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.
It is hard to imagine that the world (UN) could have objected if he had said he wanted to sell it and “feed the children.” Obviously there are countries that would buy it and use it with no IAEA objections.