What does it take to move 380 tons?Superman?
Just damn.
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It requires 30,400 armloads, at 25 pounds per armload, to move this amount of explosives. If you assume that one trip to the truck and back takes one minute (I timed myself from my living room to the end of my driveway and back at 59.6 seconds), then one man could load 1,000 pounds into a pickup truck every 40 minutes. That one man, assuming he worked 24 and 7 could load those trucks in slightly over 21 days.
If we increase the number of people to 10 and double the load of the pickups to 2,000 pounds, then it would take 51 hours of non-stop labor to move the explosives out of the ammo dump. But this assumes a never-ending supply of pickup trucks arriving at the facility every 8 minutes for over two straight days. 100 people could haul off the ammo in a little over five hours, but it would require a fresh truck every 48 seconds. Neither of the latter two scenarios is very plausible.
Let’s assume instead of carrying the ammunition to the trucks, the terrorist convey it “fire brigade style.” If the distance from ammunition to truck is 100 feet, then it would require 20 people passing 25 pounds of explosives at a time down the line from person to person. At the rate of one load every 5 seconds, it would take only three minutes and 20 seconds to fill a truck with 1,000 pounds of explosives. At that rate the entire stash could be carried off in 42 hours. But, again, it’s implausible because it would require 18 fresh trucks per hour for almost two days straight.
Keep in mind all these numbers only consider the loading of the ammunition. You have an equally labor-intensive task at the off-loading site. In short, it’s inconceivable that this amount of ammunition was spirited away undetected in an area where US troops were operating in the time that the UN, the New York Times, and CBS would have us believe. Something is fishy about this whole story.
a whole bunch of democrats
Sorry, it wasn't the Pentagon it was the UN itself.
Here is a link to the whole story and a few snippets.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6323933/
On March 15, said Melissa Fleming, a spokeswoman for the IAEA, “the seals on the doors on the bunkers were checked at many of the bunkers to see if they were still there and hadn’t been tampered with, and that was the case.”
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The Iraq Survey Group discovered that the stockpiles of HMX and RDX were missing on May 27, seven weeks after the last visit by U.S. troops.
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Lt. Col. Fred Wellman, the unit’s spokesman, appeared to confirm NBC’s report in an e-mail message Tuesday to The Associated Press, saying the brigade did not have orders to search for the explosives that Iraqi officials say were stolen.
The soldiers “secured the area they were in and looked in a limited amount of bunkers to ensure chemical weapons were not present in their area,” Wellman wrote. “Bombs were found but not chemical weapons in that immediate area.
“Orders were not given from higher to search or to secure the facility or to search for HE type munitions [high-explosive weapons], as they were everywhere in Iraq,” he wrote.
What does it take to move 380 tons?Superman?
Just damn.
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SEE
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1256476/posts
Also
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/002869.php
He has some interesting estimates!!!
Oh, shoot, you guys are getting way too carried away with all the picky details of how hard it would be to move the stuff. You're supposed to simply swallow what the NYT puts out, aren't you??? In the old days no one questioned them.....
10 Semis. Maybe fewer. A couple of hours to load each one using forklifts (carry in, carry out) and relatively unlimited slave labor. Drive to Syria, shoot the slaves for the sake of tidiness.
Assuming they ever existed.
My BAD
I forgot to tell you that the fully loaded B747-400 DID NOT have Michael Mooooooore in it.
I apologise for the error!
Using your numbers, we should have attacked Iraq at least one to two months EARLIER to secure these Weapons of Semi Mass Destruction.
I SEE THE LOGIC NOW!!!
At that time Kerry was still FOR the war in Iraq, before he voted against it! He must have used Edwards vaunted psychic channeling powers to know that we needed to be there then, but not later.
Or maybe a train.
A Klingon Bird of Prey, properly modified, can beam up 400 tons in a matter of seconds.
The big fat liar Mike Moore, could put it on his fat back and do it in half the time, but thanks for the effort you put into it.
There was never any explosives in that area, I swear to that. signed... Baghdad Bob, good friend of chemical Ali
No sweat...
Achmed and his brother Saeed, using his half-ton
Toyota, no doubt made 760 secret nighttime trips there,
so they wouldn't be noticed by our troops or predator drones.
The good news is that now that the scrawny pair has
loaded AND unloaded 380 TONS of stuff, they are ready
to take over Arnold Schwarznegger's former body building
business.
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