Iraq, ending the second inspections regime. They have not been allowed to return to date. March 20 - US led invasion of Iraq begins. April April 5 - first visit by US troops to Al Qa'qaa complex, by 3rd Infantry Division. The troops find white powder and atropine in a section of the Latifiyah Explosives and Ammunition Plant, itself part of Al Qa'qaa April 7 - US 3rd Infantry Division departed Al Qa'qaa by this time. April 9 - US forces secure Baghdad. April 10 - US 101st Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade arrives at Al Qa'qaa. They do not search the site. April 11 - 2nd Brigade leaves Al Qa'qaa. April 18 - News crew from KSTP-TV, embedded with the US 101st Airborne Division, films unguarded explosives and an unopened IAEA seal on a bunker door. Only HMX was sealed at the site. May Paul Bremer reportedly warned by Iraqi officials that Al Qa'qaa has probably been looted. Internal IAEA memorandum reportedly warns that terrorists might be helping "themselves to the greatest explosives bonanza in history." US Weapons Inspector David Kay visits Al Qa'qaa complex. He later says: "I saw it in May and it was heavily looted at that time. Sometime between April and May most of the stuff was carried off. The site was in total disarray." May 27 - US 75th Exploitation Task Force reportedly visit Al Qa'qaa and finds the high explosives IAEA seals broken. 2004 June June 28 - Iraqi Interim Government takes control of Al Qa'qaa. October October 10 - Iraq Ministry of Science & Technology writes to IAEA: "We would like to inform you that the following materials ... registered under the IAEA custody were lost after 9-4-2003, through the theft and looting of the governmental installations due to lack of security." October 15 - IAEA warns the US mission in Vienna that the materials are missing. (within days) - Condoleezza Rice learns of the missing explosives, according to Scott McClellan October 25 - IAEA confirms to the UN Security Council that the explosives are missing. October 28 - A Pentagon source maintains that a US Infantry division removed 250 tons of explosives from the site, shortly after the Iraq War November November 4 - L.A.Times reports that members of the 317th Support Center and the 258th Rear Area Operations Center US soldiers witnessed massive looting at Al Qa'qaa over several weeks in