[Clint N. Suhks]

Col. John Peabody, engineer brigade commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, said troops found thousands of five-centimetre by 12-centimetre boxes, each containing three vials of white powder, together with documents written in Arabic that dealt with how to engage in chemical warfare. A senior U.S. official familiar with initial testing said the powder was believed to be explosives. The finding would be consistent with the plant's stated production capabilities in the field of basic raw materials for explosives and propellants.

I believe you are right...but I don't see how thousands of tiny bxes add up to 380 tons. Nor does it prove it were still there April 10.

[cyncooper]

The substance in the "tiny boxes" was not identified as the HMX or RDX at issue.

[michigander]

but I don't see how thousands of tiny bxes add up to 380 tons.

It doesn't.

Nor does it prove it were still there April 10.

That's the point. Given the context of this article (what you believe I was right about?), it adds nothing to the discussion about the tons of disappeared conventional explosives.