subgenius
13th May 2003, 01:49 PM
Doctors fear that hundreds of Iraqis are suffering from radiation poisoning after widespread looting .....
Seven nuclear facilities have been damaged or effectively destroyed by ransackers since the end of the war last month. Technical documents, sensitive equipment and barrels containing radioactive material are thought to have been stolen.
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Alarmed by the reports, IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei sent a letter last week to reiterate earlier demands that the United States grant the agency access to Iraq's nuclear sites, but so far there has been no response.
Mohammed Zaidan, the former chief agricultural engineer at Tuwaitha, said he visited the plant with Hamid Al Bahli, a nuclear scientist, on April 7 when American troops were approaching from the south.
The soldiers, he said, assured the men they would secure Tuwaitha, but two weeks later they returned to find there were no Americans, only hundreds of people looting the facility and dogs rolling around in spilled uranium oxide.
"The soldiers had promised us they would secure the site but they did not and we wonder why," he said.
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030513-5521632.htm
We appear to be doing a bad job in this area.
I still am waiting to hear of outbreaks of disease from when the labs were looted and they carted off all kinds of disease filled test tubes and equipment.:eek:
Seven nuclear facilities have been damaged or effectively destroyed by ransackers since the end of the war last month. Technical documents, sensitive equipment and barrels containing radioactive material are thought to have been stolen.
......
Alarmed by the reports, IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei sent a letter last week to reiterate earlier demands that the United States grant the agency access to Iraq's nuclear sites, but so far there has been no response.
Mohammed Zaidan, the former chief agricultural engineer at Tuwaitha, said he visited the plant with Hamid Al Bahli, a nuclear scientist, on April 7 when American troops were approaching from the south.
The soldiers, he said, assured the men they would secure Tuwaitha, but two weeks later they returned to find there were no Americans, only hundreds of people looting the facility and dogs rolling around in spilled uranium oxide.
"The soldiers had promised us they would secure the site but they did not and we wonder why," he said.
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030513-5521632.htm
We appear to be doing a bad job in this area.
I still am waiting to hear of outbreaks of disease from when the labs were looted and they carted off all kinds of disease filled test tubes and equipment.:eek: