A U.S. Airforce C-17 took off from Baghdad airport on July 14, 2003 with 2.5 tons of yellow cake (uranium hexafluoride), in route to the Savannah River nuke weapons plant.
I don't know where Saddam got the uranium, but he got it and processed it.
5.56mm
He got it in Niger...but in the 1970's.
Can this be verified?
If true, why has it not been reported anywhere else?
He got most of it from Niger. This and other radioactive materials were stored under UN seal in the laboratory in Iraq. He had tons of this stuff all inventoried by the UN and described in public papers.
This was one reason that the idea that he would be trying to get more from Niger was eminently believable.