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To: aladin who wrote (105514)	7/15/2003 11:07:03 AM
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To: aladin who wrote (105514)	7/15/2003 11:36:34 AM
From: Alastair McIntosh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Re: The Marines and the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency found tons (note the plural) of yellow cake uranium in Iraq, which has no native sources of uranium and no mining. The controversy about the intelligence surrounding the Niger deal notwithstanding - where did it come from? And when? Procured 429 drums containing 138,098 kg yellowcake from Portugal in 1980 Procured 487 drums containing 148,348 kg yellowcake from Portugal in 1982 Procured 432 drums containing 137,435 kg of yellowcake from Niger in 1981 Procured 426 drums containing 139,409 kg of yellowcake from Niger in 1982 iaea.or.at Iraq's native source of Uranium: The Akashat Mine, located 420 km West of Baghdad, is a Uranium ore production facility associated with the Al Qaim site. Iraq has reserves of uranium ore which continue to be mined at Akashat, on the border with Syria. The Al Qaim facility, 100 km to the north east, remains capable of ore refinement. By the mid-1980s Iraq had at least 164 tons of yellowcake, obtained at the Akashat mine and processed in Iraq at Al Qaim, a plant built by a Swiss company. fas.org