Hey, it's even worse than we thought.
As mentioned here last Tuesday the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had reported that entire facilities of equipment which the IAEA had under seal during their highly successful inspection and monitoring program in Iraq, but which US/coalition and then interim Iraqi government officials refused them continued access to, had subsequently disappeared. These were mostly pieces of "dual use" equipment which could be used in setting up uranium/plutonium enrichment programs or otherwise be used in developing nuclear weapons. Well, this morning I awoke to the news that in addition to this equipment, some 350 metric tons of high explosives are also missing. The IAEA had held back this additional information in order to give US & Iraqi forces some time to possibly locate the materials, but are reporting this formally to the U.N. Security Council today.
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