White House plays down loss of explosives in Iraq
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The White House played down the loss of 350 tonnes of high explosives in Iraq which Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry said was proof of the administration's &quot;blunders.&quot;
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The White House insisted that President Bush had not meant to single out the ad run by veterans opposed to John Kerry.
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WASHINGTON -- A Pentagon spokesman said yesterday that US soldiers visited a sensitive weapons facility as they marched to Baghdad to topple Saddam Hussein and saw no sign of the massive cache of powerful explosives that the Iraqi government now says was stolen from the Al Qaqaa weapons facility.
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The White House acknowledged Wednesday that its hunt for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction &#151; a two-year search costing millions of dollars &#151; has closed down without finding the stockpiles that President Bush cited as a justification for overthrowing Saddam Hussein. Bush's spokesman said the president had no regrets about invading Iraq.
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ABC News on Thursday showed video  that appeared to confirm that explosives that went missing in  Iraq did not disappear until after the United States had taken  control of the facility where they were stored.
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It&#39;s past time for some context in the politically heated argument over the status of 377 tons of explosives in Iraq. Keep in mind that the US military has either destroyed or is in the process of eliminating
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Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry used the missing explosives in Iraq to underscore President George W. Bush's weakness on security issues, as both candidates continued to canvass for votes that can swing a tight election their way next Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON - The White House refused to say Tuesday whether the top U.S. civilian official in Iraq after Saddam Hussein's ouster had asked the president for more troops to deal with the rapid descent of postwar Iraq into chaos...
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John Kerry, the Democratic challenger for the White House, has made a missing cache of explosives in Iraq the dominant theme of the closing skirmishes in the US election battle, calling it a symbol of President George W. Bush's failures.
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The report that hundreds of tons of high explosives are missing from the Qaqaa munitions facility in Iraq has loomed over the last week of the presidential campaign, and led to a blur of charges and countercharges about what actually happened, and why the
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The International Atomic Energy Agency says several-hundred tons of high explosive material have disappeared in Iraq. The agency says a lack of security has led to looting from several sites.
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The 377 tons of Iraqi explosives whose reported disappearance has dominated the past few days of presidential campaigning represent only a tiny fraction of the vast quantities
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VIENNA, Oct 28  - The International Atomic Energy Agency stepped back into the controversy over missing explosives in Iraq Thursday, insisting that almost 330 tonnes had indeed vanished from a depot in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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Revelations that nearly 400 tons of conventional explosives have disappeared in Iraq have experts worrying that other weapons might also be in jeopardy of falling into insurgent or terrorist hands.
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Washington - In a massive pre-election embarrassment for the Bush administration, 380 tons of lethal explosives - which could be used to trigger nuclear weapons - have vanished from a military facility in Iraq which was supposed to have been guarded by
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Washington responds to news of hundreds of tons of explosives vanishing from an Iraqi base after the invasion.
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THE more than 320 tonnes of missing Iraqi high explosives at centre stage in the US presidential election are only a fraction of the weapons-related material that has disappeared