Thats interesting. I have a vague memory of this. So does this mean this is a "different" 500 tons? Or simply that they didn't get it all the first time?
Any chance of finding the old press coverage at the time?
I remember us bring some of Khadaffi's nuclear equipment to Fort Knox in about that time frame, could this be what we are remembering?
Maybe there's something in the archives of globalsecurity.org or something similar. The wayback machine might, if you knew which news service, year, month, and had alot of time to kill.
I browsed a bit through the Duelfer report by way of global and didn't see it, though it may be mentioned in one of the other reports, or using a search engine other than google.
Skimming through Duelfer, and seeing the headlines from the driveby media in that timeline describing the report showed Bush adminstration being "Almost Completely Wrong On Everything", when the report actually backed up every pertinent issue the administration's - and the late 90s Toon's as well - presented as reason to take Saddam down...well, it made me almost as mad as I am joyful to watch the drive bys stock in a death spiral.
McClatchy itself has lost over 90% of it's net worth since then.
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