The NY Times story actually never stated that there were explosives there when the troops arrived. They do state that the troops found nothing when they arrived, but they've buried that fact under alot of speculation and spin such that they imply that Bush let the explosives get looted. You can bet that they will retract nothing.
I seem to remember this story during the main combat. Our troops searched for these things, and there was a big hullabaloo that we had found WMD in the press briefings..There were supposed to be those explosives there tagged with a IAEA seal but nothing was there. This stuff went missing under the UN's watch you can bet your underwear on it. I hope that we have some hard evidence to prove this because nailing Kerry and the UN is always a great Twofer.
But hey, we all knew it, and predicted it. Let them pay the piper.