Iraq..the thing you worried about

[Biggles]

I find it hard to believe that parts of a nuclear power plant were dismantled and sold by looters right under our noses. Having said that the looters pretty much dismantled everything else. Who knows?

Iran is already ahead of where Saddam was at so it is unlikely they would be interested. Syria perhaps? Or maybe we bought the stuff off the looters to take it out of circulation. I am sure in the years to come there will be lots of memoirs hitting the bookshelves.

[Rat Faced]

An update.....

VIENNA (Reuters) - Nearly 380 tons of explosives are missing from a site near Baghdad that was part of Saddam Hussein's dismantled atom bomb program but was never secured by the U.S. military, the United Nations said Monday.

The head of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, will immediately report the matter to the U.N. Security Council, a spokeswoman for the agency said.

The missing explosives could potentially be used to detonate a nuclear weapon or in conventional weapons, the agency said.

"ElBaradei has decided to inform the Security Council today," spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said.

The New York Times, which broke the story Monday, said U.S. weapons experts feared the explosives could be used in bombing attacks against U.S. or Iraqi forces, which have come under increasing fire ahead of Iraq's elections due in January.

The U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been barred from most of Iraq since the war and has watched from afar as its former nuclear sites have been systematically stripped by looters.

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[Biggles]

How does one steal 380 tonnes of high explosive (apart from carefully)