Ben Mathis-Lilley has a
Slate article about fresh trouble in Iraq:
Reuters has a scoop out of Iraq:
Insurgents in Iraq have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in the country's north, Iraq told the United Nations in a letter appealing for help to "stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad".
Nearly forty kilograms of uranium compounds were kept at Mosul University, Iraq's UN Ambassador Mohamed Ali Alhakim told UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in an 8 July 2014 letter obtained by Reuters.
It could be worse, though:
A US government source familiar with the matter said the materials were not believed to be enriched uranium and therefore would be difficult to use to manufacture into a weapon. Another US official familiar with security matters said he was unaware of this development raising any alarm among US authorities.
The New York Times backs up the notion that the threat posed by the seizure is limited, quoting an International Atomic Energy Agency (photo is of their headquarters) representative who says the news likely does not present "a significant safety, security or nuclear proliferation risk.
Rico says wasn't this why we went into Iraq the
first time?
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