[Blood of Tyrants]

From what I have read and heard, the seals meant nothing because there were huge ventilation slats in the sides of the building that could easily be removed.

[Mia T]

exactly!

[snooker]

Yep and I know the Iraqis under Saddam Hussein wouldn't want to break any IAEA seal. That way they could just drive by and say, yep she's still sealed.

Also I doubt the Iraqis would have substituted the real stuff for sand.

[Lance Romance]

From what I have seen the soldiers, I believe Rush played a clip of one today, said that there were no IAEA seal when they were there. Each seal has a number, so I can imagine they can be traced to an area.

Time for a little Freeper gumshoe-ing.

[secretagent]

From what I have read and heard, the seals meant nothing because there were huge ventilation slats in the sides of the building that could easily be removed.

The IAEA has a response to that point:

ABC said the inspection report noted that the seals at Al-Qaqaa may have been useless because the storage bunkers had ventilation slats on the sides that could have been removed to give looters access to the explosives.

But Fleming said the inspectors had also checked the ventilation slats to ensure they had not been tampered with, and that they concluded "the confinement was sufficient" as long as the site was regularly checked. They could no longer do that once they pulled out just before the invasion.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/world/2871177

According to the above, IAEA spokesman Fleming says they could tell if the vents got breached.

I'd like more details on that. See if David Blaine could fool the IAEA, and get in through the vents without detection.