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To: TimF who wrote (209501)	10/31/2004 7:46:34 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574309

"Securing this particular dump may have been a good idea but it wasn't a national level priority" It probably should have been. After all, they knew exactly where it was and what was in it. Securing it was just a matter of scheduling people to do it. The problem with getting news from the blogosphere is that it is of uneven quality. While the video might not have shown them breaking the seal, the reporter says they did. In addition, David Kay, an individual who should know, identifies the material. Based on a review of the KSTP videotape, former weapons inspector David Kay said late Thursday that the seal is consistent with those used by the International Atomic Energy Agency and that the explosives in the barrel were the type of high-grade explosives missing from the complex. "That's either HMX or RDX," Kay said, referring to the types of explosives. "I don't know of anything else in Al-Qaqaa that was in that form." cnn.com I suppose you could take the tact that this video was faked and unless every barrel in every bunker is tested and validated as RDX or HMX, then it probably contained, say, sugar. But that seems more than a bit contrived. As far as the speculation about Major (couldn't even get his rank right) Pearson's unit destroying the contents of the bunker, they were long gone before the video was shot. They were there 5 days before and didn't stick around.