US Team Took 200 Tons of Iraqi Explosives
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WASHINGTON - A US soldier is coming forward Friday to say a team from the 3rd Infantry Division took about 200 tons of explosives from an Iraqi military facility soon after Saddam Hussein&#39;s regime fell last year.
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US teams tried to rescue Briton Ken Bigley and two Americans from their Iraq kidnappers, sources say.
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Hundreds of tonnes of explosives are missing from a site near Baghdad that was part of Saddam Hussein&#39;s dismantled nuclear arms program but never secured by the US military, the UN nuclear watchdog has said.
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A US aircraft dropped a quarter-tonne (500 lb) bomb on the northern Iraqi city of Mosul yesterday after guerrillas attacked a US patrol that was trying to capture an insurgent arms dump, a military spokesman said.
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The US is playing down the significance of a UN letter saying almost 350 metric tons of high explosives went missing from an Iraqi base after the war.
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The White House acknowledged Monday that nearly 380 tons of powerful explosives are missing from a weapons facility that American forces
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BLUNDERING American troops have let 380 tons of high explosives disappear from an Iraqi military base. Terrorists and insurgents are feared to have raided the weapons stockpiles at the Al
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The US military said on Saturday it has captured two senior terrorists linked to Iraq&#39;s most feared Islamic militant group as police uncovered more bodies under the rubble after a day after a suicide bomber blew up a gas tanker in an upscale Baghdad
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U.S. forces in Iraq discovered nearly 19 tons of explosives in a weapons cache north of Baghdad this week, one of the biggest finds of its kind, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
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US troops have captured 34 Iraqis, including 10 wanted for making explosive devices to attack coalition forces, the military said Tuesday.
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The Pentagon reported yesterday that US Army soldiers removed about 250 tons of material from the Al-Qaqaa munitions complex in April 2003.
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_ 1991: The International Atomic Energy Agency places a seal over storage bunkers holding conventional explosives known as HMX and RDX and PETN at the Al-Qaqaa facility south of Baghdad as part of U.N. sanctions that ordered the dismantlement of Iraq's nuclear program after the Gulf War. HMX is a "dual use" substance powerful enough to ignite the fissile material in an atomic bomb and set off a nuclear chain reaction.
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There appears to be two periods of time when the 377 tonnes of high explosives missing from a military facility in Iraq could have been moved or stolen - in the weeks before the US invasion began or in April after US troops overran the Al-Qaqaa base and
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Nineteen US soldiers and three other people were killed in an explosion in a dining hall at a base in Mosul yesterday in the single deadliest attack on American forces since the coalition invasion of Iraq.
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Russian special forces &quot;almost certainly&quot; removed the explosives missing from a military base south of Baghdad before the March 2003 US invasion and sent them to Syria, Lebanon and possibly Iran, The Washington Times daily said quoting a US official.
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WASHINGTON -- The US military said yesterday it believes a suicide bomber penetrated an Army base in northern Iraq and set off the explosion on Tuesday that killed 21 people, including 18 Americans.
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BAGHDAD -- In the latest attempt to link the deadliest form of roadside bombs in Iraq to components manufactured in Iran, US Army officers displayed plastic explosives yesterday they said were made in Iran and recovered during a raid Saturday in violence-racked Diyala Province.