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| Secret U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq |
| 2008-07-06 |
| yep, the yellowcake that the MSM told us didn't exist. Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame should have to eat it, like a 4th of July hot-dog eating contestant The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans. The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions. What's now left is the final and complicated push to clean up the remaining radioactive debris at the former Tuwaitha nuclear complex about 12 miles south of Baghdad — using teams that include Iraqi experts recently trained in the Chernobyl fallout zone in Ukraine expect to hear nothing about this ..... HT to AOSHQ |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #4 ION IRAN-DAILY > US WANTED TO TEST NERVE GAS IN AUSTRALIA [outlands], but Aussies turned down their request. Remember this story from the 1970's. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-07-06 22:54 |
| #3 Frank...personally I think they should shove the yellowcake where the sun doesn't shine in Joey. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2008-07-06 15:09 |
| #2 apparently, this is the stockpile that was found after the first GW, and under UN seal, but to say Saddam had no WMD or WMD program is a MSM/Lefty lie |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-07-06 11:20 |
| #1 Secret US mission? If George Bush had any sense he'd hold a news conference and tell the whole world all about it. |
| Posted by: Vinegar Flomonter3636 2008-07-06 11:13 |