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October 29, 2004

That sound you hear....

...is the noise of Bush's electoral coffin being nailed shut.

weapons inspectors say the video taken on April 18th showing the containers of HXM and RMX explosives at the site 9 days after Bagdhad fell is consistent with his video taken by inspectors from Al Qaqaa.

Read the rest under the fold:

From the New York Times:

Weapons experts familiar with the work of the international inspectors in Iraq say the videotape appears identical to photographs that the inspectors took of the explosives, which were put under seal before the war. One frame shows what the experts say is a seal, with narrow wires that would have to be broken if anyone entered through the main door of the bunker.

The agency said that when it left Iraq in mid-March, only days before the war began, the only bunkers bearing its seals at the huge complex contained the explosive known as HMX, which the agency had monitored because it could be used in a nuclear weapons program. It is now clear that program had ground to a halt.

David Kay is also chiming in:

"The photographs are consistent with what I know of Al-Qaqaa," David A. Kay, a former American official who directed the hunt in Iraq for unconventional weapons and visited the site, told The New York Times. "The damning thing is the seals. The Iraqis didn't use seals on anything. So I'm absolutely sure that's an IAEA seal."

The Russians are now officially pissed at Bush for helping to push rampant speculations that the Russians made off with the RMX and HMX from Al Qaqaa. From the video cited above we can see this was certainly not the case.

It's becoming clearer that there's no more places to pass the buck on this.

Posted by Carla at October 29, 2004 12:50 PM