Big news? Not really, IMO.

A) They haven't been analyzed yet, and it wouldn't be the first time a "find" had tested negative. Does any form of HE leak fluid after a long period of time? I know old-fashioined dynamite would.

B) The shells are about ten years old (I got this from a different story, but could not relocate it).

C) We don't know if they were buried because the regime planned to recover them when the heat was off; or whether some fourth-level flunkie, told to get rid of these things ten years ago, decided to bury them in the middle of the night, figuring the paperwork and documentation was Somebody Else's Problem. These are two very different things, and unless we know which, it's not a significant find.

It is worth noting that they weren't found until eight months after the end of major combat, which indicates that maybe we aren't 100 percent sure of what might still be there. It's also worth noting that they weren't found by