Thanks,
David

LifeTrek on July 7, 2008 at 6:20 PM

They didn’t exactly say it was new yellowcake, but they left speculation open by NOT saying it was from BEFORE the first Gulf War.

And thank-g!d,we don’t here a peep from the so-called
enviromental wacko’s,up here in the north!

After all peace groups aren’t for peace,their a political
activist organization!:)

The American Thinker right off the top of my head, they have updated since I posted. They had another on their blog that I can’t seem to access as it has moved off the front page.

Don Surber.

Patterico

And others I had noted that linked off these three.

Hope that helps.
David

LifeTrek on July 7, 2008 at 9:18 AM

You state in your blog that “Some are reporting this as a new unreported finding.” Who are the “some” that you’re referring to?

US removes Saddam’s yellowcake uranium — from first Gulf War

I hope Joe Wilson, and his dumber blond wife are reading this article. IMO, The whole thing came down ass backwards. Joe and his Pink Panther wife should have be doing time, and not Scooter Libbey.

Yes, the IAEA did “put the seal on” 500 tons of yellowcake at Al—Tuwaitha. When our boys arrived, there was 488 tons of Yellowcake and 1.8 tons of enriched U stored separately.

Perhaps fairies broke in and put 22 tons of Yellowcake into the machinery (centrifuges) to make the 1.8 tons of enriched-U?

Allah, if you update this post, how bout showing your readers what an actual UN/IAEA “seal” looks like (and also note that the “seal” on one set of doors was undermined by the open air shafts and the other doors left open/unsealed/unmonitored (we even have film of trucks going into and out of the “sealed” bunker).

I’m just much more interested in how 22 tons under UN/IAEA seal turned into 1.8 tons of enriched-U.

It now sits in the hands of the Canadians, who will put it to peaceful uses,

Of course we will. Especially for our Danish friends. Bwahahaha. Er, I mean, of course.

Re. Frozen Tex: and what’s also funny about how our MSM is reporting this is that they (or the headline writers, at least) are making a big deal out of this being a “secret” deal and mission. Yeah, I wonder why anyone would want to have removed the yellowcake from Iraq in secret and not have front-page coverage of when the shipments were scheduled etc.? Gee, I wonder why?

Also, I hadn’t read about storing it in Saskatchewan, Frozen Tex: I assumed it was going to be used at the Bruce nuclear power plant as fuel seeing as they’re the ones who bought it.

That makes 3600 tons and counting.

But who do you think financed and supplied the 2600 tons that were turned over by Libya when they disclosed their program?

Twenty thousand Iraq people working there, AQ Kahn origin centrifuges and bomb plans all from Saddam to outsource the work.

Now if the market for yellow cake is so controlled, where did Libya get it, off the internet on Ebay?

The huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium reached Montreal on Saturday in a top-secret journey that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a voyage across two oceans.

Facilities in Port Hope will refine more than 500 tonnes of “yellowcake” uranium — the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment.

I have to add that as high school student in the 1960′s I went into the shop just to see the famous Tokoyo Rose I kept hearing about in movies and reading in books. The shop was less then a mile from where I lived.

Kafir on July 7, 2008 at 9:37 AM

Kafir: I confess, you jogged my memory; I remember seeing that 60min thing on Tokyo Rose now, but it must have been 30 years ago, at least!

Anyway, I used the caricature of Tokyo Rose, rather than the reality.

A better example would’ve been “Hanoi” Jane Fonda!

These clowns make Tokyo Rose look like a Patriot!

Dale in Atlanta on July 7, 2008 at 8:21 AM

Dale, it’s my turn to tell you a story. Tokyo Rose was an American girl of Japanese descent. She was in Japan visiting a sick aunt when the war broke out. The Japanese government refused to allow her to return to the US when other US citizens left Japan. With no way out and running out of food, she took a job as a typist. She ended up on the radio reading copy that she got from captured Americans. Once the war was over, she returned to her beloved America only to be tried as a war criminal and stripped of her citizenship but, oddly enough, allowed to remain. She worked in her family’s import/export shop in Chicago until her death in 2006.

I’d rather have a dozen Iva Toguris than even one AP “reporter.”

It now sits in the hands of the Canadians, who will put it to peaceful uses

Greenpeace still thinks we’re evil, just for co-operating with Americans.

It was big news on TV here last night, and it was a business deal. The yellowcake was bought by a private company for “tens of millions” of dollars, and will likely be resold as reactor fuel. A tiny concern is that the facility in Saskatchewan where it will be stored apparently has a poor safety record.

Wilson lied and the Democrats beat that dead horse for political advantage to the detriment of the nation.

However, we know exactly where this yellowcake came from, and the Niger portion (199.9 tons) was purchased in 1981. Really!

This is not relevant to the Wilson lies! Or the reason we went to war! This was declared! Didn’t involve Saddam under sanctions – period!

This yellow cake is not a new revelation or a new admission of Iraqi guilt. This is simply the fitting resolution of an old news story.

Simple as that.
David