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"In a secret operation, the United States last month removed from Iraq nearly two tons of uranium and hundreds of highly radioactive items that could have been used in a so-called dirty bomb," the AP reports.
"The nuclear material was secured from Iraq's former nuclear research facility and airlifted out of the country to an undisclosed Energy Department laboratory (Oak Ridge TN - ed) for further analysis, the department said in a statement."
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"1.77 metric tons of low-enriched uranium and roughly 1000 highly radioactive sources from the former Iraq nuclear research facility,"
Deadly Nerve Agent Sarin Is Found in Roadside Bomb
An artillery shell containing the nerve agent sarin exploded near a U.S. military convoy in Baghdad recently, releasing a small amount of the deadly chemical and slightly injuring two ordnance disposal experts, a top U.S. military official in Iraq said yesterday.
Can't copy and paste any of those links, can you post in a different way?
They were shells from 1991 with mustard gas that had been stored inproperly, and thus, rendered ineffective. This is why even an administration as shameless as the Bush admin hadn't trumpeted these findings more loudly.
Not true. Saddam had to prove there were no WMD and WMD programs.
Some people do not know he had rules to play by and he failed them. He wasnt allot to even have the intent much less the purchasing paperwork they have found that he was buying materials to do so. Enough for me.
what country doesn't want to start or re-start WMD programs that are threatened by the U.S. military
Like Libya? Qaddafi abandoned his WMD programs and had his nuclear material shipped to Oak Ridge.
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