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November 9, 2005Iraq: 1.7 Metric Tons of Radioactive Material?Gosh, I read news all the time, and I never saw this story. The US has revealed that it removed more than 1.7 metric tons of radioactive material from Iraq in a secret operation last month. “This operation was a major achievement,” said US Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham in a statement. He said it would keep “potentially dangerous nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists”. Along with 1.77 tons of enriched uranium, about 1,000 “highly radioactive sources” were also removed. The material was taken from a former nuclear research facility on 23 June, after being packaged by 20 experts from the US Energy Department’s secret laboratories. [See also Saddam's WMD hidden in Syria, says Iraq survey chief and Weapons of Mass Hysteria. H/T Siggy] Meanwhile Norman Podhoretz says he’s going to try one more time to set the record straight on the war and WMD. The intelligence agencies of Britain, Germany, Russia, China, Israel, and—yes—France all agreed with this judgment. And even Hans Blix—who headed the UN team of inspectors trying to determine whether Saddam had complied with the demands of the Security Council that he get rid of the weapons of mass destruction he was known to have had in the past—lent further credibility to the case in a report he issued only a few months before the invasion: The discovery of a number of 122-mm chemical rocket warheads in a bunker at a storage depot 170 km southwest of Baghdad was much publicized. This was a relatively new bunker, and therefore the rockets must have been moved there in the past few years, at a time when Iraq should not have had such munitions. . . . They could also be the tip of a submerged iceberg. The discovery of a few rockets does not resolve but rather points to the issue of several thousands of chemical rockets that are unaccounted for. Blix now claims that he was only being “cautious” here, but if, as he now also adds, the Bush administration “misled itself” in interpreting the evidence before it, he at the very least lent it a helping hand. I appreciate his effort and the piece is a must read, but the relentless noise from the left has created a very successfully launched meme, and I don’t know how the Administration can defeat it. Especially if they continue to freaking do nothing and say nothing in response to all of this. I thought THIS was supposed to be the week the White House started fighting back? I won’t hold my breath. Dr. Sanity has more. Oh, this is pretty interesting also. http://theanchoressonline.com/2005/11/09/iraq-17-metric-tons-of-radioactive-material/trackback/ 4 Responses to “Iraq: 1.7 Metric Tons of Radioactive Material?” |
November 9th, 2005 at 8:26 pm
See this:
http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson200402060837.asp
and this;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/01/25/wirq25.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/01/25/ixnewstop.html
November 9th, 2005 at 8:39 pm
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November 10th, 2005 at 3:11 pm
1.7 Tons of Highly Enriched Uranium Removed From Iraq
Lies. More lies from Bushitler! I’m not clear on the details of all this, but I think the reason the press never mentions this (apart from bias) is that all of this nuclear stock was already known about, and kept…
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