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Thursday, Oct. 28, 2004 10:37 a.m. EDT
Pre-war Satellite Pics Show Truck Activity at Al-Qaqaa
The Pentagon is examining evidence that could further discredit a report by the New York Times that hundreds of tons of high explosives were looted by terrorists from a major Iraqi weapons facility after the U.S. invaded in March 2003.
"Senior Pentagon officials say they are analyzing some satellite images from the Al-Qaqaa facility south of Baghdad from before the war," the Fox News Channel's Bret Baier reported late Wednesday.
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"Apparently, they show some large truck activity at that facility, [indicating] possibly that Saddam Hussein was moving the explosives out," Baier told Fox News host Greta Van Susteren.
Photos showing a pre-war truck convoy at Al-Qaqaa would comport, Baier said, with a January 2003 report by the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency revealing that 158 tons of the high explosive RDX had already gone missing from the site.
Experts say that to remove the 380 tons of high explosives reported missing from Al-Qaqaa by the New York Times, it would take at least 40 trucks, each with a 10-ton capacity.
On Wednesday Iraq war veteran Ken Dixon, who was with the 101st Airborne Division when it reached Al-Qaqaa on April 10, said he noticed tracks from heavy truck tires outside the three bunkers he inspected.
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