They are not re-reporting he story. The date they mention is the date the UN took inventory before and between that date and now the stuff is gone. So they would report on the end of the period which is ... now.
fredster said it pretty well. Was your defense the "several caches" comment?
Oh so now it isn't a problem? You were the one going bananas over the conventional arms bought by Iraq. But indeed I'd say this is much worse. The US is supposed to be there to put and end to terrorism. How do you figure people stealing high explosives is gonna help in that area? Now we don't have a government owning the stuff (a government that could/would not threaten the US BTW), but we have terrorists roaming the place with these high explosives. You don't see how that is worse than Saddam buying a few anti aircraft missiles?
perhaps you missed the
The items missing are powders used in setting up the explosive action of warheads. You may have heard of them by their common name, WMD's. Since Iraq CLEARLY
doesn't possess WMD's, the theft of these powders amounts to a non-issue now.
In fact, the area in question was supposed to be under U.N. guard when the items in question either were or were not there.
This story is the equivalent of the DUI story that "broke" (is it really considered breaking a story if it's known about months prior to the story airing?) on the eve of the last election here that was unable to snipe the election for Gore
Who knows. They did sell them plenty of stuff before the sanctions, but they would have told the UN about it.
There were things going on there that you previously stated they were doing "to protect investments in the area". There were also weapons being sold to Iraq, violating the sanctions. Now you are telling ME that "they would have told the UN about it". I must be a kettle, because you just called me black.
Cooter, the explosive power of the items in question could indeed cause trembling of the ground. To use the phrase "could cause an earthquake" is a bit of hyperbole. If we could cause earthquakes, we wouldn't need weapons during war, we'd just start an earthquake and send our guys in when we set it off
They could cause explosions IF used with a warhead. Since they have no WMD's, this is a "mute" point
Or is it a moo point? As in....even a cow doesn't see the point in this re-release of information over a year old...although even a cow could see that this is, indeed, a re-release of information