Reply #209: I thought they nabbed some kind of radioactive stuff a while ago... [View All]

[gulfcoastliberal]

Not this latest revelation, but this:

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.

"During the upcoming inspection, the IAEA team must identify the radioisotopes and other dangerous materials still missing," Greenpeace said, adding that it should determine how much material could have found its way "onto the black market."

http://middle-east.news.designerz.com/greenpeace-urges-un-to-track-down-nuclear-material-looted-in-iraq.html