A Look at Some Top Weapons Sites in Iraq

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AL-QAQAA: Former Iraqi military installation 30 miles south of Baghdad. Iraq told the U.N. nuclear agency that 377 tons of HMX, RDX and PETN high explosives went missing after the fall of Baghdad on April 9, 2003, due to a lack of security at the vast facility.


AL-MAHAWEEL: Storage facility 30 miles outside the main Al-Qaqaa site. Most of the RDX explosives under Al-Qaqaa's jurisdiction was stored here. Site was not under International Atomic Energy Agency seal, but agency inspectors monitored the facility and visited it on Jan. 15, 2003 to verify the RDX was intact.



BAQOUBA: Iraq's 2nd Military College 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. Human Rights Watch said it told U.S. officials on May 9, 2003, about hundreds of warheads containing high explosives being looted daily by armed men. Group says site still was not secured when it left the area 10 days later.



UKHAIDER: Ammunition storage area 75 miles south of Baghdad. U.N. inspectors found 11 empty chemical warheads in "excellent" condition there in January 2003. Two U.S. aid workers say they reported looting at Ukhaider in October 2003 but were told the U.S. military didn't have enough troops to seal the site.