"The quantity and type of uranium compounds dispersed are not sensitive from a proliferation point of view," said the report by IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei to the U.N. Security Council....
Well, we already knew that there wasn't any weapons grade uranium there, so we already had our concerns on proliferation assuaged. My worry was always that such material could be used for dirty bombs. ElBaradei doesn't seem to address this. Do we have any readers with expertise on this point?
Deeper in the story is the following:
U.N. nuclear inspectors were not allowed to assess the situation at another storage site in Tuwaitha for radioactive sources. That site too was reportedly looted by Iraqis living nearby.
U.N. officials said the U.S. military has provided no information on the status of those potentially deadly sources.
Under the strict guidelines set out by the Pentagon, the IAEA team was only allowed to check on uranium it had stored.
So we really don't have a complete inventory of Iraqi nuclear material at all, do we? Hmm ....