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Originally Posted by Nate the great
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You're forgetting, perhaps, Nate, that I worked in the nuclear industry for more years than I care to remember?
. This particular "stock" of yellowcake uranium had been under lock and key by IAEA inspectors since the first gulf war and was a remnant from Iraq's failed
civilian nuclear power programme (the reactor built by the Soviet Union and destroyed by an Israeli attack). It does not represent an attempt by Mr. Saddam to build up a "nuclear stockpile" and is, in fact, completely useless for that purpose. It needs to be enriched to become weapons-grade material and Iraq never possessed any significant level of uranium enrichment technology. The stuff is no use to terrorists - heck, if any terrorists actually wanted any, you can buy it on the open market for about $10/kg. The only thing you can actually do with it is make fuel for power reactors from it, not "bombs".
As for anything reported by "Fox News"; that attribution alone is sufficient to discredit the story entirely.