Delusions of Adequacy

Via Instapundit, this report from a Minnesota ABC station that had a camera crew at the facility in mid-April, a week after the 101st arrived and two weeks after 3ID's arrival (under fire, and having read David Zucchino's excellent Thunder Run, I find it hard to believe anybody in the 3rd was doing anything but scrambling for cover and returning fire during the first week of April). This crew

may have been just a door away from materials that could be used to detonate nuclear weapons. The evidence is in videotape shot by Reporter Dean Staley and Photographer Joe Caffrey at or near the Al Qaqaa munitions facility.

Interesting what the report does not mention: whether the bunkers they taped actually were the ones containing the missing explosive, or whether the crew ever saw the explosives or were only shown the sealed bunker doors. If the latter, then we still don't have conclusive proof of anything, because of the bunkers' ventilation shafts, which IAEA documents showed could be used to remove the bunkers' contents without breaking seals. See the ABC News link in the post below.

However the story plays out, I hope for some finality soon on what actually happened at Al Qaqaa. I also hope for some finality on the correct spelling of Al Qaqaa.

UPDATE: Kerry Spot at NRO has this analysis of the actual report, which I've not seen. Apparently, this doesn't even come close to getting Kerry out of the hot water in which he eagerly immersed himself a couple of days ago.

I may have a heart attack and die from not-surprised.

Check out the comparison of ABC and Reuters headlines at the bottom of the Kerry Spot link. Interesting.

Still no closure on the spelling question, though.