Re: Nuke 'yellowcake' from Iraq found?

["Gerry Blackwood" <gpblackwood@justice.com>]

Less than 2 pounds! WorldNetDaily? I rather read the

National Enquirer, at least they believe in UFO's and

Elvis.......



Gerry Blackwood



On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:36:05 -0600, "Charly Frey" wrote:



> 

> Nuke 'yellowcake' from Iraq found?

> IAEA probing discovery of uranium oxide in shipment of

> scrap steel

> 

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> Posted: January 16, 2004

> 1:00 a.m. Eastern

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> © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

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> A shipment of scrap steel believed to be from Iraq

> contains radioactive

> material known as yellowcake, according to a recycling

> company in the

> Netherlands.

> 

> The shipment was passed on from a Jordanian metal

> dealer who claims he was

> unaware it included uranium oxide, the Associated

Press

> reported.

> 

> The material, which can be used to make nuclear

> weapons, was at the center

> of a controversy last year over President Bush's

> reference in his State of

> the Union address to a report Iraq was seeking to

> purchase it in Africa.

> 

> Key documents supporting the claim were found later to

> be forgeries, but the

> U.S. said its original information about the alleged

> attempt to buy

> yellowcake from Niger came from British intelligence.

> The UK's Foreign

> Office still stands on its claim.

> 

> Paul de Bruin, spokesman for Rotterdam-based

> Jewometaal, told the AP he has

> dealt with the Jordanian dealer for 15 years, and the

> man is convinced the

> material came from Iraq. De Bruin has been told to not

> reveal the dealer's

> name, however, because the find is being investigated.

> 

> Uranium oxide is not highly radioactive, experts say,

> but with advanced

> technology can be processed into enriched uranium,

> suitable for a nuclear

> weapon.

> 

> The Dutch Environment Ministry confirmed yesterday

> Jewometaal reported the

> find Dec. 16, the AP said.

> 

> The International Atomic Energy Agency visited

> Rotterdam Wednesday but had

> no further comment, the newswire reported.

> 

> Environment Ministry spokesman Wim Van der Weegen said

> the material was

> discovered in a small steel industrial container used

> to connect pipes or

> electrical wires.

> 

> Dr. Alan Ketering, a researcher at the nuclear

research

> plant at the

> University of Missouri-Columbia, told the AP

yellowcake

> has no non-nuclear

> industrial use. It would be strange to find it in

> random scrap metal, he

> said

> 

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