"...Composition C4: 91% RDX, 9% non-explosive plasticizers. This compound is used in mines and hand grenades..."
RDX is a common military explosive.
Yes, but it's not the super-killing device that DU was waxing panic about the other day, and the NYT's even put into print as "SUPER-high-explosives".
*snort*
How much you want to bet the reason the stuff is missing to begin with is the "French Advisors" that had been in Iraq when we began invading?
In Afghanistan, the Canuks found a weapons cache and soome Froggies ran up and claimed they had control of the area.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1249533/posts
Article and post 1.
Odds that the French have something to do with it?
There were French Embassy staffers assisting in the destruction of documents in Iraq for awhile during the opening days of the push to Baghdad.