Peter Bouckaert, who heads the New York-based group’s international emergency team, told The Associated Press he was shown a room ‘stacked to the roof’ with surface-to-surface warheads on May 9, 2003, on the grounds of the 2nd Military College in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.
Bouckaert said he gave U.S. officials the exact location of the warheads, but that by the time he left the area on May 19, 2003, he had seen no U.S. forces at the site, which he said was being looted daily by armed men.” (Associated Press)
Abu Ghraib was assuredly not the only place military abuses of Iraqi detainees occurred; rather, it was only the place it happened to come to light. Similarly, it is a no-brainer that al Qaqaa was not the only place the US failed to secure weaponry and explosives which have been looted and used in the insurgency. What distinguishes al Qaqaa is simply that the deficits had to be reported to the IAEA and came to light.
