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bling · 10-28-2004, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by quicksteal

Vials do not weigh 100 pounds each. They found "thousands", so say they found 10 thousand. We're talking about 380 tons of explosives, which is near 800,000 pounds. If there were 10,000 vials, then each one would have to weigh around 80 pounds each to consist of the explosives that the IAEA are talking about. It has been reported that the containers containing explosives had been sealed with designated stickers, and none of those stickers had been found at any time that coalition troops searched the area.

More on what was found, including pictures (thanks Booboo):

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A 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS crew in Iraq shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein was in the area where tons of explosives disappeared, and may have videotaped some of those weapons.

Using GPS technology and talking with members of the 101st Airborne Division, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has determined the crew embedded with the troops may have been on the southern edge of the Al Qaqaa installation, where the ammunition disappeared. The news crew was based just south of Al Qaqaa, and drove two or three miles north of there with soldiers on April 18, 2003.

"We weren't quite sure what were looking at, but we saw so much of it and it didn't appear that this was being secured in any way," said photojournalist Joe Caffrey. "It was several miles away from where military people were staying in their tents".

More: http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S3723.html?cat=1

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I'm not very confident in the validity of the Russia story either, especially since no one in the national media (including Fox News) has taken to it. It's more important to wait and see right now, rather than blame the Bush administration for "losing" the weapons. I've got a feeling that in time, we'll realize that the weapons were gone already. Just think about it--we're watching them through the air and by satelllite, driving around nearby, and nobody notices 380 tons of material being moved? It just doesn't fit to me.

I don't believe any one of us is in any position to know how possible it would have been for someone to come along and take them without our military understanding what was taking place. If anything, the chaos in the immediate aftermath of a war would suggest anything is possible. Sure, it might be accurate to state that we were guarding the area simply because we were around the area and therefore the explosives could not have been removed - but one could just as easily claim, as the crux of this discussion does, that no U.S. Military was really paying attention.