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10/29   I fully expect this to make the front page of the NYtimes
        for the next few days
        EXPERT TELLS OF DESTROYING MOST OF SADDAM'S CACHE
        http://www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/31351.htm
        \_ If you watched CNN between 9-11pm tonight, you would find that
           CNN emphasized the part where both the Army guy and the Pentagon
           spokesperson said "I don't know" to whether any of what he exploded
           were the IAEA-secured explosives in question.  Aaron Brown and Paula
           Zahn both kept pounding this point.
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www.nypost.com/news/worldnews/31351.htm
Reprint October 30, 2004 -- WASHINGTON - An Army ordnance expert stepped into the furious campaign fray over missing explosives in Iraq yesterday - decla ring his unit removed and destroyed 250 tons of ammunition from Saddam's massive weapons depot in April 2003. Maj Austin Pearson of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division told reporters at a Pentagon news conference yesterday that his unit was at the Al-Qaqaa weapons depot on April 13, 2003, 10 days after US forces reached the s ite. He said 250 tons of plastic explosive, TNT, detonation cords and white ph osphorous rounds were removed on nine forklifts and tractor-trailers and later destroyed at a nearby US military base. That was part of a massive US effort that has resulted in the destructi on of 400,000 tons of ammunition and explosives from Saddam Hussein's ar senal since the end of the war. RDX is often considered plastic explosive, or plastique. But Pearson admitted he did not know what percentage of the material that he removed was plastique and added that his unit did not remove all the explosive material at the massive site, which is said to be the size of Manhattan. Pearson and DiRita also said they did not know whether any of the materia l removed by that unit was part of the 377 tons of RDX explosives report ed missing by the IAEA. "I did not see any IAEA seals at any of the locations we went into. "We believe that some of the things they were pulling out of there were R DX," DiRita added. The issue over the missing explosives became a campaign flashpoint earlie r this week when John Kerry seized on the leaked IAEA report and declare d it is a critical example of how President Bush has mishandled the war. The Pentagon has countered that it would be impossible for looters and in surgents to remove that much material from the Al-Qaqaa site after the f all of Saddam because US forces were in control of the roads around th e facility. On April 18 - five days after Pearson's unit removed the 250 tons of mate rials - an embedded crew from a Minneapolis TV station accompanied soldi ers from the 101st Airborne inside some of the storage facilities at the site. It videotaped what appears to be barrels containing explosives bearing IA EA seals. The IAEA reported Monday the explosives had disappeared by early May 2003 .