Without so much as a whimper of protest from Nancy and Harry that it had nothing to do with a weapons program...
BAGHDAD, July 7 (Reuters) - Iraq's government has removed 550 tonnes of natural uranium left over from Saddam Hussein's era and sold it to a Canadian company, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said.Yellowcake... isn't that the stuff that can be refined into weapons grade uranium?
The uranium, called yellowcake, had been stored in a compound at Tuwaitha, south of Baghdad, which was once the centre of Saddam's nuclear weapons programme.
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