10-27-2004, 12:35 PM
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Originally Posted by catzmeow";p="
PUtting a seal over a door and then leaving isn't "securing" dangerous materials, in spite of what IAEA may call it.
Catz
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It was secure by the time the IAEA were told to leave by the US military and teh Bush admin did nothing to ensure it was secure - That's the point
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The explosives were housed in storage bunkers at Al-Qaqaaa. U.N. nuclear inspectors placed fresh seals over the bunker doors in January 2003. The inspectors visited Al-Qaqaa for the last time on March 15, 2003 and reported that the seals were not broken therefore, the weapons were still there at the time. The team then pulled out of the country in advance of the invasion
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Lt. Gen. William Boykin, the Pentagon's deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, said that on May 27, 2003, a U.S. military team specifically looking for weapons went to the site but did not find anything with IAEA stickers on it.
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http://www.canada.com/news/world/sto...1-74215300c10a
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When troops from the 101st Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade arrived at the Al-Qaqaa base a day or so after other coalition troops seized Baghdad on April 9, 2003, there were already looters throughout the facility, Lt.-Col. Fred Wellman, deputy public affairs officer for the unit, told The Associated Press.
The soldiers "secured the area they were in and looked in a limited amount of bunkers to ensure chemical weapons were not present in their area," Wellman wrote in an e-mail message to The Associated Press. "Bombs were found but not chemical weapons in that immediate area.
"Orders were not given from higher to search or to secure the facility or to search for HE type munitions, as they (high-explosive weapons) were everywhere in Iraq," he wrote.
The 101st Airborne was apparently at least the second military unit to arrive at Al-Qaqaa after the U.S.-led invasion began. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told the Washington Post that the 3rd Infantry Division reached the site around April 3, fought with Iraqi forces and occupied the site. They left after two days, headed to Baghdad, he told the newspaper for Wednesday's editions
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