In light of today’s horrendous news that 380 tons (760,000 pounds) of high explosives seem to have been “mislaid” in the aftermath of the war in 2003, I was reminded of a blog entry I posted in January 2004 which dealt with a similar theft, only then it was about radioactive waste and its devastating effect on one small Iraqi villiage. The cause was the same, failure to secure dangerous materials. Of course, great care was taken at that same time by the military to secure the buildings of the Iraqi Oil Ministry.
Here is Dahr Jamail’s original story “Who Will Give Us Back Our Health”