according to today's Washington Post...
"The first designated search teams, members of the 75th Exploitation Task Force, surveyed the depot on May 8, 11 and 27 in 2003 but found none of the explosives in question, the Pentagon said. "
In other words, the administration knew, EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGO, that these explosives were missing...but an investigation into what happened to those explosives is only beginning NOW, because the information has been made public....
HMX was placed under IAEA seal specifically because of its usefulness in denotating nuclear bombs. The Iraq Survey Group was supposed to account for all of this kind of material that was in Iraq.
But the Iraq Survey Group's final report makes no mention of the explosives that were under IAEA seal at al Qaqaa, and are now missing. The ISG report DOES, however, contain an extensive table of nuclear related equipment that was under IAEA seal (some of which is now missing).
(see http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/report/2004/isg-final-report/isg-final-report_vol2_nuclear
-anx-e.htm )
nor is any mention of these explosives made in its section on Iraq's Ammunition dumps...
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/report/2004/isg-final-report/isg-final-report_vol3_cw-anx-
h.htm
In other words, David Kay and Charles Duelfer have known that over 100 tons of HMX explosives used to detonate nuclear weapons have gone missing for 18 months--and that a total of 380 tons of high explosives that would be very useful to terrorists were not where they were last seen, right before the war started---and they knew that the places where these munitions had been kept were extensively looted.
But they did not disclose any of this information in their reports.