Iraq weapons cashes still being found
New York Times:
"Senior American military officials say that as much as 650,000 tons of ammunition remains at thousands of sites used by the former Iraqi security forces, and that much of it has not been secured and will take years to destroy."
"...The daunting task facing the military is illustrated in an infrared videotape of a sprawling, unguarded Iraqi air base taken by an Army helicopter crew in June that shows several huge hangars stripped bare of their roofing and siding, revealing bombs, missiles and other weaponry stacked dozens of feet high.
"On the videotape, a copy of which was provided to The New York Times by an American official in Baghdad, a crewman said: 'It looks like there's hundreds of warheads or bombs.'"
Not highlighted in teh story is whether in all thses arms caaches, there may be WMD. At this point there is no way to know.
New York Times:
"Senior American military officials say that as much as 650,000 tons of ammunition remains at thousands of sites used by the former Iraqi security forces, and that much of it has not been secured and will take years to destroy."
"...The daunting task facing the military is illustrated in an infrared videotape of a sprawling, unguarded Iraqi air base taken by an Army helicopter crew in June that shows several huge hangars stripped bare of their roofing and siding, revealing bombs, missiles and other weaponry stacked dozens of feet high.
"On the videotape, a copy of which was provided to The New York Times by an American official in Baghdad, a crewman said: 'It looks like there's hundreds of warheads or bombs.'"
Not highlighted in teh story is whether in all thses arms caaches, there may be WMD. At this point there is no way to know.
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