URANIUM-FILLED WAREHOUSES FINALLY SECURED.(News)

From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | Date: April 11, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Bob Drogin Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON -- Three Iraqi warehouses filled with 2,500 barrels of uranium that could be enriched for nuclear weapons -- plus 150 radioactive isotopes that could be used for deadly "dirty bombs" -- lay unguarded for several days this week as Iraqi mobs swirled around.

The facility, known as Location C, was Iraq's only internationally sanctioned storage site for nuclear material. It thus was a potential prize for U.S. forces -- or for anyone seeking to steal radioactive material for sale to other countries or to terrorists.

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