[ETL]

"This is not remarkable news- I believe this material was from Tuwaitha and the stockpile there dated back to the late 1970’s when Iraq bought Nigerien yellowcake to produce fuel for its Osirak facility - which Israel destroyed in 1979? After DESERT STORM The UN had the Tuwaitha stockpile pretty much under its observation, if not outright control."-silverleaf, 7/5/08

What kind of control did the UN have after UNSCOM inspectors were removed from Iraq in 1998?

I don't know. That's an excellent question. Here again is a link to yesterday's thread on the subject. Some people there seemed to know quite a bit about it:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041287/posts

[TigersEye]

Thank you. I will look at that. I don’t think 550 metric tons of yellow cake can be seen as harmless no matter when Saddam got his hands on it. That would make a whale of a lot of dirty bombs if nothing else.