Soldiers say they watched 'chaos' as Iraqis looted munitions
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LOS ANGELES -- Explosives were looted from the Al Qaqaa ammunitions site in Iraq while outnumbered US soldiers assigned to guard the materials watched helplessly, soldiers told the Los Angeles Times.
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Several hundred tonnes of sophisticated high explosives have been stolen from a Saddam-era military facility in Iraq, despite repeated warnings from UN weapons watchdogs that US troops should secure the site.
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MARINE officers claimed yesterday that US and Iraqi troops sweeping Fallujah had uncovered enough weapons to arm a nationwide rebellion, and said clearing the former insurgent bastion of weapons was delaying the return of civilians.
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In a video aired Thursday, an armed group is threatening to use a large amount of explosives it claims to have found against coalition troops in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON - A US Army demolition unit removed and destroyed up to 250 tons of explosives from an Iraqi storage complex shortly after the fall of Baghdad, but Pentagon officials were unable to say Friday whether the destroyed munitions were part of a
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Iraqi security men and volunteers remove one of seven bodies dug out from the rubble of a civilian house, which was destroyed by an explosion on Friday evening in the al-Mansur district in Baghdad, December 25, 2004.
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IRAQI troops sweeping through Fallujah yesterday said they had come across &quot;hostage slaughter houses&quot; where people captured during a wave of abductions and beheadings had been held and killed by their militant kidnappers.
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WASHINGTON -- Iraqi officials reported that thieves looted 377 tons of powerful explosives from an unguarded site after the US-led invasion last year, the top UN nuclear official said yesterday. And a former weapons inspector said he had counted about 100 other unguarded weapons sites that may have been stripped of munitions for use in the wave of attacks against ...
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US troops have found a massive weapons cache in the former rebel stronghold of Fallujah. As the grim toll in the fight for the ruined city passed 2000, Iraqi soldiers combing
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British forces uncover a large cache of weapons in a "significant blow" to insurgency in southern Iraq.
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The situation in Iraq has become more complicated and turbulent since a series of explosions hit the war-torn country on Saturday.
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A Marine who brought home souvenirs from Iraq has turned them over to authorities after learning they were looted from an archaeological site.
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WASHINGTON -- The infantry commander whose troops first captured the Iraqi weapons depot where 377 tons of explosives disappeared said yesterday it is ''very highly improbable&quot; that someone could have trucked out so much material once US forces arrived in the area.
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Pentagon officials have identified the period during which nearly 400 tons of powerful explosives from an Iraqi military facility vanished, leading to speculation over should claim responsibility for the disappearance.
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A video shot nine days after the fall of Saddam Hussein has provided powerful evidence that large quantities of explosives missing from Iraq&#39;s al-Qaqaa facility vanished after US forces had seized control of the country.
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When the first bullets snapped by overhead, Iraqi civilians collecting corpses in Fallujah on Wednesday stood confused, rooted to the ground &#151; until U.S. Marines opened up on the insurgents with heavy machine guns. That sent the workers dashing for cover.
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As troops exit an Iraqi city, a glimpse of what follows for the country.