I agree
not RDX or HMX. The "white powder that appeared to be used for explosives" mentioned in this release could actually be the explosives the Times was talking about.
I don't agree. The "white powder" was tested and found to be an explosive, but it was not the tagged by the UN material, nor was it identified as HMC or RDX. As Jim Mik reported, our troops with the embedded reporters reported finding large caches of conventional weapons (the white powder falls into that category) but not the 380 tons of HMX or RDX.
The March 2003 inspectors visit is being reported today at least on MSNBC that the RDX or HMX seals were still there, seals not broken.
And even the conventional explosives would not have been left behind w/o either destroying them or taking them in. It's totally unbelievable that the "white powder" would have been tested and identified and then just neglected. just a bunch of balloni.
The real question here is, what happened with 380 Tons of highly explosive material when even the UN couldn't find it shortly before the army got there????