The declassified transcript of David Kay’s First Interim Progress Report to several Senate Intelligence committees seems to be completely different from whatever the NY Times article was talking about. Read the actual transcript, there’s a lot more being discovered in Iraq than is being reported. Actually most of the media accounts I read verged on willful negligence, these people don’t seem to be doing their jobs very well.

The last paragraph in the NY Times article does concede one astounding fact; of 130 known ammunition storage areas, 120, 92% have yet to be searched. Reading the Kay Transcript further emphasizes how enormous a task searching those areas will be, several are reported to exceed 50 square miles each. Even at a very conservative estimate, they’re still faced with searching several hundred square miles, a moderate estimate goes over a thousand square miles very quickly. They’re finding things like whole fighter jets buried in the sand: photo 1,
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photo 4. Considering that a bunch of fully armed and fueled Luftwaffe fighter planes were discovered under Berlin’s Schönefeld airport in July of this year, 58 years after the city fell, jumping to conclusions about hidden weapons, either way, seems foolish.

Update: Andrew Sullivan posted a worthwhile summary of the Kay Report.