[Numbers Guy]

"It wasn't for nukes, it was for Saddam's Uranium Club for Children! Children who had perfect attendance and good grades got their own chunk of uranium personally presented by Saddam. It was the perfect gift for the growing child!!!"

[igoramus987]

Of the 500-ton stockpile of yellowcake uranium ore stored at al Tuwaitha, Jafar said only that the nuclear material had been purchased from Niger in the 1980s. And he made no mention of the 1.8 tons of low enriched uranium flown out of the facility by the U.S. Energy Department in June.

Can you make a dirty bomb out of yellowcake uranium ore or low enriched uranium?

[Rebelbase]

In other news, 100% of Iraq has been declared fertile farmland.

[Sender]

Hmmm. Yellowcake ore from Niger. Now where have I heard that before?

[Mikey_1962]

No.. not for nukes.. for that uranium powered instant hot water maker.. for like instant coffee and cup o' soup. Just put on this lead apron first.

[been_lurking]

IRAQI PHYSICIST: 500-TON URANIUM STOCKPILE NOT FOR NUKES

Not anymore it isn't. We saw to that.

[kidd]

"...We had orders to hand over the equipment to the Republican Guards, to the special Republican Guards, and they had orders to destroy the equipment that we handed over to them...

Sure they did. They also had orders to not fire at US planes that were patrolling their airspace from 1992-2002.

[Logical me]

All this jacka$$ had to do was allow full UN inspections without his monitoring. He defied all attempts for the UN to detect all WMD. How could anyone with any brain at all not be suspicious. And this was not the only problem. He was supporting terrorist. How about that training camp in the Northeast of Iraq that had a plane for training. Come on, only a moron could have come to the conclusion that he was just a choir boy.

[oceanview]

the equipment was sent to Libya - that's how their program started - located inside a mountain, where it couldn't be touched by conventional bombing.

[piasa]

NOVEMBER 1, 1995 : (REPORT : IRAQI NUCLEAR SCIENTIST JAFFAR AND ASSOCIATES ARRIVE IN LIBYA TO INSTALL A NUCLEAR ENRICHMENT KILN) According to the Jerusalem Post, Iraqi nuclear scientist Ja'afar Dhia Ja'afar arrived in Libya to lead a group of experts and engineers from Iraqi military industries in installing a small nuclear enrichment kiln in the area of Sidi Abu Zarik, approximately 380 kilometers south of Tripoli. The Iraq-Libya cooperation allegedly began with a secret visit by Ra'ad Id Aldafi, from Libyan military industries, to Baghdad on August 30, 1995. The Jerusalem Post goes on to say that contracts for Iraqi scientists to work in Libya were passed off as contracts for these scientists to lecture in Libyan universities and institutions. Unnamed experts suggest that Iraqi nuclear fuel could reach Libya by sea within weeks, and that Iraqi experts in Libya could begin enriching it after installing more small or medium-sized kilns. —Tom O'Dwyer, "Libya Helps Iraq Dodge Weapons Supervision," The Jerusalem Post, 1 November 1995.