Outnumbered U.S. Troops Watched as Iraqi Ammo Site Was Looted

[Terry_M]

Outnumbered U.S. Troops Watched as Iraqi Ammo Site Was Looted

About a dozen American soldiers were guarding the sprawling facility in the weeks after the April 2003 fall of Baghdad when Iraqi looters raided the site, the newspaper quoted a group of unidentified soldiers as saying.

US army reservists and National Guardsmen witnessed the looting and some soldiers sent messages to commanders in Baghdad requesting help, but received no reply, they said.

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The soldiers said they could not confirm that looters took the particularly powerful explosives known as HMX and RDX. One soldier, however, said US forces saw looters load trucks with bags marked Hexamine, which is a key ingredient for HMX.

One senior non-commissioned officer said troops “were running from one side of the compound to the other side, trying to kick people out” and that at least 100 vehicles were at the site waiting for the military to leave so that they could loot the munitions.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3715845

[BOSSHOG]

1. At least the got the timing of this story right.

[katmondoo]

3. I predict -- soon-- the bloodbath will begin

[Barrett808]

5. The bloodbath is ongoing, but when Bush razes Fallujah...

...I expect much of Iraq will rise up, featuring general strikes, more boycotts of the January election, and an increase in attacks...

Buckle up.

[truthisfreedom]

2. we needed this story to break earlier, but we also needed some act-of-god

disasters in diebold voting machine warehouses in certain states to force hand-counted ballots.

[maddezmom]

4. part of the master plan

let them loot for neverending war, and release all the news accounts of looting after Nov 2.

[Mr E McSquare]

6. ????

Couldnt they have just shot at one of these trucks and made it blow up??
Works in the movies!