I, too, am shocked, Shocked, SHOCKED to learn there are (gasp!) explosives missing in Iraq!
Next the Times will reveal that there are thousands and thousands of missing AK-47 "Assault Rifles"?
Like I said in previous posts on other threads. These explosives were gone prior to any US soldiers being on the ground. The morons at the NYT cant even go to FAS and read about the site. The site where the supposed rdx was stored was close to the "Baby Milk" factory bombed in Gulf War I and I would not be surprised that one of the big explosions videotaped from the Rashad/Palestine hotels during the opening evenings of the USAF bombing/ALCM/SLCM offensive toasted this stuff for effect on day one.
http://www.fas.org/irp/gulf/intel/961031/0901pgv_91.txtne.
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/facility/latifiyah.htm
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/iraq/facility/al_qa_qaa.htm