This is impossible ... right?
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program, a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium, reached Montreal on Saturday to complete a top-secret U.S. operation.
The removal of 550 metric tonnes of "yellowcake," the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment, included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a voyage across two oceans.
The Iraqi government sold the yellowcake to a Canadian uranium producer, Cameco Corp., in a transaction the official described as worth "tens of millions of dollars."
A Cameco spokesman, Lyle Krahn, said the yellowcake will be processed at facilities in Ontario for use in energy-producing reactors.
"We are pleased … that we have taken (the yellowcake) from a volatile region into a stable area to produce clean electricity," Krahn said.
U.S. and Iraqi forces have guarded the 9,300-hectare yellowcake site since its discovery. Link







Somebody lied and lots of people died.
Posted by: Joe Wilson | 07/05/2008 at 10:00 PM
Hey Joe, I thought you and Val said there wasn't any yellowcake going to Saddam from Africa. Just wondering.
Posted by: ron, the gregarious hermit | 07/06/2008 at 10:19 AM
Was HUSSEIN (not related to Obama) stupid?
No......one could 'Monday morning QB' and say that IF he can a WMD readyto go, would he have used it?
Even dictators, etal know the results of a nuclear explosion no matter where you live on earth, or where you launch a nuke!
Posted by: Oldcatman | 07/06/2008 at 11:56 AM