US blamed for nuclear threat (Tuwaitha looting)

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(Asharq Al-Awsat) – Thameer Shafeeq, the manager of radiation sources in the office of environment protection from nuclear radiation, said 400 containers of radioactive materials have been looted from Tuwaitha site. The containers might cause a dangerous problem due to their effects on humans, animals and trees of the neighbourhoods surrounding the site. They have succeeded in regaining 70 containers. Many vehicles and much military equipment have been polluted with the depleted uranium all over Baghdad during the war. He blamed US forces for not preventing a nuclear crisis by stopping the looters.
(London-based Asharq al-Awsat, a pro-Saudi independent paper, is issued daily.)

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1. How did we lose our adeptness?

I don't understand how things like this can happen. The U.S. is spinning out of control on every front and the American people are in a box.

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2. Greenpeace urges UN to track down nuclear material looted in Iraq

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VIENNA (AFP) Aug 03, 2004

The environmental group Greenpeace has urged the UN nuclear watchdog to track radioactive material missing from the looted Tuwaitha facility in Iraq to ensure it does not fall into the hands of terrorists.

Greenpeace said in a letter to the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), acknowledged by the Vienna-based body on Tuesday, that a mission it sent to Iraq a year ago found radioactive material in communities living near Tuwaitha.

It was sent to IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei last week as UN inspectors were preparing to return to Iraq for the first time since the war, at the invitation of the new Iraqi government.
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Greenpeace said the IAEA had to obtain an exhaustive list of what the United States airlifted from Iraq in the aftermath of the war, and compare that to pre-war inventories in order to see what could remain inside communities or have fallen into the wrong hands.
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