Team Inspects suspected plutonium site (update by the journalist who broke original story, NEW info)

SOUTH OF BAGHDAD: A scout team from the Pentagon's Defense Threat Reduction Agency arrived in a convoy Thursday at the Al-Tuwaitha nuclear complex, beginning a probe that could take weeks to determine whether plutonium is present at the massive nuclear facility and extensive underground complex.

The Pentagon team also began interviewing a former nuclear physicist and an engineer who recently worked at Al-Tuwaitha. The two men told the Marines they would show coalition investigators "everything we didn't show the inspectors" from the IAEA.

Everything they didn't or couldn't, due to the the minders all around?

The IAEA probed Al-Tuwaitha 12 times during the past four months looking for weapons of mass destruction once international inspections resumed. According to the IAEA, investigators found no evidence of illegal nuclear weapons production.

Well I think this proves one can't find a thing, if one doesn't LOOK for a thing. Were Blix and Elburidie not doing their job correctly?

Between and below Al-Tuwaitha's rose gardens and palm groves, Marines have found stockpiles of artillery shells, chemical drums from Russia and locked bunkers and storage rooms

Were these buried? From Russia, NO it can't be.

"It's like walking through a diabolical Disneyland," said Marine Sgt. J. J. Turner of Charleston, S.C., as he peered into locked biological laboratories deserted nearly a month ago when the war began.

So this means the UN was there for 4 months and it was inspected 12 times, and still couldn't find the stuff.

"If we leave, they'll ransack the place. We can't let these people around the nuclear material. It'll kill them."

Attention LEFT:We are saving the Iraqi people from themselves.

You supported my suspicions. Basically, the claims of the detractors are internally inconsistent. Gee, how surprising. It is almost certain the U.N _never_ found weapons grade plutonium that they then "sealed". Maybe reactor uranium, but not weapons grade plutonium. But it was precisely weapons grade _plutonium_ that was detected by Marines. It's really funny how liars trip over themselves.

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