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The United States secretly shipped out of Iraq more than 500 tons of low-grade uranium dating back to the Saddam Hussein era, the Pentagon said Monday.


In this 2003 photo, UN inspectors work at the nuclear facility in Iraq.

The U.S. military spent $70 million ensuring the safe transportation of 550 metric tons of the uranium from Iraq to Canada, said Pentagon spokesman Brian Whitman.

The shipment, which until recently was kept secret, involved a U.S. truck convoy, 37 cargo flights out of Baghdad to a transitional location, and then a transoceanic voyage on board a U.S.-government-owned ship designed to carry troops to a war zone, he said.

The "yellowcake" uranium transfer was requested by the Iraqi government at the encouragement of the U.S. government, Whitman said.

The United States approached Canadian company Cameco to bid for the material, according Cameco spokesman Lyle Krahn. He would not disclose the winning bid amount.

The best part is the number one buyer from the canadian company is the US
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3 responses // 500 tons of uranium shipped from Iraq, Pentagon says

  • At least our government is being completely casual by not covering this up. I also wonder how the Iraqi government is going to repay transportation costs....
    maximum00
  • wow so US ships it out, to a canadian company who sells it back to the US. Talk about a shady business transaction
    dellfunk13
  • Isn't "yellow-cake" uranium one of the reasons we believed Saddam had WMD's in the first place?

    So we willingly shipped out of the country we were about to invade all of the reason for going in there in the first place.
    jef_jef

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