Posted on 07/19/2008 6:27:54 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A depot in France from which a large quantity of powerful explosive went missing was poorly guarded, the regional head of security has said.
The storage of 28kg (61lb) of Semtex at the site near Lyon was "not usual and certainly not authorised", Xavier de Fuerst also told the AFP news agency.
A search by anti-terrorist officers is under way, and the manager of the site has been suspended pending an inquiry.
Semtex is favoured by terrorists as it is odourless and difficult to detect.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
I guess it’s Donald Rumsfeld fault. /sarc
...163 jumbo jets in flight.
dumb arses.
They didn’t mention the suspended managers name, but my guess is Ali Mohammad Osamma Akbar or something like that.
Understatement of the year?
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