[CCPlanner]

I recently read a classified report - the unclassified subject line states that the Iraqis had been able to duplicate the IAEA seals and remove explosives in the past. The last real check, then, was in January. Plenty of time to move HMX to Syria.

[P-40]

It was January of 2003 that IAEA did a FULL inspection and inventory. In March of that year they did a spot check, that is, they checked the seals on the bunkers only.


The media has reported on this story from the standpoint that the IAEA all but checked every single ounce of explosives in March 2003...which is a bit different from the IAEA just visiting the place in March 2003 with the last full inspection being in January 2003.

Another poster commented on the Iraqi military duplicating the seals. Wouldn't that be against UN rules? :) :) :)