U.S. military: Iraqi munitions sites unsecured

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Tue, Sep. 30, 2003

U.S. military: Iraqi munitions sites unsecured
By Lowell Bergman and Eric Schmitt
NEW YORK TIMES

Senior U.S. military officials say that as much as 650,000 tons of ammunition remains at thousands of sites used by the former Iraqi security forces, and that much of it has not been secured and will take years to destroy.

The scope of the problem is much larger than the Pentagon acknowledged three weeks ago, when senior military officials insisted that all known munitions sites in Iraq had been secured.

The enormous scale of the problem is illustrated in an infrared videotape of a sprawling, unguarded Iraqi air base taken by an Army helicopter crew in June that shows several huge hangars stripped bare of their roofing and siding, revealing bombs, missiles and other weaponry stacked dozens of feet high.

On the videotape, a copy of which was provided to the New York Times by a U.S. official in Baghdad, a crewman said: "It looks like there's hundreds of warheads or bombs." (snip/...)

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/news/6895797.htm

[leftchick]

1. you mean that HUGE weapons cache found last week...

(spalshed all over tv like it was WMD!!)was a teeney drop in the bucket compared to what is really out there? I am shocked, shocked I tell you! :eyes:

[xchrom]

2. the status quo

is incapable of gettting the story straight.
between a corrupt executive branch and the get rich at the tax payers expence pentagon -- truth becomes expendable.