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Guys guys guys:
SEMMER DOWN NOW
Go to your fabled Eyewintess Five News website: http://kstp.com/article/stories/S3723.html?cat=1
watch the video.
And make up your own mind.
All I can say is that I can't understand why it is a big suprise to some of you that ammo was found at an ammo depot
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The big surprise isn't about the fact that there is ammo at an ammo dump ... the big surprise is the fact that the US was warned about the ammo dumps and despite this warning the ammo dumps were left unsecured. It's a pattern of incompetance such as this which provides a rational explanation for why the troops encounter 50+ attacks a day, the majority being road side bombs.
Is retarded behavour such as this in some way acceptable to you?
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320 tons only a fraction of missing weapons
U.S. official says "ample evidence" exists that looted arms are being used to attack troops.
By Jonathan S. Landay
Knight Ridder
Washington — The more than 320 tons of missing Iraqi high explosives at center stage in the U.S. presidential election are only a fraction of the weapons-related material that's disappeared in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion last year.
Huge amounts of arms and ammunition were stolen from military sites, and there's "ample evidence" that Iraqi insurgents are firing looted weapons at U.S. troops and using some of them in car bombs and improvised explosive devices, said a senior U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
U.N. officials also are concerned about the disappearance of sensitive equipment and controlled materials that could be used to develop nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.
"If this equipment is finding itself on the open market, then anybody with money can buy it," said Dimitri Perricos, acting head of the U.N. Monitoring and Verification Commission, the U.N. weapons inspection agency.
The CIA has convened a "mini task force" of experts to assess precisely what equipment is gone and what threat it could pose if it fell into the wrong hands, said two U.S. officials.
In a new disclosure, the senior U.S. military officer and another U.S. official, who also spoke on condition he not be identified because of the sensitivity of the matter, said that an Iraqi working for U.S. intelligence alerted U.S. troops stationed near the al Qaqaa weapons facility that the installation was being looted shortly after the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003.
But, they said, the troops took no action to halt the pillaging.
"That was one of numerous times when Iraqis warned us that ammo dumps and other places were being looted and we weren't able to respond because we didn't have anyone to send," said a senior U.S. military officer who served in Iraq.
An ABC television station in Minnesota reported that one of its camera crews embedded with the 101st Airborne Division might have filmed some of the high explosives after arriving on al Qaqaa's perimeter on April 18. Experts at the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. agency that was monitoring al Qaqaa because the missing explosives could have been used to trigger a nuclear weapon, are examining the videotape.
The disclosure contradicted the Bush administration's suggestion that Saddam's regime may have removed the high explosives between the last U.N. inspection of al Qaqaa on March 15 and the arrival of 3rd Infantry Division troops on April 3. The U.S.-backed interim Iraqi government contends that the high explosives disappeared sometime after the fall of Baghdad on April 9.
The Defense Department on Thursday released a satellite photograph taken on March 17 that shows two trucks parked at the al Qaqaa complex, and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said U.S. reconnaissance would have detected any effort to loot the complex.
Many U.S. officials and experts blame the massive disappearance of Iraqi weapons materials on the Pentagon's failure to anticipate the waves of lawlessness after Saddam's ouster.
http://www.news-leader.com/today/1029-320tonsonl-214035.html
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Last edited by occrider on Oct-29-2004 at 15:50
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