Were Explosives Used in Jordan from the Unguarded al-Qaqaa Dump?

[ignatzmouse]

It has been reported that the explosives strapped to Iraqi Sajida Mubarek Atrous al-Rishawi, the woman who failed to explode in the Jordan hotel, are RDX, a dangerous military grade high explosive that requires a sophisticated triggering device. Scary enough, but the bigger question that is going unasked and unanswered is where did these Iraqis get the RDX? It ain't something you can make, and it sure ain't something that is readily obtainable outside the military.

There's a real probability that these bomb vests derived from some of the tons of missing RDX and HMX from al-Qaqaa or one of Saddam's other weapons storage facilities. Recall that the story broke in the waning days of 2004 election of how the Bush administration's lack of planning and obsession with WMD's left these facilities unguarded after American troops cut through the IAEA seals and locks. Not finding WMD's, they quickly vamoosed to Baghdad. Soon after, reporters witnessed Iraqi civilians looting the sites and filling their pick-ups with the material. After the election, the story quickly became deemed old news and was discarded by the happy-go-lucky mainstream press.

However, the revelation that Iraqis not only have the material as feared but have now used it on allies in the region underscores the absolute criminal negligence engaged in by this administration's drum beat for war. All they took was their ideology. They blindly and willingly forged ahead (in more ways than one). They forgot the plan. They concocted a rationale. They took no safeguards. They accept no accountability. If the missing tons of military grade explosives are now not only in the hands of people who would harm us but also in the hands of those who know how to use them, it is damn well time for accountability -- not only in manipulation of intelligence in the lead-up to war but in the very execution of the war they so insisted upon.

[TheDebbieDee]

1. Ahhhhhhhhh! I'd forgotten all about that.

The fact that these munitions were left unguarded was a subject covered up and distracted from by the * admin during the last few weeks of last year's Presidential Camapign.

There was speculation then that these missing 400,000 tons of explosives would be used to make bombs for terrorists.