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alohacyberian wrote:
> "Dana Dare" <iam@myown.person> wrote in message
> news:3F15995B.8020500@myown.person...
> 
>>Auld Chiel wrote:
>>
>>>TUWAITHA, Iraq - Environmental group Greenpeace called on the
>>>US-led coalition governing Iraq to clean up villages surrounding
>>>a nuclear site outside Baghdad that have been contaminated by
>>>"frightening levels" of radioactive material.
>>>
>>>One canister -- the size of a small car -- contained significant
>>>quantities of radioactive yellowcake and had been left open and
>>>unattended for more than 20 days on a busy section of open ground
>>>near the Tuwaitha plant, Greenpeace said Tuesday.
>>>
>>>from:
>>>http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0624-09.htm
>>>
>>>More:
>>>
>>
> https://www.greenpeace.org.au/features/features_details.html?site_id=45&news_id=1115
> 
>>>Another article on Uranium all over Iraq:
>>>http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0710/p07s02-woiq.html
>>>
>>>Liberals tell us there is no Uranium in Iraq, and at the
>>>same time GreenPeace is over there saying the place is
>>>awash in Uranium.
>>
>>Yellowcake too.
>>
>>Makes you wonder how any report of Iraq attempting to buy *still more*
>>yellowcake from Africa was even marginally credible in any circles,
>>doesn't it?
>>
> 
> 
> Who cares if it's credible;  no rational person can claim they favored the
> allied invasion of Iraq because of their requests for or attempts to get
> nuclear raw material from Africa.  It's another political tempest in a
> teapot.  KM


Yes. But this *particular* tempest led, sadly enough, to many deaths -- 
and a highly-questionable use of military force.

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