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	Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility adjacent to the Tuwaitha "Yellow Cake Factory" contains the remains of nuclear reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991.
		It was used as a storage facility for spent reactor fuel and industrial and medical wastes.
		The facility is surrounded by a sand berm four miles (6.4 km) around and 160 feet (50 m) high, and contained the French-built research reactor Osiraq, destroyed by Israel in 1981 before it went online.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baghdad_Nuclear_Research_Facility (387 words)

	Wikipedia: Kut
		Kut (also known as Kut-Al-Imara and Kut El Amara) is a city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about 100 miles south east of Baghdad, at 32.50°N, 45.82°E. In 2003 the estimated population is about 400,000 people.
		It is the capital of the province long known as Al Kut, but since the 1960s renamed Wasit.
		The Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility, looted following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, is located near Kut.
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/k/ku/kut.html (360 words)

	Iraqi Nuclear Site Is Found Looted U.S. Team Unable to Determine Whether Deadly Materials Are Missing BARTON GELLMAN / ...
		The discovery at the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility was the second since the end of the war in which a known nuclear cache was plundered extensively enough that authorities could not rule out the possibility that deadly materials had been stolen.
		The most important looted nuclear site, less than a mile down the road, is the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center, where U.N. weapons inspectors had catalogued tons of partially enriched uranium and natural uranium -- metals suitable for processing into the core of a nuclear weapon.
		The special nuclear team that surveyed the Baghdad facility this morning had been eager to make the trip for weeks.
	www.mindfully.org /Nucs/2003/Tuwaitha-Nuclear-Research4may03.htm (1582 words)

	THE EXPERIENCE OF F-16S AND F-117S AT THE BAGHDAD NUCLEAR RESEARCH Appendix
		On the third day of the campaign, a large conventional daylight strike by 56 F-16s with unguided bombs attacked the nuclear complex, which was one of the three most heavily defended areas in Iraq.
		According to DIA, the nuclear research facility was not fully destroyed following the F-117 strikes on day 6 of the campaign.
		The final phase III report, which was issued on February 26, day 42 of the campaign, concluded that the ability to conduct nuclear research or processing at the site was severely degraded.
	globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/gao/nsiad97134/app_11.htm (433 words)

	Israel Bombs Iraq's Osirak Nuclear Research Facility
		It was 14 years ago, on June 7, 1981, that 16 U.S.-made Israeli warplanes bombed and destroyed Iraq's Osirak nuclear research facility near Baghdad, more than 600 miles from Israel's borders.
		However, Israel's critics pointed out that Iraq was a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which allowed international inspections of the nuclear facility, while Israel itself refused to sign the treaty, refused inspections of its nuclear facility, and was widely believed to have a large nuclear arsenal.
		On June 13, 1980, Dr. Yahya Meshad, an Egyptian nuclear physicist working for Iraq's Atomic Energy Commission, was killed in his Paris hotel room.
	www.wrmea.com /backissues/0695/9506081.htm (1446 words)

	Marines hold nuclear site - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		SOUTH OF BAGHDAD -- In a valley sculpted by man, between the palms and roses, lies a vast marble and steel city known as Al-Tuwaitha.
		To nuclear experts in the United States, the discovery of a subterranean complex is highly interesting, perhaps the atomic "smoking gun" intelligence agencies have been searching for as Operation Iraqi Freedom unfolds.
		During construction of one of the former nuclear reactors there, French engineers spent a fortune pumping water from the foundation area, only to see buildings crumble when the water was removed.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/news/s_128200.html (1523 words)

	U.S. moving to secure Iraqi nuclear research center
		U.S. troops are now guarding the research center, but looting nonetheless has continued, and scientists are worried that missing nuclear material can result in a slew of safety and health problems.
		A nuclear reactor complex at Tuwaitha was bombed by Israel in 1981, but uranium not yet enriched for nuclear weapons has remained stored there.
		Inside a 10-foot-high chain-link perimeter fence, a platoon of U.S. soldiers guards the remains of the nuclear reactor destroyed by the Israelis.
	www.post-gazette.com /world/20030522iraqnukew1.asp (997 words)

	Nuclear waste dump looted
		The Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility, visited on Saturday, stored industrial and medical waste, spent reactor fuel, and the remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991, it said.
		On April 11, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the facility and nearby Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center urgently required protection from looters.
		The Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Centre has also been looted but has not been inspected by US forces due to a dispute with the IAEA, the Post said.
	www.news24.com /News24/World/Iraq/0,,2-10-1460_1355090,00.html (294 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| 'Looting' at Iraq nuclear sites
		The Tuwaitha nuclear facility is of particular concern to inspectors
		The IAEA urgently recommended both the Baghdad and Tuwaitha facilities be given protection on 11 April.
		UN chemical and nuclear weapons inspectors - whose relations with the US were soured over abandoned weapons inspections in Iraq - have not so far been allowed to return to Iraq.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3002169.stm (515 words)

