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Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Russia Moved Iraq's Explosives Away?

From Drudge:

GERTZ // THURSDAY // WASH TIMES: Russian special forces troops moved many of Saddam Hussein's weapons and related goods out of Iraq and into Syria in the weeks before the March 2003 U.S. military operation, The Washington Times has learned. John A. Shaw, the deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said in an interview that he believes the Russian troops, working with Iraqi intelligence, “almost certainly” removed the high-explosive material that went missing from the Al-Qaqaa facility, south of Baghdad.

According to Glenn Beck, it would take 100 men and 40 dump trucks, working 12 hours a day, about 10 days to haul all the explosives away.
After US forces checked the weapons facility (which was supposed to be guarded by the International Atomic Energy Agency, a UN division), they found that the weapons were gone. The IAEA had decided to 'secure' the compound by putting a chain over the door, and attaching an IAEA seal to the chain. Needless to say, the chain and seal were gone when the US troops arrived.
Interestingly enough, US troops secured the road to and from the compound after leaving the building. This means that, though the building was not secured, there was no way that 40 trucks could travel to and from the compound over 10 days to move the explosives.

It looks like it will turn out that the IAEA, and therefore the UN, is actually responsible for not securing the explosives, rather than the US or the Bush administration. And, considering Drudge's incredible accuracy (believe it or not, he is more accurate than almost any other major source), it is likely that Russia helped move these explosives. I do not know why Russia would do this, or how Russian troops moving explosives in Iraq would go unnoticed, but I get the impression that a second Bush administration would use this to slap the UN and Russia whenever the we feel like they need a good whack in the head.

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