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To: DavesM who wrote (461559)	9/19/2003 11:39:18 AM
From: Kevin Rose	Respond to of 769667

Known leftovers from the pre-Gulf War I nuke program. A hazard to the citizens, but certainly not part of an active nuke program: Following the 1991 Gulf War, the International Atomic Energy Agency removed all known Iraqi stocks of highly enriched uranium and plutonium, in accordance with the provisions of UN Security Council Resolution 687. As of 2002 the only positively confirmed nuclear material left in Iraq is 1.8 tons of low-enriched uranium and several tons of natural and depleted uranium. The material is in a locked storage site at the Tuwaitha nuclear research facility near Baghdad. Under the terms of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, this stock of material is checked once a year by an IAEA team. The most recent check was in January 2002, and none of the material had been tampered with at that time. globalsecurity.org