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		Thereafter, the wing constantly hit key political and military targets to further weaken Iraqi resistance and to prepare for the ground campaign.
		Of significance, the F-117A was the only coalition aircraft tasked to fly over Baghdad during the entire con- flict.
		Immediately prior to the start of the coalition's ground campaign, the F-ll7As destroyed a complex of pumping sta- tions and a distribution network that fed all into anti personnel fire trenches in southern Kuwait.
	www.gulflink.osd.mil /declassdocs/af/19961101/110196_aacha_05.html (210 words)

	"Go Out From Our City..."
		The Washington Post has a bloodcurdling report on one of the two most crucial Iraqi nuclear sites - just outside Baghdad, no less - which was thoroughly looted before the other day American troops were finally sent in.
		The oil fields were looted after the war and, far more terrifying, so were crucial sites where weapons of mass destruction, or at least unknown quantities of dangerous materials, might conceivably have been found.
		Once again, the irony that in a previous existence, Donald Rumsfeld was leader of a US mission to Baghdad when Saddam Hussein was a valued ally can be conveniently forgotten....
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article3226.htm (1108 words)

	Looting of nuclear sites poses deadly threat in Iraq
		The center of the Iraqi government’s non-military nuclear program, it contained several tons of enriched uranium and natural uranium—metals suitable for processing into the core of a nuclear weapon.
		These nuclear materials had been kept in barrels sealed and regularly monitored by UN nuclear inspectors before they were withdrawn from Iraq on the eve of the US invasion.
		The site, known as the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility, is built on the remains of nuclear reactors that were bombed by Israeli warplanes in 1981.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2003/may2003/nucl-m09_prn.shtml (1093 words)

	Iraqi Nuclear Site Is Found Looted - JREF Forum
		The discovery at the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility was the !!!!!!!!second!!!!!!!!!!
		since the end of the war in which a known nuclear cache was plundered extensively enough that authorities could not rule out the possibility that deadly materials had been stolen.
		Well, the musems are looted, the country is in chaos, the research facilities are looted, and the U.S. is killing people who are protesting.
	forums.randi.org /showthread.php?t=5284 (528 words)

	Whiskey Bar: Do It Yourself Nightmare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility stored medical (sorry, doctor place) and industrial nuclear waste and spent fuel, all of which can also be found in abundance here (although who knows what else was there?).
		It isn't apparent how much nuclear material was taken (the article has several conflicting reports), but I wouldn't put it past the bush folk to plant some of this material in Iraq and then claim to have "found it", since finding wmd and nuclear weapons seems to be the bush admins idee fixe.
		John Large, a leading independent nuclear consultant, said the size and description of the cylinders “suggests this is enriched uranium”.
	billmon.org /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=954 (6218 words)

	NTI: Global Security Newswire
		A U.S. Defense Department team Saturday found that the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility, a site associated with Iraq’s former nuclear weapons efforts, had been heavily looted, according to the Washington Post (see GSN, May 2).
		The team, consisting of eight nuclear experts from the Pentagon’s Direct Support Team, said it was impossible to determine if nuclear materials were missing from the site, which stored radioactive industrial and medical wastes, as well as spent nuclear fuel.
		Iraqis claiming to be employees of the site had been entering the facility for more than two weeks before the Pentagon team conducted its survey, according to the Post.
	www.nti.org /d_newswire/issues/2003/5/5/3s.html (1000 words)

	Nuclear waste dump in Iraq heavily looted despite US guards : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Nuclear waste dump in Iraq heavily looted despite US guards
		The Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center has also been looted but has not been inspected by US forces due to a dispute with the IAEA, the Post said.
		Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere.
	sf.indymedia.org /print.php?id=1607435 (362 words)

	NTI: Global Security Newswire
		The teams will also destroy any dual-use facilities, technologies and materials that could be used to produce weapons of mass destruction, officials said.
		Almost three weeks after capturing the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center — the main facility in Iraq’s former nuclear program — the Bush administration still has not conducted an extensive inventory of the radiological materials housed at the site to make sure none have been stolen, according to U.S. military officials (see GSN, April 14).
		Dale Klein, assistant to the secretary of defense for nuclear, chemical and biological defense programs, and Anna Johnson-Winegar, deputy assistant to the secretary of defense for chemical and biological defense, will oversee the program.
	www.nti.org /d_newswire/issues/thisweek/2003_5_5_womd.html (3934 words)

	The Future of Israel: A Palestinian Perspective - Nasser Aruri
		Israel's pursuit of the role of regional police, emphasized by Ariel Sharon's 1981 doctrine claiming a "zone of influence" extending from Turkey to the Sudan and from Pakistan to Morocco, has had its ups and downs.
		The Israeli bombing of Baghdad's nuclear research facility in 1981, the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, and the bombing of the PLO headquarters in Tunisia in 1985 can be seen in the context of that doctrine.
		Even then-Secretary of State Alexander Haig had to ponder the impact of a new imperial power in the Middle East.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1988/May/Sa14620.htm (291 words)

