At the Pentagon, an official who monitors developments in Iraq said U.S.-led coalition troops had searched Al-Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives, which had been under IAEA seal since 1991, were intact. The site was not secured by U.S. forces, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
I can't view the video of the report but this article doesn't say what Drudge is reporting.
What am I missing?
NBC News: Miklaszewski: “April 10, 2003, only three weeks into the war, NBC News was embedded with troops from the Army's 101st Airborne as they temporarily take over the Al Qakaa weapons installation south of Baghdad. But these troops never found the nearly 380 tons of some of the most powerful conventional explosives, called HMX and RDX, which is now missing. The U.S. troops did find large stockpiles of more conventional weapons, but no HMX or RDX, so powerful less than a pound brought down Pan Am 103 in 1988, and can be used to trigger a nuclear weapon. In a letter this month, the Iraqi interim government told the International Atomic Energy Agency the high explosives were lost to theft and looting due to lack of security. Critics claim there were simply not enough U.S. troops to guard hundreds of weapons stockpiles, weapons now being used by insurgents and terrorists to wage a guerrilla war in Iraq.” (NBC’s “Nightly News,” 10/25/04)
It's important to distinguish here between conventional ammo etc and the HMX and RDX. No one disputes the fact that there were conventional weapons at Al Qakka. The uproar in all the MSM and DNC outlets was based on the incorrect assumption that the Army found RDX and HMX and did nothing to secure it. As is pointed out in the above report- when the 101st arrived- IT WAS GONE. Make sense now?
The official is full of crap. That's what you're missing. This NBC report shows that the explosives weren't there when the coalition-led forces got there in the first place! The anonymous official (pictured in 736) is full of SeeBS.