And one came back with the culprit on tape, skulking about in the darkness, ripping down a sign here, tearing up another there, then driving off to the next destruction site.
The investigation of the destruction site could, in the best case, allow the determination of the number of bombs destroyed at that site.
The program has been incredibly expensive; in the 2011 budget proposal submitted to Congress in February 2010 just over half a billion dollars was allocated for two of the destruction sites.
She said it might be possible to destroy Iraq's chemical and biological weapons by next August, but others predict that it could take three years to build destruction sites.
Construction sites are preceded by destruction sites.
The commission today reported that a team of experts that left Iraq on Sept. 9 had begun transporting thousands of chemical weapons from their storage bases to a destruction site.
Robert Drews presents a map showing the destruction sites of 47 fortified major settlements, which he terms "Major Sites Destroyed in the Catastrophe".
On 5 May 1994 a small oak commemorating the "hope for peace" was dug up from the destruction site in Crawinkel and transplanted to Compiègne.
He said Iraq indicated that it could deliver only that many to the destruction site northwest of Baghdad right away.
Warheads and guidance systems may be removed before arrival at the destruction site.