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Úraníum stolið í Írak

Ekki aðeins hluta af menningararfi heimsins var stolið undir vökulum augum bandaríska frelsis-hersins, heldur líka úraníumi ef marka má viðtöl al-Jazeera við tvo íraska vísindamenn í vikunni. MEMRI greinir frá.

"Tons of uranium known as yellow cakes were stored in barrels. This was a phase in the production of uranium from crude components. There were also other by-products from processing these materials. There were tens of tons of radioactive waste. They were stored in barrels and their radioactivity was not high as long as they were under supervision."

"When order was disrupted, simple citizens - sorry to say - did not have containers to store drinking water, so they stole those barrels, each one containing 400 kilos of radioactive uranium. Some of them dumped the powder on the ground in very large quantities, and others took the contaminated barrels to their homes, and the barrels appeared in various areas. They stored water in them, and had every intention of drinking from them or [using] the barrels to sell milk."

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"We contacted the Americans. They came and talked to us... they took us to the American base, they took information from us about these insects and we explained to them everything in details. After that they told us: 'We will do what is necessary...' Nothing was done. He said that he would take the necessary steps immediately... I cannot explain this [American] behavior..."

Vísindamennirnir sem talað var við segja að þeir hafi unnið fyrir Kjarnorkustofnun Íraks frá því 1968 þegar hún tók til starfa. "Since then, and up to 1990, we continued this type of work which was absolutely for peaceful and humanitarian purposes..." segir annar þeirra og tekur fram að Al-Tawitha, svæðið sem um ræðir, hafi ekki geymt nein gereyðingarvopn (WMD) og að þar hafi ekki verið nein starfssemi í þeim tilgangi að þróa vopn.
Agust skrifaði 02.05.03 18:12

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