[Fatalis]

Duelfer also said U.N. weapons inspectors recommended in 1995 that the high explosives be destroyed because of their potential use in a nuclear weapons program.

The International Atomic Energy Agency instead ordered the explosives stored in sealed bunkers 30 miles south of the Iraqi capital. The last time the IAEA verified that the bunkers were still sealed was in March of last year, about a month before the first U.S. troops moved into the complex as they pushed toward Baghdad.

So the IAEA is responsible for the explosives not being destroyed in the first place.

Yah, then sanctions were working. The UN had everything under control. You betcha.

[Happy2BMe]

"So the IAEA is responsible for the explosives not being destroyed in the first place."

It would have been interesting to see where most of those EX were manufactured.

France? Russia?