about it and they even issued certified statements to this effect which the US-led coalition was aware of."

He said officials at Al-Qaqaa, including its general director, whom he refused to name, made contact with US troops before the fall in an effort to get them to provide security for the site."

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=31993

The whole article is worth reading.

TK