Reply #28: write CNN and complain [View All]

[SoCalDemocrat]

Write their sponsors too.

How about this?


http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2004-10-25-missing-explosives_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA

Mohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, notified the Security Council on Monday, two weeks after informing U.S. officials that the materials were missing. Before the war, the explosives were being monitored by the IAEA because they can be used in nuclear bombs to trigger a nuclear explosion.

The disappearance of the high explosives is the latest and perhaps most striking evidence of Saddam Hussein's immense prewar stockpile of conventional weapons and the failure by the U.S. military and its allies to secure those weapons during the rush to topple Saddam's regime and in the chaotic aftermath of that initial campaign.

The explosives constitute a fraction of the conventional weapons that were scattered across Iraq at storage sites, at ammo dumps and in non-military stashes.

Since the end of the major combat phase of the Iraq war on May 1, 2003, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has destroyed 178,000 tons of munitions and secured an additional 150,000 tons.

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