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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (63481)10/28/2004 12:06:37 PM
From: Ron  Read Replies (2) of 89467
 
IAEA Says It Warned U.S. About Explosives
By WILLIAM J. KOLE, Associated Press Writer

VIENNA, Austria - The U.N. nuclear agency said Thursday it warned the United States about the vulnerability of explosives stored at Iraq (news - web sites)'s Al-Qaqaa military installation after another facility — Iraq's main nuclear complex — was looted in April 2003.
Melissa Fleming, a spokeswoman for the International Atomic Energy Agency, told The Associated Press that U.S. officials were cautioned directly about what was stored at Al-Qaqaa, the main high explosives facility in Iraq.

Some 377 tons of high explosives are now missing from the facility, said by Iraqi officials to have been taken by looters. Questions have arisen about what the United States knew about Al-Qaqaa and what it did to secure the site.

Fleming did not say which officials were notified or exactly when, but she said the IAEA — which had put storage bunkers at the site under seal just before the war — alerted the United States after the Tuwaitha nuclear complex was looted.

"After we heard reports of looting at the Tuwaitha site in April 2003, the agency's chief Iraq inspectors alerted American officials that we were concerned about the security of the high explosives stored at Al-Qaqaa," she told the AP.

"It is also important to note that this was the main high explosives storage facility in Iraq, and it was well-known through IAEA reports to the Security Council," Fleming said.
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Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz should be sent to Iraq post haste to look for those explosives, on foot. Oh let's be generous and let them take a couple of bomb-sniffing dogs......
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