Puppets Cutting Strings?

Yesterday Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said that "gross negligence" by some elements of the US-led military in Iraq was partly to blame for the killing of 49 unarmed army recruits and three drivers on Saturday. Now the Iraqi government says that the 350 tons of high explosives could not have been moved before the fall of Saddam.

A top Iraqi science official said Wednesday it was impossible that 350 tonnes of high explosives could have been smuggled out of a military site south of Baghdad before the regime fell last year.

He warned that explosives from nearby sites could have also been looted.

I don't know how reliable a source the "Iraqi Government" is but I do know it doesn't seem to be acting much like a puppet. Both of these stories would seem to undercut the puppet masters reelection bid. It took Saddam a lot longer to turn on his masters than it is taking Allawi.