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To: KLP who wrote (834)	5/10/2003 1:40:14 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794027

After reading up on the looting, I have to agree with Kyros. We definitely should have had more troops stationed there. Seven Nuclear Sites Looted Iraqi Scientific Files, Some Containers Missing (5/10/03) washingtonpost.com ...According to witnesses, Allison's survey team reached both of these sites on April 10, the same day that ElBaradei cited them as the two most important for U.S. forces to protect. But because of continuing debate within the Bush administration over whether to enter without IAEA inspectors present, Allison received a hasty order to withdraw. When Allison was told to evacuate all U.S. personnel, including troops providing security at the perimeter, he grew agitated, witnesses said. "Whoever gave that order better check his retirement plan, because if we leave this place open somebody is going to lose their job," he told an officer at the ground forces operations center of Central Command, according to two witnesses. Allison confirmed the gist of the conversation. Eventually Central Command relented and ordered a company of the 3rd Infantry Division to guard both Tuwaitha-area sites. But the twin complexes, about a square mile each and half a mile apart, were far too big for the force left in place. Soldiers posted there permitted Iraqi civilians who said they were employees to enter freely. Looting at both places continued last Saturday, when a Washington Post reporter spent four hours at the site... Iraq looters exposed to radioactive yellow cake (5/8/03) asahi.com They wanted water containers; they may have killed the village. Iraq-Villagers looted a nuclear power facility here during the waning days of the war and instead of treasure, may have made off with death-drums filled with radioactive uranium oxide concentrate, also called yellow cake. According to officials with the Iraq nuclear energy commission, the storage facility at Zafaraniya was guarded by Iraqi troops until April 4. However, they fled in the face of approaching U.S. Marines. With the arrival of the Marines, the Zafaraniya facility was nominally under control of U.S. forces. However no special guards were posted and residents of a neighboring village looted the facility on April 6 and 7...

To: KLP who wrote (834)	5/10/2003 6:16:00 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 794027

See Ghostwriter's links. There were breathless stories about discovery of a nuclear WMD's when the marines first stumbled into the sealed nuclear complex (see Ghostwriter link). The marines were very exited about high Geiger counter readings around the facility. Then the UN declared the facility was well known, had been sealed by the UN, and what are you idiots doing unsealing it. The stories died out until now when the extend of the catastrophe can no longer be ignored. This is such a typical Army SNAFU. Sorry don't have the original link. I am not surprised that it did not get the publicity it deserved. Now that people are dying I guess there will be some interest. Kyros