The last thing the Bush administration wants to do is talk about the missing explosives in Iraq, even with the United Nations.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States said on Tuesday it saw no need for U.N. involvement in the search for nearly 380 tons of high explosives missing in Iraq (news - web sites), but Russia said the Security Council should pursue the issue.
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Following the report of the missing explosives, U.S. Ambassador John Danforth said the immediate need was to quickly track down when they disappeared and what happened to them.
This was a job best left, he said, to the Iraq Survey Group, the CIA led task force that has been unsuccessfully scouring Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, a prime justification for last year's U.S. invasion.
As for the idea of a Security Council discussion of the controversy, "I think that this is more a matter of tracking down the facts now than to just have a debate about it," Danforth said.
Tracking down the facts is nice, but how about concentrating on tracking down the explosives?