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Originally Posted by barney-fife";p="
"U.N. weapons inspectors went repeatedly to the vast al Qa Qaa complex -- most recently on March 8 -- but found nothing during spot visits to some of the 1,100 buildings at the site 25 miles south of Baghdad."
What, they missed 380 cubic metric tons of explosives? Or, perhaps it had already been moved. But that doesn't fit the demo template, so that couldn't be right.
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Are you reading-challenged as well, barney-fife?
The context of that quote is that they did not find the sort of things that the 3rd Infantry troops did on April 3rd (namely chemical warfare documents and antidotes, and some sort of explosive powder) during the spot checks they did between January (their last full inspection) and March, 2003. The implication is that the IAEA either missed those items during spot visits or those items were moved to Al Qaqaa after March 8th. See the paragraph before your quote:
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Closer to Baghdad, troops at Iraq's largest military industrial complex found nerve agent antidotes, documents describing chemical warfare and a white powder that appeared to be used for explosives.
UN weapons inspectors went repeatedly to the vast al Qa Qaa complex, most recently on March 8. But they found nothing during spot visits to some of the 1,100 buildings at the site 40 kilometres south of Baghdad.
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The IAEA found "nothing" as in "nothing new, nothing banned or undocumented".
They did verify that all the documented materials in question were still under seal. But we know that from other articles. This article does not even address the explosives in question.