Posted on 10/28/2004 11:40:32 AM PDT by crushelits
What's this nonsense about vents and stuff?
This makes it sound like they are doors.
From what I have read, it seems more like the intel community warned the IAEA. Now, they are trying to claim credit for the intel. Bloody gits.
These were designed to keep honest people out.
How the hell a site many miles away from this complex with 138 tons of unsealed RDX becomes part of the story is just disgusting and the IAEA should be ashamed of what they are saying.
Now the IAEA indicates that they are going beck to check their notes that they should have at their finger tips ...
This whole story just reeks.
And to think that Ketchup Boy and the Silk Pony want us to entrust our live to these same kinds of bloodyminded bureaucrats. Sleep tight kiddies!
" Does anyone have a picture of one of these IAEA seals? "
I can't get over how flimsy the locks were.
My bike lock looks stronger.
And then, after leaving this small lock on a huge bunker filled with dangerous, potentially world altering explosives-the IKEA group would leave and ask Saddam Hussein to keep an eye on the bunkers for them.
This is unbelieveable.
I read an article in here a few days ago, saying that the US had told the IAEA or UN to destroy what was in those sealed bunker, but the IAEA didn't think it was necessary, but they started moving them to another location, then decided that wasn't good and moved them back, but never did distroy them. I've been looking for that article for two days and not having luck.....does anyone remember reading that one?
IAEA Says It Warned U.S. About Explosives on Oct. 27, 2004
not joking....they use these to "secure" a door. Fox News had some video of it a few days back.....
Are you EFFING kidding me?
Any person with ambition can work around this silly thing.
And I wouldn't doubt if Hussein bribed a few inspectors to get a couple of these things extra.
Imagine a door. Next to each side of the door was a hole. Imagine a cable being stunk from inside the door out the two holes. Then imagine the ends of each cable going through a cable device which tightens (maybe locks). That was it.
I was think a bolt cutter could cut through that cable in about 2 seconds.
Would be nice if we had a picture because my description is lacking a great deal.
For sure!
The seal looks sort of like a cable-lock. Once opened or vborken, it can't be reclosed. It is nothing more than a tamper-indicator.
About like a locked window; it doesn't keep out anyone who wants in, but when you see the broken glass, you know somebody broke in.
They try to make it sound like the "sealing" is like the Egyptians did to the pyramids.
In an earlier article, they said the slats were easy to use to gain access:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1259604/posts
"The documents show IAEA inspectors looked at nine bunkers containing more than 194 tons of HMX at the facility. Although these bunkers were still under IAEA seal, the inspectors said the seals may be potentially ineffective because they had ventilation slats on the sides. These slats could be easily removed to remove the materials inside the bunkers without breaking the seals, the inspectors noted."
The last time the explosives were inventoried was in January of 2003.
Any motivated person could figure out a way to get around those seals and make it look like they werent tampered with.
The IAEA went and only inspected the seals in March of 2003. For all they knew the bunkers were empty.
This has all the makings of a set up. The IAEA, being bought and paid for through the Oil-for-Food Program and knowing the invasion was coming, didn't check the site properly. They knew the stuff was gone.
We need to BEG the Pentagon to show the satellite imagery that I've heard rumors about. ASAP.
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