Iraqi Nuclear Site Is Found Looted

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NEAR KUT, Iraq, May 3 -- A specially trained Defense Department team, dispatched after a month of official indecision to survey a major Iraqi radioactive waste repository, today found the site heavily looted and said it was impossible to tell whether nuclear materials were missing.

The discovery at the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility was the second since the end of the war in which a known nuclear cache was plundered extensively enough that authorities could not rule out the possibility that deadly materials had been stolen. The survey, conducted by a U.S. Special Forces detachment and eight nuclear experts from a Pentagon office called the Direct Support Team, appeared to offer fresh evidence that the war has dispersed the country's most dangerous technologies beyond anyone's knowledge or control.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10888-2003May3.html


Like the looting of the Iraqi Intelligence Ministry (not to mention all the others), this is unacceptable.
The claim can be made that the WMD's can't be found because they have been carted off by looters. (Although I think we will still find some.)
And the looting has the unfortunate consequence of dispersing dangerous items to who knows where/who.
Did we just hand over WMD's to the terrorists?

[Questioninggeller]

Yeah, I read that a little while earlier today and I must emphasize this point;


The discovery at the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility was the !!!!!!!!second!!!!!!!!!! since the end of the war in which a known nuclear cache was plundered extensively enough that authorities could not rule out the possibility that deadly materials had been stolen.

I'm not weapons expert, but I do know enough of some random radioactive substances can inflict harm, and result in scaring a huge population. Well, the musems are looted, the country is in chaos, the research facilities are looted, and the U.S. is killing people who are protesting.