Loose Nukes In Iraq Not WMD? - Rush Limbaugh
June 10, 2003
Here's a very interesting and disturbing item, dated May 29th from Jane's Intelligence Digest, a publication that deals with armaments, military forces, and strategy.
"Throughout May, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has expressed mounting concern at the outbreak of looting that has been taking place at Iraq's abandoned nuclear sites - which number around 1,000 in total. JID has commissioned a leading British nuclear analyst to assess the security risk posed by the missing material and the golden opportunities the chaos in Iraq may have presented to international terrorists…
"The Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility, another important nuclear site that has been looted, houses the remains of the Osirak reactor bombed by Israel in 1981 and the USA during the 1991 Gulf War. It contains spent reactor fuel, as well as radioactive isotopes including caesium and cobalt - materials that could be used by terrorists for making radiological dispersal devices (commonly known as 'dirty bombs'). Terrorists could obtain the material either directly or from looters selling material on the black market."
Am I missing something here? If there is a threat that terrorists might use the material produced or discarded at these nuclear facilities, then why aren't they classified as weapons of mass destruction or potential weapons of mass destruction?
This is a legitimate threat. We're talking nuclear looting at these plants. For crying out loud he had a nuclear program going on! And yet this doesn't seem to satisfy some of the ongoing demands that we find evidence of those WMDs? This is very curious.