A Pentagon briefing today conflicts with the story they put out yesterday on the missing munitions.
Major Austin Pearson briefed reporters on how he and his men removed more than 200 tons of high explosives from the Al Qaqaa site. But he couldn't say if the material was the same as the explosives videotaped under IAEA seal after Baghdad fell.
Just yesterday, the Secretary of Defense argued that the explosives were moved before Americans arrived at the site. Yesterday, the Pentagon also released reconaissance pictures claiming to show Iraqi's moving the munitions on March 17th.
Last night, ABC aired video from KSTP-TV showing troops with the 101st Airborne examining high explosives at the site on April 18, 2003.
The Pentagon briefing, claiming that 200+ tons of the missing 380 tons were destroyed would shed credence on an earlier ABC report. That story on Wednesday cited IAEA documents in determining only 138 tons of munitions were unaccounted for.
The story of the mysterious missing munitions has been tangled all week. Maybe it was all a "catastrophic accounting success."
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