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July 10, 2008
Yellowcake–Saddam’s Cake Mix Hauled in Secret From Iraq To Canada
Secret U.S. Mission Hauls Uranium From Iraq To Canada
Last major stockpile from Saddam's nuclear efforts arrives in Canada. The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.
What's now left is the final and complicated push to clean up the remaining radioactive debris at the former Tuwaitha nuclear complex about 12 miles south of Baghdad — using teams that include Iraqi experts recently trained in the Chernobyl fallout zone in Ukraine
U.S. Delivers Iraqi Uranium to Canadian Firm
The U.S. military has finished delivering 550 tons of yellowcake uranium — left over from the late Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons-making era — from Iraq to a uranium trading company in Canada, Pentagon officials confirmed to FOX News on Monday.
Cameco, which sells the natural uranium, also called "yellowcake," to electricity-producing utilities around the world, bought the uranium for an undisclosed price several weeks ago.
To assist in the sale, the U.S. military transported the uranium over the weekend to "ensure its safe transit," senior Pentagon officials said.
"The Department of Defense was responsible for the safe and secure transfer of materials from Iraq to the country of purchase," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said. "The cargo was transported by convoy from Tuwaitha nuclear research facility in Baghdad to a secure location in the Green Zone" and then loaded onto a C-17 and flown to an intermediate location via 37 sorties, he said.
Once at that intermediate location, which Whitman declined to reveal, the cargo was shipped to a third country where it was loaded onto a U.S.-flagged cargo ship. It was transported from there to Canada.
Tuwaitha is the facility that was bombed by Israel in 1981 and again by the U.S. during the 1991 Gulf War. It was a centerpiece of Hussein's nuclear weapons effort, and was looted shortly after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
According to senior Pentagon officials, the U.S. spent an estimated $70 million to ship the yellowcake. Iraq has promised to reimburse the U.S. for the money spent flying the nuclear component.
Yellowcake, depending on market conditions, can be worth anywhere from $60 to $85 per pound.
Officials told The New York Times that while the material could not be used in its current form for a nuclear weapon or dirty bomb, the unstable environment in Iraq, along with the health dangers that can be caused from it sitting around in concentrated forms, encouraged officials to make sure it was put in secure hands.
The Times noted that the yellowcake removed from Iraq is not the same yellowcake that President Bush claimed in his 2003 State of the Union address that Hussein tried to buy from Niger.
Wild Thing's comment.........
This will hurt the argument that Bush lied and this was a war for oil. heh heh
How come they never say they were wrong????
This is fantastic news for the Bush Administration, but it's now up to the them to wave this in front of the face of anyone who spouts this lie about no WMDs in Iraq. We shall see.
"Everyone is very happy to have this safely out of Iraq," said a senior U.S. official who outlined the nearly three-month operation to The Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. "
When the Democrats were in power Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, biological, chemical and may be even nuclear.
Democrats Hypocrisy Over The Iraq War
WMD Quotes from Democrats
Democrats on Iraq + WMD’s (Weapons of Mass Destruction)“…At one time the Democrats and Republicans agreed on one thing: that Iraq and Saddam Hussein had WMD’s (Weapons of Mass Destruction) and would use them. …”
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....Thank you Jack for sending this article to me. Jack's blog is Conservative Insurgent
Posted by Wild Thing at July 10, 2008 04:55 AM
Comments
Saddam Hussein himself was a WMD. The libs don't like to eat yellow cake and have their tirades too? Also, beware of yellow snow!
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at July 10, 2008 05:39 AM
Thank you. It's amazing that this was on Fox News in lieu of the Obamination.
Posted by: Jack at July 10, 2008 07:58 AM
At least it is out of there!!
We probably won't hear much about it again - important things get by passed while we learn about Mr. LIAR!
Mr. Liar would you care for some yellow cake today?
We have some fresh from the Middle East!!
No thanks sweetie I only go for choclate!!
Posted by: Cheryl Zee at July 10, 2008 10:03 AM
Darth, LOL no yellow snow allowed. haha
Yes Saddam all on his own was a WMD.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 10, 2008 04:11 PM
Jack, yes it was and I am wondering if they will discuss this much or not. I hope they bring it up on the talking heads TV shows.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 10, 2008 04:14 PM
Cheryl, LMAO
"Mr. Liar would you care for some yellow cake today?"
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 10, 2008 04:17 PM
The United States has the largest and most dangerous arsenal of WMDs threatening the country and the rest of the world. They are our Whining Mindless Democrats of the Reid, Pelosi, Obama, Clinton, Murtha, Kennedy, and Schumer classes to name just a few.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/stacks/democrat.ParTop.0002.ImageFile.jpg
Posted by: Les at July 10, 2008 08:15 PM
Les, true! That is great thanks for the graphic.
Posted by: Wild Thing at July 10, 2008 11:28 PM
In 2003, Russian Mig 29 Fulcrums were UNEARTHED in the Babylon desert. WMD's are buried in Iraq or in Syria. NO DOUBT! By the way, WHY are the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers so polluted and glowing at night? Hmmmmm? Tell our socialist mother canuckers up in Casbahda to add some maple syrup to the yellow pound cakes!
Posted by: The Ethics Cleanser 08 at July 11, 2008 12:16 AM
