Very interesting...
I have just found on the web the As-Sabah Arabic-language Iraqi newspaper where this story originated yesterday.
I looked at the English and Arabic versions.
The report is that the nukes were found in Tikrit between Oja and Al-Dor, in Tikrit.
What makes Al-Dor (district) interesting is:
It was the site for IAEA 'inspection' in March 2003
and
It was the site of Saddam Hussein's hole where he was captured.
"An IAEA team inspected a military factory being built by the SAAD Company south of Baghdad. The team also visited high explosives-related sites in the same area. A second IAEA team inspected the Sahal Al Din Company that produces military electronic equipment in the Al-Dor District, 140km northwest of Baghdad. A third IAEA team performed a radiation survey 30km northwest of Baghdad. "
and (snip)
"US forces captured ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Saturday at a remote farmhouse near the hamlet of Al-Dor in the Tikrit area, north of the capital. Hussein was found in a specially prepared “spider” hole, complete with exhaust fan, sunk in the courtyard of a mudbrick building, ending an eight-month manhunt. The US military operation, code named “Red Dawn,” began on Saturday evening. Some 600 troops searched two target areas for more than ten hours before reaching their quarry, who surrendered without a shot. The capture of Saddam Hussein, who emerged heavily bearded and with long hair is seen as a great victory for the US. “Ladies and gentlemen, we got him,” US administrator L. Paul Bremer told a news conference. “The tyrant is a prisoner.” Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez, the head of US-led forces in Iraq, said that the former President “has been cooperative and is talkative.” He described Saddam as “a tired man, a man resigned to his fate.” "
Interesting coincidences.... (now granted, devil's advocates, the district may be a relatively wide area) nevertheless, all three events (UNMOVIC hopeless nuke search in March 2003; Saddam rathole capture;, three found Iraqi nukes) all in the same specific area, in a country the size of California. Hmmm.
Titrik is Saddam's home town, the location of his most loyal followers, the people most motivated to lead inspectors astray.
Some thoughts: the 18 feet of concrete may be sufficient to shield radiation from ordinary inspection.
Then again, the nuclear material might be missing, or might be stored at a different location
Then again, the nuclear material may not exist, and is something that would have been obtained or manufactured after the U.N. inspections ended.
Do you speak Arabic, too?