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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
1) By all accounts other than the NYT, the material was moved before the invasion began.
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Not this one:
At the Pentagon (news - web sites), an official who monitors developments in Iraq said U.S.-led coalition troops had searched Al-Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives, under IAEA seal since 1991, were intact. Thereafter, the site was not secured by U.S. forces, the official said, also speaking on condition of anonymity.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp..._agency_iraq_7
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2) The material at issue was required to be destroyed by Saddam under the umpteen UN Security Council Resolutions that he was ignoring. The IAEA did nothing about it.
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a. Not true; and
b. Irrelevant. Why were they not secured?
I find the adminstration's response less than reassuring:
"There are hundreds of tons of other weapons and munitions missing around the country, and it is impossible for the United States to track down all of them, [a senior administration] official said."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/...ves/index.html
