Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was right; we can expect “untidiness” in Iraq. Especially given that anti-American forces there have had unfettered access to weapons which they are now using to attack American soldiers:
The two most recent suicide bombings here and virtually every other attack on American soldiers and Iraqis were carried out with explosives and mat�riel taken from Saddam Hussein’s former weapons dumps, which are much larger than previously estimated and remain, for the most part, unguarded by American troops, allied officials said Monday.
The problem of uncounted and unguarded weapons sites is considerably greater than has previously been stated, a senior allied official said.
The American military now says that Iraq’s army had nearly one million tons of weapons and ammunition, which is half again as much as the 650,000 tons that Gen. John P. Abizaid, the senior American commander in the Persian Gulf region, estimated only two weeks ago.
In separate interviews, the officials, civilian and military and from different countries, expressed concern about the potential of attackers with access to the weapons dumps to nurture violence and insecurity.
Yes, those explosives can make quite a little mess, can’t they?