[Marine_Uncle]

"Wonder where most of the munitions can be traced? Iran perhaps? Syria?"
Original estimates, US Army/CIA where that Iraq had upward 600,000 tons of ordnance. Back in 2004, I cannot remember what month but think it was fall, we had gathered and cateloged some 250,000 tons. How much was destroyed verse guarded, I have no info on. Point is. There is still huge amounts of French,Russian,Bulgarian etc., ordnance, e.g. artillery shells, tank shells, rpg's, mortars etc., hiden. It is going to take a long time to get rid of all this stuff. We have special army units that make it their business to haul this stuff to approved sites for demolition. Yes, sometimes, depending on the nature and place the stuff is found, it is destroyed in place.

[prairiebreeze]

I'm sure you're correct that there are plenty of French and Russian muntions leftover and being discovered. The whole country is really just one big munitions dump.

I thought I read recently that some... either explosives material or weapons were being traced back to Iran and Syrian sources as well.