WHAT URANIUM?

Looted and for sale in Iraq: the deadly core of nuclear weapons: Potentially lethal radioactive sources missing from Saddam's biggest N-plant (David Pratt and Felicity Arbuthnot, 03 August 2003, Sunday Herald)

PURE uranium oxide which could be used in the making of a "dirty nuclear bomb" capable of killing countless people is being offered for sale in a Basra souk for $250,000.

Senior American officials have confirmed that rampant looting was discovered by US marines arriving at the al-Tuwaitha nuclear site on April 7.

Melissa Fleming, a spokes woman for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, says: "As many as 400 potentially lethal radioactive sources are still missing from the inventory at al-Tuwaitha."

When numerous government officials, including the President, line up to take the blame for the claim that Saddam was trying to obtain uranium, you can be certain uranium is going to turn up in Iraq. Posted by Orrin Judd at August 4, 2003 10:11 PM