Pentagon is investigating missing tons of explosives
WASHINGTON The Pentagon says it would take a fleet of trucks and heavy equipment to move tons of explosives from an Iraqi weapons depot. The infantry commander whose troops first captured the depot from which the 377 tons of explosives are missing, calls it "very highly improbable" that someone could have moved so much material with all the U-S troops and vehicles on the two roads near the Iraqi base.
Colonel David Perkins, who is now at the Pentagon, says his troops got to the depot in early April and in the weeks that followed, the roads were filled with U-S military traffic. And any large-scale movement by anyone other than the U-S military would have been detected.
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