Posted 2:03 PM by Steve
More WMD found in Iraq

While the liberal spin-doctors keep trying to
sling mud in President Bush's general direction in
order to defend their enormously unpopular opposition
to Operation Iraqi Freedom, I have been outraged over
the media black-out regarding WMD found in Iraq and
particularly the potential nuclear nightmare in Iraq.

Forget about the estimates of one million Iraqis
slaughtered under Saddam's cruel regime. Forget, for a
second, the two mobile biological laboratories found
in Iraq and forget the missile warheads designed for
chemical payloads (it appears everyone else has.)

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has
expressed mounting concern about at Iraq's abandoned
nuclear sites - which number around 1,000 in total. A
leading British nuclear analyst has been commissioned
to assess the security risk posed by the missing
material and potential that Iraqi material may have
found it's way into the hands of international
terrorists.

Some of the materials mentioned by the IAEA
during past inspections are 300-400kg of natural and
low-enriched uranium and uranium oxide.

Many drums of radioactive material, including
plutonium, were found behind steel doors in
Al-Tuwaitha's Building 39, a permanent storage site
for low-level nuclear waste. The lock had been broken
on Building 55 and readings consistent with thorium,
cobalt and cesium were recorded. Some cylinders were
emitting so much gamma radiation that the team could
not interpret the results. Radioactive material may
have been deliberately left there to expose the
occupying forces to levels that would prove dangerous.


On May 20th, US authorities to allowed the IAEA
inspections to resume in Iraq. The US has asked the
inspectors to examine the plant along with its own
experts.

The Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility, another
important nuclear site houses the remains of the
Osirak reactor bombed by Israel in 1981 and the USA
during the 1991 Gulf war. It contains spent reactor
fuel, as well as radioactive isotopes including cesium
and cobalt - materials that could be used by
terrorists for making radiological dispersal devices
(commonly known as 'dirty bombs').

Allowing this WMD grade material, to remain in
the hands of someone like Saddam Hussein, would be
unconscionable. WMD grade materials and Iraq's
terrorist-ties is a combination few who remember 9/11
would like to ponder. This is yet more proof, above
and beyond the mobile biological laboratories and the
missile warheads designed for chemical payloads, that
Iraq's WMD presented a clear and present danger to the
United States and our allies.