Thursday, October 28, 2004

Munitions Crisis

This is Heavy duty reading..take time too link thru all, this is serious global security concern !!. /pd

" Looters stormed the weapons site at Al Qaqaa in the days after American troops swept through the area in early April 2003 on their way to Baghdad" -via NYT

Theres a couple of good SatCom Pics on Al Qaqaa (the site where the munitions went missing).

"While both HMX and RDX can be used in detonating nuclear bombs, there is no indication that whoever took the explosives has materials for building a nuclear weapon. Those materials are more difficult to acquire" Pike said.

HMX /RDX profile statements

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