Looks like those explosives were already gone from the facility when the Americans arrived....according to NBC.
One instance where embedded reporters have made a differance?
NBC News reported that on April 10, 2003, its crew was embedded with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division when troops arrived at the Al Qaqaa storage facility south of Baghdad.
While the troops found large stockpiles of conventional explosives, they did not find HMX or RDX, the types of powerful explosives that reportedly went missing, according to NBC.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/26/...ives/index.html