From the deserts of the south and west to the outskirts of Baghdad, Iraq is
awash in weapons sites — some large, others small;
some guarded, others not. Even after the U.S. military secured some 400,000 tons of munitions, as many as 250,000 tons remain unaccounted for.
...
But with the names of other sites popping up everywhere — al-Mahaweel, Baqouba, Ukhaider, Qaim — experts say the
al-Qaqaa stash is only a tiny fraction of what's buried in the sands of Iraq."There is something truly absurd about focusing on 377 tons," said Anthony Cordesman, a defense analyst and Iraq expert with the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. He contends Iraq's prewar stockpiles "
were probably in excess of 650,000 tons." http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=5&u=/ap/20041031/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_awash_in_weapons
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