[Rhodes22-list] Wally said, "... [Political][More Political stuff]

[TN Rhodey]

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> There may be a reason this story was "buried".
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> http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/was_it_recently_revealed_that_the_us.html
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> I know you guys like to send each other hundreds of emails knocking the
> other side but you really need to check your facts. Brad must be relying on
> the same source that told him the economy was strong!
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> You guys are too funny.
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> Wally
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> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Ed,
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>> The MSM buried the story.  Attached is one archive. Most newspapers
>> posted it deep in their papers and hardly any broadcast news outlets
>> touched the story. The US Armed Forces kept it quiet because it stayed
>> under heavy guard for years and they didn't want to draw attention to
>> it until it was safely in Canada for processing.
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>> Brad
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>> Posted on Sun, Jul. 6, 2008
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>> Iraq's nuclear 'yellowcake' moved to Canada
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>> By Brian Murphy
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>> Associated Press
>> The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program - a huge
>> stockpile of concentrated natural uranium - reached a Canadian port
>> yesterday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week
>> airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
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>> > 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 Hussein's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi
>> authorities who had worried that the cache would reach insurgents or
>> smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.
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>> > 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.
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>> > "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.
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>> > While yellowcake alone is not considered potent enough for a so-called
>> "dirty bomb" - a conventional explosive that disperses radioactive material
>> - it could stir widespread panic if incorporated into a blast. Yellowcake
>> also can be enriched for use in reactors and, at higher levels, nuclear
>> weapons using sophisticated equipment.
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>> > 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, declined to discuss
>> the price, but said the yellowcake would be processed at facilities in
>> Ontario for use in energy-producing reactors.
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>> > "We are pleased . . . that we have taken [the yellowcake] from a
>> volatile region into a stable area to produce clean electricity," he said.
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>> > The deal culminated more than a year of intense diplomatic and military
>> initiatives - kept hushed in fear of ambushes or attacks once the convoys
>> were under way: first carrying 3,500 barrels by road to Baghdad, then on 37
>> military flights to the Indian Ocean atoll of Diego Garcia, and finally
>> aboard a U.S.-flagged ship for an 8,500-mile trip to Montreal.
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>> > And, in a symbolic way, the mission linked the current attempts to
>> stabilize Iraq with some of the high-profile claims about Hussein's weapons
>> capabilities in the buildup to the 2003 invasion.
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>> > Accusations that Hussein had tried to purchase more yellowcake from the
>> African nation of Niger - and an article by a former U.S. ambassador
>> refuting the claims - led to a wide-ranging probe into Washington leaks that
>> reached high into the Bush administration.
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>> > Tuwaitha and an adjacent research facility were well-known for decades
>> as the centerpiece of Hussein's nuclear efforts.
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>> > Israeli warplanes bombed a reactor project at the site in 1981. Later,
>> U.N. inspectors documented and safeguarded the yellowcake, which had been
>> stored in aging drums and containers since before the 1991 Gulf War. There
>> was no evidence of any yellowcake dating from after 1991, the official said.
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>> Find this article at:
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>> http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20080706_Iraq_s_nuclear__yellowcake__moved_to_Canada.html?adString=inq.news/world_us;!category=world_us;&randomOrd=101508072055
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>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Tootle <ekroposki at charter.net> wrote:
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>> > Wally,
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>> > I could not find a reference for the yellow cake that came thru
>> Charleston,
>> > SC.  It was a discreet comment on local South Carolina radio.
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>> > However, that ship apparently was not all.  See:
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>> > http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50430
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>> > Just maybe the MSM (Main Stream Media) does not tell all?  Especially
>> that
>> > which it does not want.
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>> > And just maybe the current political news is just as biased?
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>> > Ed K
>> > Greenville, SC, USA
>> > attachment:
>> > http://www.nabble.com/file/p19994370/statement.gif statement.gif
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>> > Tootle wrote:
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>> >> Wally said, "I have seen many on this list proven wrong about WMD".
>> >>
>> >> While many argue that many things were included in Weapons of Mass
>> >> Destruction, some want the term limited to whether Iraq had a nuclear
>> >> program.  So limit the term to Iraq's nuclear programs under Saddam.
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>> >> Discreetly, over 200 metric tons of yellow cake were removed from Iraq
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>> >> brought to US thru port of Charleston and shipped to unstated American
>> >> plant for processing.  And was that same stuff that Clark said that
>> Iraq
>> >> was not interested in?  How did Iraq acquire 200 metric tons of semi
>> >> processed Uranium ore?  Which asks the question what was it going to be
>> >> used for?
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>> >> Ed K
>> >> Greenville, SC, USA
>> >> Attachment:
>> >>  http://www.nabble.com/file/p19994121/Attention.jpg Attention.jpg
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>> > http://www.nabble.com/file/p19994370/statement.gif statement.gif
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