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Someone needs to search the IAEA website and look at their Press Releases, Security Council Reports, and other available information. I suspect the IAEA records (pre-invasion) support the claim that Al-QaQaa no longer had the HMX.
http://www.iaea.org/index.html
IAEA Office at the United Nations
1 United Nations Plaza
Room DC-1-1155
New York, NY 10017 USA
Tel: (001) 212-963-6010 or 6011
Fax: (001) 917-367-4046
Email: iaeany@un.org
Headquarters Offices:
International Atomic Energy Agency
P.O. Box 100
Wagramer Strasse 5
A-1400 Vienna, Austria
Tel: (+431) 2600-0
Fax: (+431) 2600-7
In the original NYT article, the author (inadvertently, I now think) put in a line in which the IAEA complains that some of the explosive is being "relocated."
I can no longer find it, but I'm positive I read it in the original article that I read.
In other words, they admitted that SOMEONE IN IRAQ (SADDAM) was relocating WMD trigger explosives to some safe location BEFORE the invasion even began.
This is the key mistake the NYT made in the original.
Where did it go?
...Where Saddam, his son and the cash are now is the subject of speculation. One report cited by The New York Times says a convoy of tractor-trailers crossed into Syria, but the contents of the trucks was unknown. ...
(my emphasis added)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/07/iraq/main552690.shtml?CMP=ILC-SearchStories