September 24, 2004
SOMEONE LEFT THE YELLOWCAKE OUT IN THE RAIN:
Saddam's nuclear plans hidden under plant (AP, September 24, 2004)
An Iraqi scientist-turned-author says the most significant pieces of his country's dormant nuclear program were buried under a lotus tree in his backyard, untouched for more than a decade before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.In The Bomb in my Garden, Mahdi Obeidi details fallen Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's furious, and then abandoned, quest for a nuclear bomb before the 1991 war.
''Although Saddam never had nuclear weapons at his disposal, the story of how close Iraq came to developing them should serve as a red flag to the international community,'' Obeidi writes with his co-author, Kurt Pitzer.
Posted by Orrin Judd at September 24, 2004 10:41 AM
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Saddam was disappointed when the material didn't sprout into a nuclear bomb, in spite of ten years' worth of rain.
Posted by: Oswald Booth Czolgosz at September 24, 2004 4:22 PMThe lnk doesn't work.
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