	WND Exclusive: Why Iraq's buying up Sony PlayStation 2s [Free Republic]
		Unlike in the 1991 Gulf War, this time US and British ground units would be dropped deep inside Iraq, with the purpose of destroying Saddam's fighting strength and toppling his regime.
		There is speculation that Bull was killed not so much because of his work on the "supergun", but because the Iraqis demanded his help in improving their Scud missiles as part of the deal.
		The fact that so much weapons technology and space research technology _is_ based on outdated, goofy hardware makes me wonder just how fantastic the fl ops world must be where they have uncounted billions to pull together _really_state of the art stuff for their toys...
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a3f27852c0f.htm (6670 words)

	CNN.com - Report: No WMD stockpiles in Iraq - Oct 7, 2004
		In fact, the long-awaited report, authored by Charles Duelfer, who advises the director of central intelligence on Iraqi weapons, says Iraq's WMD program was essentially destroyed in 1991 and Saddam ended Iraq's nuclear program after the 1991 Gulf War.
		The U.S. official said he believes Saddam decided to give up his weapons in 1991, but tried to conceal his nuclear and biological programs for as long as possible.
		Iraq's nuclear program, which in 1991 was well-advanced, "was decaying" by 2001, the official said, to the point where Iraq was -- if it even could restart the program -- "many years from a bomb."
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/10/06/iraq.wmd.report (964 words)

	kut information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Kut (كوت;; also known as Kut-Al-Imara and Kut El Amara) isa city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about 100 miles south east of Baghdad, at 32.50°N,45.82°E. In 2003 the estimated population is about 400,000 people.
		It is the capital of theprovince long known as Al Kut, but since the 1960s renamed Wasit.
		The Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility, lootedfollowing the 2003 invasion of Iraq, is located nearKut.
	www.vsearchmedia.com /kut.html (391 words)

	Joho the Blog: So much safer now...
		My MSNBC link was the Washington Post story; there was a story on the same subject, same day, in the New York Times
		Slate's "Today's Papers" looks at both and points out a few differences (search down on "Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility").
		The NYT adds in an "unconfirmed report" of missing anthrax, which I accord the status of rumor until it gets, well, confirmed.
	www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/001469.html (359 words)

	Iran resumes nuclear research - World - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Natanz uranium enrichment facility buildings are pictured some 200 miles south of the capital Tehran, Iran.
		Iran removed U.N. seals at its Natanz uranium-enrichment plant and resumed nuclear-fuel research yesterday, provoking immediate condemnation from the United States and Europe along with renewed threats of Security Council action.
		Iran informed the IAEA, the U.N. nuclear watchdog, of its intention to start "small-scale" uranium-enrichment work, the agency said yesterday.
	www.washingtontimes.com /world/20060110-103845-7534r.htm (450 words)

	Iraqi Nuclear Site Is Found Looted
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	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0504-11.htm (1659 words)

	Whiskey Bar: Weapons of Mass Stupidity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Basically, it appears that for the past month, while the Bush Administration has been waging a fierce bureaucratic firefight to keep the UN inspectors from returning to Iraq, the country's nuclear research sites have been converted into self-serve hardware stores -- Wal-Marts without cash registers.
		On Monday, a State Department spokesman played down the report, saying that none of the material involved was suitable for making nuclear weapons.
		We knew where these nuclear materials sites were.
	billmon.org /archives/000089.html (1781 words)

	ukt information,kut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		ukt (كوت; also known as ukt-Al-Imara and ukt El Amara) isa city in eastern Iraq, on the left bank of the Tigris River, about 100 miles south east of Baghdad, at 32.50°N,45.82°E. In 2003 the estimated population is about 400,000 people.
		It is the capital of theprovince long known as Al ukt, but since the 1960s renamed Wasit.
		The Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility, lootedfollowing the 2003 invasion of Iraq, is located nearukt.
	www.vsearchmedia.com /ukt.html (398 words)

	ScrappleFace: IAEA Says Iraqi Nuke Material Now Dangerous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		(2003-05-04) -- The International Atomic Energy Agency says that harmless Iraqi nuclear materials it catalogued during months of inspections have suddenly become dangerous since looters may have removed some from U.S.-guarded research facilities.
		The IAEA criticized the U.S. for letting former employees return to the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility and the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Center where its inspectors had documented tons of uranium suitable for use in a nuclear weapons or so-called 'dirty-bombs'.
		The spokesman said he hopes that any stolen nuclear matter falls into the hands of another responsible government like Iran, Syria or North Korea.
	www.scrappleface.com /MT/archives/2003/05/000882print.html (167 words)

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