I looked closely at the date, but it says 4th April:
Tornado jets are poised to use yet another different weapon in the war against Iraq ... concrete bombs.
The jets, normally based at RAF Marham in Norfolk, have already used high-tech weaponry such as the "bunker busting" cruise missile Storm Shadow, which cost £750,000 apiece and can pierce several feet of concrete.
But now the crews operating over Iraq from the Ali Al Salem airbase in northern Kuwait are about to go to the opposite extreme and use "inert bombs".
These are basically blocks of concrete shaped as bombs and painted blue to identify them as non-explosive if they are discovered still intact after the war.
Full piece at
BBC News
Now we know. It's not about oil... we want all that sand!
P.S. I remember the "Blue Circle" association of the Torando, but is this a late April Fool?