[lugsoul]

That's creative. First, the article is flat-out wrong about when US forces 1st arrived at the site. I'd say the interviews with US forces at the site a week earlier establish that. 2nd, the official report about "32 bunkers and 87 buildings" says that this search was conducted by May 27, rather than on or about April 10. Creative editing by the reporter here. On that, and on the entire argument presented by many here (though, to your credit, not you) that this article proves the material was missing before March 8, I fall back on an old maxim - If you have to stretch the truth that far to make your point, your point probably isn't valid.

[ex 98C MI Dude]

It is simply not possible that the explosives were moved after the Army had been there. To move 380 tons of anything requires large trucks, and we were stopping anything with wheels for months after the fall of Saddam. If it was on the road, we stopped and searched it.

So it isn't possible that the explosives were there when the war began. They had to have been moved prior to the official start of hostilities, but after the UN had been to the site.