According to the AP article, yellowcake goes for $120/lb. According to this article, there were 1,200,000lbs. The value of the yellow cake then is $144million. Saddam could have sold the yellowcake for $144million, but he did not. Apparently, he had no use for the yellowcake, no intentions for its future use, and he had no use for 144 million dollars. This strains my credulity.
I can’t believe that Saddam Hussein would sit on 144 million dollars worth of yellowcake uranium for more than a decade if he had no use for the stuff. Why didn’t he sell it? it is far more likely that he had nuclear weapons ambitions, as both major parties, and I believe the MSM, stated in the 1990s.