Explosives were looted after Iraq invasion

subtitle: UN nuclear official cites security lapse

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By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff | October 26, 2004

WASHINGTON -- Iraqi officials reported that thieves looted 377 tons of powerful explosives from an unguarded site after the US-led invasion last year, the top UN nuclear official said yesterday. And a former weapons inspector said he had counted about 100 other unguarded weapons sites that may have been stripped of munitions for use in the wave of attacks against US soldiers and Iraqi civilians.

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''This is not just any old warehouse in Iraq that happened to have explosives in it; this was a leading location for developing nuclear weapons before the first Gulf War," said Gary Milhollin, director of the Wisconsin Project, a nonprofit organization that has followed Iraq's attempts to procure weapons of mass destruction for more than a decade. ''The fact that it had been left unsecured is very, very discouraging. It would be like invading the US in to order to get rid of and not securing Los Alamos or Livermore ."

IF THIS WAS "A LEADING LOCATION FOR DEVELOPING NUCLEAR WEAPONS BEFORE THE FIRST GULF WAR" AND WE WENT THERE TO FIND JUST THAT, ISN'T THIS CRIMINAL INCOMPETANCE? WHY ARE WE THERE IF IT WASN'T TO FIND AND SECURE THIS SHIT BEFORE "NUKULAR WEAPONS RAIN DOWN ON OUR CITIES"????

http://www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2004/10/26/explosives_were_looted_after_iraq_invasion/