http://www.juancole.com/Thursday, October 28, 2004
Iraqi Officials Deny Early Disappearance of Explosives
Dr. Muhammad Sharaa who leads Iraq's science monitoring department, denies that the 380 tons of high explosives that has gone missing could have been moved in spring of 2003 before or during the war. AFP reports:
"It is impossible that these materials could have been taken from this site before the regime's fall," Mohammed al-Sharaa, who
heads the Science Ministry's site monitoring department, said.
"The officials that were inside this facility (Al-Qaqaa) beforehand confirm that not even a shred of paper left it before the fall."I spoke to them about it and they even
issued certified statements to this effect which the US-led coalition was aware of."
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