August 12, 2026
Yellowcake in Syria: Proof Saddam Had it?
Timothy Birdnow
I remember when the U.S. invaded Iraq and there was clear evidence of convoys moving from Iraq to it's neighboring Baathist Party-controlled country of Syria. At the time many of us said they were moving nuclear material. The hapless Bush Administration did what Karl Rove always advised - just moved on instead of making an issue of it.
Well...
How, pray tell, did Syria get nuclear material in the first place?
The article states:
The secret nuclear program which had been developed under the Assad regime with the help of North Korean experts in the mid 2000s centered on the Al-Kibar reactor, which was mostly destroyed after Israel bombed it in 2007. However, several research-and-development and storage sites, mostly inactive, reportedly remained.
After the toppling of the Assad regime, the IAEA signed an agreement with the new Syrian government allowing it to visit the Al-Kibar reactor and several other sites connected to Syria’s prior nuclear activity.
One of the facilities Israel was closely monitoring over the past two years was called "Site 99.” According to two Israeli officials, the Assad regime stored nuclear material as part of the Al-Kibar nuclear reactor project.
Maybe they produced some of it on their own and maybe they got some of it from Iraq. Certainly the Syrians - close allies of Iraq - have now admitted to a clandestine nuclear weapons project. Why is it hard to believe the Hussein regime moved their nuclear stockpile into Syria?
Like many of us said all along.
We were told over and over that there was no nuclear material in Iraq and that "Bush lied and people died". But did he? This suggests he did not.
The program was inactive for many years; what does that tell us? The invasion of Iraq undoubtedly unnerved the Assad Regime in Syria, and they thought discretion the better part of valor.
You will note this says the program began in the mid 2000nds, just about the time Saddam Hussein would have moved his material to Syria as the U.S. was invading. It seems unlikely the Syrians would START a nuclear program after seeing what happened to Iraq at this moment in history. More likely they had a clandestine one going and then made a big leap forward when Iraq shipped them the material they needed.
Most of this material was yellowcake uranium. From Chad maybe? At any rate it was unprocessed. The article mentions the laughable "dirty bomb" scenario. Ridiculous and stupid. A "dirty bomb" is just an instrument of terror; it is no more radioactive than an x-ray even at ground zero. Less the farther away you are. The only value in a dirty bomb is to frighten ignorant people because, like, radiation and stuff!
Yellowcake is too valuable to waste on a dirty bomb. If you want one you should go dig up nuclear waste from containment sites.
At any rate I think this proves the claim Saddam Hussein had no yellowcake was probably a lie. But so much was back then.
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