Salon: Thousands and thousands of potential terrorist attacks

[Dudley_DUright]

Subtitle: A top nuclear-proliferation expert says that the Bush administration's failure to safeguard almost 400 tons of high-tech explosives "borders on criminal negligence."

It could prove to be the "October surprise" that nobody anticipated. While election watchers have speculated that the Bush campaign could announce the capture of Osama bin Laden or terrorist ringleader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the final week of the presidential race instead opened with a bombshell report that a huge cache of sophisticated explosives in Iraq had vanished and likely fallen into the hands of insurgents or terrorists.

Late Sunday, the New York Times reported that nearly 760,000 pounds of the explosive compounds HMX and RDX had disappeared from Saddam Hussein's al-Qaqaa weapons depot -- even though the United States had known that the site contained vast amounts of the high-tech explosives. American officials could not explain why they failed to guard the depot.

Joseph Cirincione, director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, says the destructive consequences of the administration's failure to secure the site could be almost incalculable. "This is thousands and thousands of potential terrorist attacks," Cirincione told Salon. "It's like they knocked off the Fort Knox of explosives."

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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/10/26/explosives/index.html

[ogradda]

1. borders on criminal negligence?

what would criminal negligence be?

[Demeter]

2. I Wonder How Big A Truck They Needed

What density is this explosive material? HOw many units of volume?

[Catfight]

3. 7 more days and hopefully the Trials of Incompetence start! Let's

crucify these war criminals!