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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


26 October 2004 - Iraq Special Weapons News

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US Policy

  • Inquiry Launched Over Missing Explosives in Iraq AFPS 26 Oct 2004 -- Multinational Force Iraq and the Iraq Survey Group are examining facts and circumstances regarding when several hundred tons of explosives went missing from the former Al-Quaqaa military facility in Iraq and where they are now, defense officials said today.
  • U.S. Says Securing All Arms Caches In Iraq 'Impossible' RFE/RL 26 Oct 2004 -- The United States has defended its effort to secure weapons depots in Iraq after the revelation that some 350 tons of explosives went missing from one site.

United Nations

  • Iraq: IAEA Notifies UN About Missing Explosives RFE/RL 26 Oct 2004 -- The United Nation's nuclear watchdog agency has informed the UN Security Council that more than 340 metric tons of explosives have been looted from a previously secured site in Iraq. The agency acted after a newspaper report quoted Iraqi officials' disclosure of the theft, which occurred sometime in the past 18 months. The news quickly became an issue in the U.S. presidential election campaign, with challenger John Kerry accusing the Bush administration of incompetence in Iraq. U.S. officials say they are treating the report seriously but note the difficulty in securing all Iraqi arms sites.

Reconstruction Issues

Foreign Reactions

  • U-S/IRAQ VOA 26 Oct 2004 -- Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is accusing the United States and its coalition partners of being partly to blame for Saturday's deadly ambush of dozens of Iraqi soldiers. U-S defense officials are rejecting that charge but are looking into why the soldiers did not have adequate protection, and whether this and other recent attacks suggest insurgents have infiltrated Iraq's security forces.
  • IRAQ / U-S CAMPAIGN VOA 26 Oct 2004 -- A new public opinion poll shows more Iraqis favor Democratic challenger John Kerry than President Bush, who launched the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein. But more than half of the two-thousand peopled polled throughout Iraq don't care who wins the U.S. presidency in next week's election.

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