Naaaah. This report has been floating around for a while.
Believe me, that stuff wasn't "looted". One has to do a lot of organizing to move that material. Probably was already long gone before the war started.
We're talking particularly sophisticated high explosives. Many of the attacks have been used with everything but.
yes, but none of those truths are important for the Times to make a story out of this. they float some story about missing explosives on Monday, then on Wednesday, something big blows up in iraq that kills 100+ Americans. they tie the two stories together: "the missing explosives were used to launch the attack". they've got themselves an October Surprise.