In a report on Fox News on October 26, 2004, reporter Dana Lewis (now with Fox News, but with NBC at the time of the Iraq invasion), who was embedded with the 101st Airborne when it arrived at the Al Qaqaa facility in April, 2003, told Brit Hume that he toured through said facility, that it had not yet been looted at that point and that most of the bunkers he saw were still locked.
Mr. Lewis stated: "
I had the chance to walk that facility and I took it. It was a long walk as we went from bunker to bunker with me and my camera man.
Most of the bunkers were locked at that point. You could not get inside."
Brit Hume specifically asked: "Was there any sign that this facility had been looted that you could see?" and Dana Lewis responded: "I would say at that point, no, Brit. I mean, as we went north, you could certainly see looting in Baghdad. And I know what looting looks like. Hundreds of kids and hundreds of people everywhere. This facility was basically abandoned at that point. There were lots of Russian tanks that had abandoned on the road around it. But it looked like it had been well guarded right up until the point that the [U.S.] army got in there."
Brit Hume then asked Mr. Lewis whether "the situation that you witnessed around the facility such that it would have been easy for somebody to spirit [380] tons of explosives, or [380] tons of anything else out there, undetected by US Forces in the area?" To which Dana Lewis responded: "I think it would have been pretty tough. I mean, the roads for the most part were closed down. Not very many people were driving those roads, because there was still some shooting going on and people were worried about getting caught in the crossfire. It would have been hard to move trucks in there right under the army's nose. But at the same time certainly there were vehicles moving on the roads as we got closer to Baghdad. But at that moment I certainly didn't see any lines of trucks heading for that facility. And remember, who would have been ordering those trucks down there? For all intents and purposes, the regime had fled."
While Mr. Lewis stated that he didn't know what had happened at Al Qaqaa between the time the Iraqi army left the facility and the time the U.S. Army arrived, he did specifically say that he toured the facility, that most of the bunkers he saw were still locked, that it did not appear to have been looted yet and that "it looked like it had been well guarded right up until the point" that the U.S. army arrived.
Here's the video with a transcript to the side:
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