2nd Site With U.N.-Sealed Arms Was Looted

[irancontra]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/international/middleeast/31chemical.html?ex=1099890000&en=bac9082870be3bbd&ei=5006&partner=ALTAVISTA1


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Looters overran an Iraqi complex last year where a bunker holding old chemical weapons was sealed by United Nations monitors, American arms inspectors have reported.

The American inspectors say all of the sealed structures at the Muthanna site, 35 miles northwest of Baghdad, were broken into. But it is unknown if usable chemical warheads were in the bunker, what may have been taken and by whom.

"Clearly, there's a potential concern, but we're unable to estimate the relative level of it because we don't know the condition of the things inside the bunker," said Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for the United Nations arms inspection agency, whose specialists have been barred from Iraq since the invasion.

In a lengthy Oct. 6 report summarizing a fruitless search for banned weapons in Iraq, the inspectors known as the Iraq Survey Group disclosed that widespread looting occurred at Muthanna after the fall of the Iraqi capital in April 2003.

[babylonsister]

1. I remember seeing many sites

in Iraq w/weapons when the imbedded reporters showed their footage. I think they were all over the country; Saddam was a bad guy, after all. And I understand they weren't protected because BushCo didn't realize what the fuck they were getting into or the ramifications thereof. One of the many reasons I despise this admin.
But not for much longer! :headbang: