Russia Stole the High Explosives?!

The Washington Times is reporting that Russian special forces appear to have taken the high explosives from the Al-Qaqqa facility in the days before the Iraq Invasion. It appears it was an attempt to cover up the depth of Russia's relationship with the Iraqi dictator, by moving tons of Russian-supplied ordinance to Syria.

"The Russians brought in, just before the war got started, a whole series of military units," Mr. Shaw said. "Their main job was to shred all evidence of any of the contractual arrangements they had with the Iraqis. The others were transportation units."...Most of Saddam's most powerful arms were systematically separated from other arms like mortars, bombs and rockets, and sent to Syria and Lebanon, and possibly to Iran, he said.

This can not be good. It certainly puts to rest John Kerry's charges of incompetence regarding these explosives, but it raises the question of what else Vladamir Putin's government smuggled out at the last second. Is the reason for a lack of WMDs, because they are hiding under Mr. Putin's desk?!