Gymoor
27-10-2004, 15:03
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/26/iraq.explosives/index.html
Two things that jump out at me:
News reports during the conflict indicated that troops from the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division entered the Al Qaqaa site on April 4, 2003, finding thousands of boxes of white powder that preliminary tests determined was an explosive. The 101st Airborne Division troops arrived six days later.
Well, so they likely were there, at least in part, on April 4th
Russia called on the U.N. Security Council to investigate the issue Tuesday, but the United States said there was no need.
Andrey Denisov, Russian ambassador to the United Nations, told a closed meeting of the council that Russia wants to discuss the missing explosives as well as the return of U.N. weapons inspectors to Iraq.
U.S. Ambassador John Danforth said, "We have in place the Iraq Survey Group, which is equipped to look into all of this."
WTF are we doing turning away an investigation and an offer of weapons inspectors? Wouldn't they help to secure the countless amounts of other explosives and ammunition that is still basically on the loose because we do not have enough troops to look after it all? I mean jeez, Bush says more international help is not possible, and then the UN Ambassador turns away something that could help us. Seriously, wtf???
Two things that jump out at me:
News reports during the conflict indicated that troops from the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division entered the Al Qaqaa site on April 4, 2003, finding thousands of boxes of white powder that preliminary tests determined was an explosive. The 101st Airborne Division troops arrived six days later.
Well, so they likely were there, at least in part, on April 4th
Russia called on the U.N. Security Council to investigate the issue Tuesday, but the United States said there was no need.
Andrey Denisov, Russian ambassador to the United Nations, told a closed meeting of the council that Russia wants to discuss the missing explosives as well as the return of U.N. weapons inspectors to Iraq.
U.S. Ambassador John Danforth said, "We have in place the Iraq Survey Group, which is equipped to look into all of this."
WTF are we doing turning away an investigation and an offer of weapons inspectors? Wouldn't they help to secure the countless amounts of other explosives and ammunition that is still basically on the loose because we do not have enough troops to look after it all? I mean jeez, Bush says more international help is not possible, and then the UN Ambassador turns away something that could help us. Seriously, wtf???