Outnumbered US troops watched as Iraqi ammo site was looted

Explosives were looted from the Al-Qaqaa ammunitions site in Iraq while outnumbered US troops assigned to guard the materials watched helplessly, soldiers told the Los Angeles Times today.

About a dozen American soldiers were guarding the sprawling facility in the weeks after the April 2003 fall of Baghdad when Iraqi looters raided the site, the newspaper quoted a group of unidentified soldiers as saying.