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To: marcos who wrote (102632)	6/24/2003 3:27:08 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) of 281500

Interesting brief note from Josh Marshall on the possibility US officials are denying UN officials permission to carry out medical examinations on local inhabitants suspected of contracting radiation poisoning in the disappearance of "low enriched uranium". (June 24th, 2003 -- 12:34 AM EST/a> // link) Could this possibly be true? The BBC has a report on the rising numbers of Iraqis who have apparently become victims of radiation poisoning because of the low-enriched uranium (i.e., "yellow-cake") which was looted from the Tuwaitha nuclear facility south of Baghdad. Barrels of the stuff were dumped into local rivers, it seems, so that the containers could be used for various domestic purposes. (Hell, and you thought you had to go to Niger to get your yellow-cake!) Down at the end of the article, though, comes this ... A team of UN experts has been at Tuwaitha trying to account for the missing nuclear material, but the United States as the occupying power is not allowing them to carry out any medical examinations on local people. Is this part of the dispute with the UN inspectors or the IAEA? Are we doing medical examinations and don't want others doing it? I have a hard time believing it's really as clear cut as that BBC clip implies. But if there's anything to this story it's really, really bad. -- Josh Marshall

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