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Originally Posted by D Rice
GERTZ // THURSDAY // WASH TIMES: Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned. John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, “almost certainly” removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad.
This is from drudge real intresting
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That doesn't help explain what the thousands of containers of explosives were that was reported April 4th + 5th, as I mentioned 2 posts ago.
And another one:
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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. The engineers also found stocks of atropine and pralidoxime, also known as 2-PAM chloride, which can be used to treat exposure to nerve agents but is also used to treat poisoning by organic phosphorus pesticides. Alongside those materials were documents written in Arabic that, as interpreted at the scene, appeared to include discussions of chemical warfare.
This morning, however, investigators said initial tests indicated the white powder was not a component of a chemical weapon. "On first analysis it does not appear to be a chemical that could be used in a chemical weapons attack," Col. John Peabody, commander of the division's engineering brigade, told a Reuters reporter with his unit.
From here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...¬Found=true
Which was detailed here:
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.
From here: http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/ne...eadiness01.htm
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So another story from Drudge which attempts to refute the increasingly probable reality that the explosives were looted post-U.S. military, a story which is coming from the Wasington Times quoting a single Pentagon official, claiming RUSSIA took the explosives .... is not compelling.