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To: KLP who wrote (914)	5/12/2003 6:11:05 AM
From: KyrosL	Respond to of 794033

Sure, some of the things that the article says may prove to be untrue. But nobody disputes that looters roamed freely inside the nuclear site after the US took it over. Nobody disputes that the site had a lot of radioactive wastes, that were accessible to the looters. Radioactive wastes are not WMDs. But they are the key ingredient in a dirty bomb -- a bomb that packs together conventional explosives with radioactive material and designed to disperse it so it can contaminate a large area. I am not sure if a dirty bomb is considered a WMD. In any case, I don't think this topic has a lot of relevance to politics, other than highlight the general lack of planning (mostly as a result of inadequate forces on the ground) that characterizes the aftermath of the war so far.