U.S. Announces It Intends to Move Tons of Uranium From Baghdad

NY Times ^ | May 22, 2004 | JAMES GLANZ

[BenLurkin]

IENNA, May 21 — The United States has informed an international agency that oversees nuclear materials that it intends to move hundreds of tons of uranium from a sealed repository south of Baghdad to a more secure place outside Iraq, Western diplomats close to the agency say.

But the organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has taken the position that the uranium is Iraqi property and that the agency cannot give permission to remove it, a diplomat said. The diplomat said that the United States was unlikely to be deterred by that position and that American officials had contacted the agency on the matter this year, before the Iraq insurgency flared last month.

[BenLurkin]

Didn't see this anywhere else on FR

[BenLurkin]

I'm a little uncertain on the protocol for posting NY Times excerpts.

Am particularly concerned that this link does not require registration.

[alancarp]

NYT was sourced, but this also appeared in the ContraCostaTimes at http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/8731165.htm?1c.

[TC Rider]

This must be a hoax. There is no uranium, no yellow cake, no evidence of any kind of weapons or mass destruction or of a nuclear weapons program in Iraq.

/ sarcasm

[JRandomFreeper]

I'm thinking that would have to be uranium ore or yellowcake or something besides refined uranium, to be measured in tons (whether short-tons, or metric-tons).

/john

[BenLurkin]

You are correct. That is in fact what the article says.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Now here's a switch. I figured they'd accuse the U.S. of bringing it in. Now they're getting their knickers in a bunch because we want to take it out.

[BenLurkin]

Yes, the lefties seem to think we are wrong to seperate the Uranium ore from the same situation in Iraq which they claim is 'chaotic'.

[Asclepius]

They had this much radioactive material? Who bloody cares about WMD when they had this?!

[Blue Highway]

Now here's a switch. I figured they'd accuse the U.S. of bringing it in. Now they're getting their knickers in a bunch because we want to take it out.

Taking away the terrorists weapons of mass destruction... appalling!

[BenLurkin]

Now I see why the U.S. was concerned about that German company selling high grade alloy tubes designed for a nuclear centrifuge. (Saddam claimed they were 'rocket casings' IIRC)

[Steven W.]

fits with a stupid lady caller to "Is Larry King Alive with Bob Woodward" tonight ... she says, "did I hear the president right, did he try to get us to believe there are foreign fighters, even terrorists, behind the insurgent uprising in Iraq?"

Yes, TERRORISTS. KILLERS. THUGS.

and, yes, with weapons of mass distruction to include botulinum toxin, mustard, ricin and sarin in addition to radiological & nuclear materials. Can the average voter say "DIRTY BOMB" ???

[bitt]

strange that tonight Bush didn't mention the sarin laced shell or the yellow cake or the Bio WMD found so far in Iraq...I think his speech was canned for Iraq and other mid eastern countries...he looked pleasant and patriarchal...

Personally I wish he had looked more like a crazy Dad with a shotgun in his hand, fuming about WMDs and terrorists killing their own people!

[JRandomFreeper]

That ain't what the headline says. I didn't read the whole article. But I don't click on links to possible NY Slimes articles. I'd spend too much time in the shower, trying to scrub away the stench.

/john

[Patton@Bastogne]

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TC Rider,


The repository, at Tuwaitha, a centerpiece of Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program until it was largely shut down after the first Persian Gulf war in 1991, holds more than 500 tons of uranium, none of it enriched enough to be used directly in a nuclear weapon.


Good God Almighty !


500 tons of Urainium. I suppose it was intended to make Islamic-themed "black-ligh posters".



Patton@Bastogne


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[bayourod]

"I'm a little uncertain on the protocol for posting NY Times excerpts."

You are supposed to verify all statements for factual validity and add a "Barf Alert" to the title.

[LibKill]

To hell with protocol and the U.N.

Confiscate it!

[BenLurkin]

Roger that.

I just couldn't resist the implications of the information - and the NY Times is cerainly NOT a 'right-wing' publication - the lefties can't deny this.

[JRandomFreeper]

Just Blixify it.... "Der uranium ore vas well known to everyone und unter seal. It vas never a crediable threat. It vas even reported in der New York Slimes... er Times."

The leftists think they can spin out of anything. They think they learned to drive on ice.

/john

[JRandomFreeper]

Confiscate it!

But, please, don't nuke it. ;>)

/john