Are you telling me that Greenpeace was in Iraq DURING THE WAR running around The Tuwaitha site before our soldiers secured it? That sounds like absolute rubbish and I would love to see a credible news source for that claim. AS to your other observation, perhaps it was speculative on my part, but it stands to reason that the US military did have estimates on the amount of yellowcake likely present and they state very clearly that they found more than they anticipated.
From the DOD briefing:
"Q: The other part of the question was, what do you make of the fact that the IAEA inspected this facility in December 2002 and surveyed it and found less stuff than you-all have found now after it was looted?
Senior Military Official: Well, first of all I'd say I have not seen an official inventory. That's part of what this will be. But we had information from a number of sources as to what we thought was there, and we actually found more than what we thought was there. What we thought may not have been absolutely accurate, because we didn't have that official inventory. But it also probably wouldn't be useful to speculate about what might have -- how the additional stuff might have gotten there. We'll wait until the inventory is done."
It is stated in the presser that our troops secured the site on the 7th. The war had only started a few days before, as I recall. So if Greenpeace was running around Iraq during the war 'securing' these weapons sites.... That would indeed be unbelievable...lol
The canister -- the size of a small car -- contained significant quantities of radioactive yellowcake and had been left open and unattended for more than 20 days on a busy section of open ground near the Tuwaitha plant, Greenpeace said Tuesday.
Greenpeace Says "Frightening" Radioactivity in Iraqi Villages