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October 25, 2004
Two More Success Stories From the Iraq Occupation
Why is the media wasting our time with unimportant stories like these when there are schools, hospitals, and power plants being rebuilt in Iraq every day?
Huge Cache of Explosives Vanished From Site in Iraq
The Iraqi interim government has warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives - used to demolish buildings, make missile warheads and detonate nuclear weapons - are missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations.
The huge facility, called Al Qaqaa, was supposed to be under American military control but is now a no man's land, still picked over by looters as recently as Sunday. United Nations weapons inspectors had monitored the explosives for many years, but White House and Pentagon officials acknowledge that the explosives vanished sometime after the American-led invasion last year. . . .
New Violence Flares in Iraq, After Executions Leave 50 Dead
An American soldier and three Iraqi civilians were killed today, the military said, a day after Iraqi officials announced that the deadliest ambush of the insurgency left about 50 freshly trained and unarmed Iraqi soldiers dead in remote eastern Iraq on Saturday evening.
The soldier died and five other soldiers were wounded when a bomb exploded this morning in western Baghdad. Earlier, a suspected car bomb killed three Iraqi civilians and wounded six others in central Baghdad.
Elsewhere, a bomb exploded at the regional governorate building in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing a tribal leader and two of his associates, local government officials told Reuters. The bomb had been planted in the car of Sahir Khodhir, head of the National Assembly of Iraqi Tribes in the northern part of Iraq, and blew up when the vehicle reached the car park of the Nineveh regional government headquarters in Mosul, about 240 miles north of Baghdad, the agency reported. . . .
Posted by Mike Tennant at October 25, 2004 10:53 AM