Feb. 2003 UN Report: Saddam Moving Explosives From Al-Qaqaa

NewsMax.com ^ | 26 October 2004 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[concretebob]

The United Nations nuclear watchdog group first reported that Saddam Hussein had begun moving stockpiles of explosives from his Al-Qaqaa nuclear weapons facility a month before the U.S. invaded Iraq.

[concretebob]

Couldn't tell if this had been posted yet or not.

[Trippin]

Good Lord. If this is true, Kerry and his IAEA friend is going to be roasted.

[doc11355]

Pass this on to Rush and Sean!

[BreitbartSentMe]

Ha-Ha

</ that Simpson's character>

[MEG33]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1258102/posts

What does it take to move 380 tons?

[Rodm]

Just shot this over to Drudge.

[finnman69]

UN Report in 2003 notes Iraq "lost" HMX & converted remaining HMX stocks into "industrial explosive"

http://www.iraqwatch.org/un/iaea/iaea-elbaradei-unscbriefing-010903.htm

January 9, 2003 | MOHAMMED ELBARADEI

Other Dual Use Items

The relocation and consumption of some dual use materials has been among the questions raised in connection with Iraq's backlog of semi-annual declarations. The high explosive "HMX" is a prime example of such material. The removal of Agency seals on the HMX and the declared relocation and consumption of some of the HMX must be explained and documented by Iraq before the Agency can reach a conclusion with regard to the use of such material. The Iraqi declarations indicate that out, of the 228 tonnes of HMX available in Iraq at the end of 1998, 196 remained at the facility where the HMX was previously under IAEA seal. Iraq also declared that it had blended the remaining 32 tonnes with sulphur and turned them into 45.6 tonnes of "industrial explosive" provided mainly to cement plants for mining. The material balance, current stock, whereabouts and final use of such material are currently being investigated.

[COEXERJ145]

Just shot this over to Drudge.

I wonder how long it will take him to put it up?

[smonk]

hmmmm. if memory serves, we were bogged down in the freaking security council trying to beg the damn french to sign off on some sort of resolution that wasn't an absolute sell out.

so much for "rush to war". if kerry wants to criticize bush for the missing explosives, he has no one to blame but himself; if the president wasn't bending over backwards trying to make the multilateralists in the congress happy, we'd have caught saddam flat footed with this stuff, and who knows what else.

[conservativepoet]

I see in the distance the NYT sinking into the abyss of Kerryism. If this information gets coverage, Kerry's sunk too.

[Se7eN]

[JediForce]

I'm sorry folks...but the scumbags in the media are going to play the original New York Times story till the election. Even ABC News Radio is playing this as the real deal. Unless we can hit these basta##s back hard and soon..they will ride this all the way. No bit of evidence or questions seem to change the story in the lame-stream media...they still run it as gospel.

We can not let these people win.

[gov_bean_ counter]

I hope that Bush points out that these sequences of events should have been know by Kerry through the Senate Intelligence Committee.

[faithincowboys]

OOOOOOH!!!

Kerry looks like a bigger a-hole than usual!!

[michaelbfree]

Notice Elbaradai(sp) issued this report - same guy that leaked the fact it was missing to NYT....

[basil]

Seems to me that if they could move this stuff, they could also move WMD's.

[Shqipo]

Bingo! I hate this notion of a "Rush to War." A year of giving the UN opportunity to impede a timely destruction of Saddam's regime haunts us to this day. Was the IAEA even allowed in to Iraq prior to GWB putting 150K US soldiers on the border? Our troops would still be out in the desert fighting scorpions and scraping sand out of their Abram tanks if the UN had its way. Arch nemesis France probably donated the trucks to Saddam to move the explosives and WMD's to Syria.

[John Lenin]

I smell the Clintons behind this.

[Salvation]

Hmmm.

Will anyone rescue Kerry on this one then? It appears he is really out on a limb by running an ad on this.

[Peach]

Get a load of this!