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Disturbing yes, However, the article never mentions when they went missing. Apparently it is a discrepancy of the time last inventoried by IAEA and now and could have been moved in the run up, as well as the war pahse, or the occupational phase.
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This is news?
Saddam spends billions on munitions, gets invaded, everybody wants a bit of their cash back... so they loot the weapons.
350 tons of ordanance between 20 million people? That's a very conservative estimate.
Hell, they paid for it, why shouldn't they have it?
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The site was checked in the last round of inspections in 2003- so that gives us a short timeline for when this stuff would go missing.Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
Disturbing yes, However, the article never mentions when they went missing. Apparently it is a discrepancy of the time last inventoried by IAEA and now and could have been moved in the run up, as well as the war pahse, or the occupational phase.
Why did it take a year or more for the IAEA to get an idea? They should have been let back into the country come the fall of Saddam's regime.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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According to all those ppl who say that Saddam didn't have WoMD all them explosives must never of existed... So how did they get stolen?Comment
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MIlitary high explosives are not a WMD, nor were the Iraqis banned from using it- but because they are dual use, they had to be monitored.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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Now they've encouraged so many more people to become terrorists it's good they are letting them arm themselves.Jon Miller: MikeH speaks the truth
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How the hell are conventional explosives WMDs? That's just idiotic.Originally posted by Japher
According to all those ppl who say that Saddam didn't have WoMD all them explosives must never of existed... So how did they get stolen?Stop Quoting BenComment
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The irony is that these explosives were locked away safe from terrorists before we invaded; due to this rank incompetence, we've helped to potentially disseminate 380 tons of HMX and RDX to terrorists.
This is reason enough alone to remove those retards that make up this Administration from power.
350 tons of ordanance between 20 million people? That's a very conservative estimate.
380 tons of high explosives explosives taken from a single site."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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used to demolish buildings, produce missile warheads and detonate nuclear weaponsNot too rediculous.HMX and RDX, could be used to produce bombs strong enough to shatter airplanes or tear apart buildings. The bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 used less than a pound of the material of the type stolen from Al Qaqaa, and somewhat larger amounts were apparently used in the bombing of a housing complex in November 2003 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the blasts in a Moscow apartment complex in September 1999 that killed nearly 300 people.Comment
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Yes it is rediculous. That's for the trigger of the nukes, not the nukes itself. Not WMD by any half-way sane definition.
The explosives could also be used to trigger a nuclear weapon, which was why international nuclear inspectors had kept a watch on the material, and even sealed and locked some of it. The other components of an atom bomb - the design and the radioactive fuel - are more difficult to obtain."Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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Can not you traitor-crats see that by allowing the explosives to get stolen, Dear Leader Dubya has made us safer from terrorism?
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When high explosives are not freely left to be looted, the only people with high explosives will be the terrorists!"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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As was said, yes it is. As I said, these are considered dual use equipment, and hence why they were under inspection, but they were not banned items, just like how Iraq could have missiles but with limited ranges.Originally posted by Japher
Not too rediculous.If you don't like reality, change it! me
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i like the name of the place: Al Qaqaa.
It's like what this report is. A load of caca. No explosives were stolen at all. Those explosives, had they actually ever been there, would have been weapons of mass destruction.
You traitors need to shut up and die.B♭3Comment
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Only when everyone can make bombs is anyone safe from bombsOriginally posted by Ramo
When high explosives are not freely left to be looted, the only people with high explosives will be the terrorists!
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