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...invasion force that proved too small to secure critical sites in the aftermath of the war. The Bush team's explanations failed to solve the riddle. First, Pentagon officials produced a satellite photo from March 17, 2003, showing two Iraqi trucks lingering outside an al-Qaqaa bunker. The photo proves that there was activity by the former regime at the site sometime between the final IAEA inspection and the arrival of U.S. troops. But a Pentagon spokesman admitted he had no idea what kind of activity took place or even if the trucks were in an area where...
...military leaders believe that even 100,000 more troops would not have made a difference. In October 2003, Lieut. General Ricardo Sanchez, then commander of the ground forces in Iraq, said, "You have ammo dumps [in Iraq] that are 15 km by 15 km. To physically guard every single bunker is impossible." But as the Administration learned last week, it takes only one to set off damaging charges. Reported by Andrew Purvis/Vienna, Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow, Simon Robinson/ Johannesburg and Mark Thompson/Washington
...give up its nuclear-weapons program. He rejects Pyongyang's demands for talks with the U.S. alone. He has been content to let European nations take the lead in leaning on Iran to forgo nuclear arms and submit to meaningful inspections. He has proposed increased funding for research on bunker-busting nuclear weapons that could strike nuclear, chemical or biological weapons caches buried deep underground...
...MILITARY SPENDING: "The President is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to research bunker-busting nuclear weapons...
...Supreme National Security Council, Hossein Mousavian, argued that " Iran cannot be subjected only to the limitations of the treaty and be deprived of its privileges." President Mohammed Khatami even hinted that if its hand is forced, Iran might leave the NPT. Meanwhile, Israel agreed to buy 500 so-called bunker-busters from the U.S., which Israeli security sources said could be used against an underground Iranian nuclear facility...