Al Qaqaa II

With all the reports of looting at Al Qaqaa, you had to know it was a matter of time before more stories like it would come to light. This one has the potential to be even worse:

Looters unleashed last year by the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq overran a sprawling desert complex where a bunker sealed by U.N. monitors held old chemical weapons, American arms inspectors report.

Charles Duelfer's arms teams say all U.N.-sealed structures at the Muthanna site were broken into. If the so-called Bunker 2 was breached and looted, it would be the second recent case of restricted weapons at risk of falling into militants' hands.

Officials are unsure whether this latest episode points to a threat of chemical attack, since it isn't known if usable chemical warheads were in the bunker, what may have been taken and by whom.

"Clearly, there's a potential concern, but we're unable to estimate the relative level of it because we don't know the condition of the things inside the bunker," said Ewen Buchanan, spokesman for the U.N. arms inspection agency in New York, whose specialists have been barred from Iraq since the invasion.

Chief arms hunter Duelfer told The Associated Press by e-mail Friday from Iraq that he was unaware of "anything of importance" looted from the chemical weapons complex. The report his Iraq Survey Group issued on Oct. 6 said, however, that it couldn't vouch for the fate of old munitions at Muthanna.

Now before you say this proves Saddam had WMD's, this would be a part of the stockpile that he had declared and had turned over to UN control after the 1991 invasion. So they weren't really in his possession, and he wasn't going to be handing them out to anyone. They were under "our" control.

That is until Bush decided not to guard them aftet the invasion. Now once again we have no idea what was taken by who or where it currently is.

That's what I call planning!

Lord help us.