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Insurgents loot arms dumps

Iraqi arms dumps overrun by coalition forces in 2003 were still being looted by insurgents in search of explosives and ammunition as late as last October, according to a damning new report by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO).

Thousands of tons of military-grade high explosives as well as shells capable of being converted into the kind of roadside booby-traps which caused the majority of US casualties have been taken without hindrance, the report states.

The watchdog GAO also claims that a shortage of military manpower to guard Saddam-era weapons depots meant that insurgents were left free to strip more than 400 sites of lethal hardware for a guerrilla campaign which has killed more than 3000 American and 134 British soldiers.</em>

Don’t fret, however. The Ministry of Oil is safe.


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