Qaqaagate

Who would've thought that a local news station may have provided the key to the unfolding story of missing explosives at Al Qaqaa.

A 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS crew in Iraq shortly after the fall of Saddam Hussein was in the area where tons of explosives disappeared, and may have videotaped some of those weapons.

Using GPS technology and talking with members of the 101st Airborne Division, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS has determined the crew embedded with the troops may have been on the southern edge of the Al Qaqaa installation, where the ammunition disappeared. The news crew was based just south of Al Qaqaa, and drove two or three miles north of there with soldiers on April 18, 2003.

During that trip, members of the 101st Airborne Division showed the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS news crew bunker after bunker of material labelled "explosives." Usually it took just the snap of a bolt cutter to get into the bunkers and see the material identified by the 101st as detonation cords.

There's video of it on their site too. One of the images clearly shows an orange label marked "1.1 D." According to this UN explosive classification order, that label is consistent with RDX, the missing explosives in question.

Meanwhile, Chief Hackenstein himself, Rudy Giuliani, tried to blame the troops for this mess on the "Today" show:

No matter how you try to blame it on the president the actual responsibility for it really would be for the troops that were there. Did they search carefully enough? Didn't they search carefully enough?

It's clear that in this Adminstration, the buck stops here... if by "here" you mean a series of bunkers in Baghdad.