ANOTHER weapons site unguarded, looted in Iraq

[Bluebear]

"Brilliant", Mr. Cheney?

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Looters unleashed last year by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq overran a sprawling desert complex where a bunker sealed by U.N. monitors held old chemical weapons, American arms inspectors report.

Charles Duelfer's arms teams say all U.N.-sealed structures at the Muthanna site were broken into. If the so-called Bunker 2 was breached and looted, it would be the second recent case of restricted weapons at risk of falling into militants' hands.

Officials are unsure whether this latest episode points to a threat of chemical attack, since it isn't known if usable chemical warheads were in the bunker, what may have been taken and by whom.

"Clearly, there's a potential concern, but we're unable to estimate the relative level of it because we don't know the condition of the things inside the bunker," said Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for the U.N. arms inspection agency in New York, whose specialists have been barred from Iraq since the invasion.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=24&u=/ap/20041030/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_looted_chemical_site

[ogradda]

1. what the hell are we over there for anyway?

they just plunk people over there and hope they dodge the car bombs? no one in charge at abu ghraib, no one in charge of securing weapons i'm getting pretty sick of all this shit:wtf:

[jimshoes]

2. If we went in there supposedly

to look for dangerous weapons, but we didn't look for dangerous weapons and instead secured the oil ministry, something tells me we really went in there for the oil.

[Bluebear]

3. Stop thinking so clearly!