Dem October Surprise

Remember the story about the missing explosives from the Al Qaqaa weapons site. The story the mainstream media/John Kerry was trying so hard to become the 2004 election's October Surprise. The UK's left leaning paper The Independent found that Saddam raided UN weapons sites for suicide attacks:

The disappearance of 350 tons of explosives, including 191 tons of HMX, at the time of the war in April last year became a crucial issue in the last weeks of the US presidential election campaign. John Kerry portrayed the failure to secure the explosives, which could have been used to kill US soldiers, as a symbol of Mr Bush's incompetence in Iraq. It now appears that senior officials in the Iraqi government were discussing the removal of the HMX before the fall of Saddam. The letter from Dr Sabri, obtained by The Independent, was sent on 4 April 2003 as US tanks were advancing on Baghdad. It said that the world was getting the impression that Iraqi civilians were co-operating with American soldiers.