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To: combjelly who wrote (209484)	10/31/2004 1:18:24 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1574325

C4 and Semtex are made from RDX... TNT isn't as powerful. TNT is powerful enough to do the job. RDX is not several times more powerful then TNT. If you need a pound of RDX and can't get it maybe you use 1 1/4 or 1 1/2 pounds of TNT. There ere plenty of explosives of all types all over Iraq and there still are. Securing this particular dump may have been a good idea but it wasn't a national level priority, with thousands of other weapons caches, and at the time a heavy concern about chemical and bio weapons. Securing ordianry weapons and explosives simply isn't a national command responsbility. Its not "well down on the list", its not on the list at all at the level of the president. That type of stuff is decided at a much lower level. 377 tons of explosives takes a number of large trucks to move, we had enough soliders and aircraft in the area to notice any such movement after American soliders first arrived in the area on April 3 2003. If there was any HDX left it is likely that it was dealt with foxnews.com As for the news video that is supposedly evidence of the explosives being at Al-Qaqaa "The famous video taken by local TV station KSTP is almost laughable. It was filmed on April 18; it shows soldiers inspecting and opening certain containers; but those containers are irrelevant, as they are not the ones suspected of containing the RDX and HMX at issue. The only possibly relevant footage--we still don't have confirmation of where the KSTP film was shot--shows the outside of a building with a seal on the door. Neither the troops nor the reporters broke the seal and entered the building, so we have no idea whatsoever what was inside. It is entirely possible that the RDX and HMX were already gone at that time; it is equally possible--assuming this is the right building--that they were there, but were destroyed by Captain Pearson's unit shortly thereafter. The video, in short, tells us nothing at all." powerlineblog.com

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