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Originally Posted by scout
You forget that we had military planes over the entire area [roughly the size of California?] continually. It would be almost impossible for at least 40 truckloads to be loaded and carted off. Simply to load 380 tons of munitions would take at minimum hours, more likely days to complete. With the air cover and all those pilots looking for targets I find it unlikely to believe that it could have been accomplished.
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The contention is that the area was unguarded. You have just described a scenario that claims the area was essentially guarded. I am not familiar with the area and I suspect you are not either, so to state that it is unlikely or likely to be accomplished based on our lack of information on the area doesn't get us anywhere.
But information such as this lends much credence to the probability that the explosives where looted post-Military arrival:
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HMX and RDX are white, crystalline powders:
"Closer to Baghdad, troops at Iraq's largest military industrial complex found nerve agent antidotes, documents describing chemical warfare and a white powder that appeared to be used for explosives.
Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, said troops found thousands of 2-by-5-inch boxes, each containing three vials of white powder....
Initial reports suggest the powder is an explosive, but tests are still being done, a senior U.S. official said"
FoxNews (04.04.03)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,83252,00.html
"In the first of yesterday's discoveries, the 3rd Infantry Division entered the vast Qa Qaa chemical and explosives production plant and came across thousands of vials of white powder, packed three to a box."
Gulf News (04.06.03)
http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/ne...rticleID=83345
"Closer to Baghdad, troops at Iraq's largest military industrial complex found nerve agent antidotes, documents describing chemical warfare and a white powder that appeared to be used for explosives.
Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, said troops found thousands of five-centimetre by 12-centimetre boxes, each containing three vials of white powder, together with documents written in Arabic that dealt with how to engage in chemical warfare.
A senior U.S. official familiar with initial testing said the powder was believed to be explosives. The finding would be consistent with the plant's stated production capabilities in the field of basic raw materials for explosives and propellants."
GlobalSecurity.org (04.05.03)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/ne...eadiness01.htm
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