Nuclear assets 'vanish' in Iraq

[DoYouEverWonder]

11 October, 2004

Equipment and materials that could be used to make nuclear arms have been vanishing in Iraq since the invasion, the United Nations has warned.

Satellite images show entire buildings have been dismantled without any record being made, said Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog.

Iraq's US-backed leaders have not reported to the UN on the state of nuclear plants despite a duty to do so.

But they have asked the UN to help sell off unwanted nuclear material.

Inspectors from Mr ElBaradei's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who established that Saddam Hussein had abandoned any nuclear weapons programme before the war, have not been allowed to move about Iraq freely by the US.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3735224.stm

Glad to see Bush's invasion of Iraq has made America safer, not.

[Briar]

1. I like the fact

that the UN inspectors, having been barred from Iraq, discovered this by studying satellite pictures. The ISG, on the ground, were too busy to notice. Obviously sifting through warehouses full of paperwork in the hope of embarrassing France and Russia while proving that Saddam hoped to restart his WMD programme at some unspecified time in the future and so provide Bush and Bliar with an excuse for their illegal war was far more important.

[truthisfreedom]

2. we've provided them with lots of extra nuke-u-lar material too in the form

of depleted uranium. handy dirty bomb material. sitting around everywhere.

[Moderator]

3. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=898069