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To: sylvester80 who wrote (62968)	10/26/2004 10:51:44 PM
From: mistermj	Respond to of 89467

The loss, according to the Iraqi official quoted in the letter, Mohammed Abbas, occurred "after [April 9] 2003, throughout the theft and looting of the governmental installations, due to lack of security." But one U.N. official who is well versed with monitoring procedures told the Sun that there is no way for the Iraqis to know whether the material was looted at that date or was hustled out of Iraq earlier, during the war. "We are talking about 40 trucks worth of this stuff," the official who asked not to be named told the Sun. "It's a huge operation." State Department spokesman Adam Ereli, however, said that the disappeared material was of small quantities compared to the total number of explosives found in Iraq. Mr. Ereli said that the 377 tons that are unaccounted are out of the almost 400,000 tons of munitions that have been destroyed or secured. "It's important, it's significant, but let's put it in the proper prospective." nysun.com