[Qiviut]

I saw an article on the old Saddam stockpiles a while back - my memory (not that great) seems to recall the thinking by the “experts” was that everything would be so degraded by now, it would be difficult if not impossible for ISIS to use it in any significant way. It would be dangerous for ISIS to mess with it, too.

[Kackikat]

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/bush-lied-what-about-that-550-metric-tons-of-yellow-cake-lefty

[wbarmy]

The weapons makers of Al Qaeda were some of the greatest re-purposers in the world. They would take apart hundreds of different kinds of munitions and re-purpose them for IEDs, VBIEDs, pressure bombs, etc.

Just because the original weapon might not work anymore, doesn’t mean they can’t make something else out of it.

[Kackikat]

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2008_09/IraqUranium

[hinckley buzzard]

Experts in the media often are self-appointed and open to question. Stuff doesn't degrade much in a mere twenty years or so, in hot dry environments. Shells may not be usable as artillery but they would make deadly dirty bombs in the hands, say, of a suicide truck driver.

[Vermont Lt]

Bingo.

They would end up killing themselves if they tried to handle it in any meaningful way.

[RetiredTexasVet]

“...thinking by the “experts”...”

The first thing that popped into my mind when reading that was an image of the Three Stooges (Larry, Curly, & Moe or Jones, Mann and Hansen).