The Daily Scan

Tuesday, May 13th, 2003

The Daily Scan reports some creepy WMD news:

In January, when officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency visited a nuclear facility near Baghdad, they reportedly found “nearly two tons of partially enriched uranium, along with significant quantities of highly radioactive medical and industrial isotopes,” according to the magazine.

But when U.S. troops recently secured the facility many items already had been carried off by looters.

Not so widely reported were stories that canisters designed to contain radioactive materials later turned up for sale at local markets. Some were being used to hold milk and drinking water, the Newsweek article noted.

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