From Paula Zahn's interview with the reporter who was there when the video and photos were taken.
Zahn: First of all, Dean, are you convinced of the fact that you actually were at the al Qa Qaa weapons site?
DEAN STALEY, REPORTER, KSTP-TV: Almost certainly.
I think in terms [of whatever] I've been able to learn about where it is, just how big it is and where it is in relation to the place that we were camped with the 101st Airborne, I don't think there's any question that we were in some part of the al Qa Qaa compound. . . .
What do you make of these highly conflicting stories? You hear Dean's account. We know the date is on that tape. It's encrypted on the tape. So, on one hand, that would seem to indicate that some of those weapons were there after the war began, and yet, the Pentagon today releases a satellite photo that they claim was taken two days before the war got under way showing activity which appear to be trucks perhaps maybe moving some of these materials away from the site.
MICHAEL LYSOBEY, FORMER WEAPONS INSPECTOR: Well, the materials at that site or the materials that I saw in the video are not necessarily the HMX, which is the high explosive used in a nuclear implosion device.
What we saw in the tape were a bunch of barrels and a bunch of explosive caps. Al Qa Qaa is an explosives facility. So that's what we'd expect to see. The explosives that we're worried about, we don't know. This isn't definitive proof that those explosives were there.
Via Wizbang where there is a lot more information on this story. Background on the story here.
Can we all just admit that no one really knows what happened to the explosives at Al Qaqaa yet and we won't know until after an investigation has been launched? We can also admit that it was way, way too early to be placing blame for this since we don't really know the whole story yet?
It seems irresponsible to be jumping to conclusions every time there's a new break in this story.