For Cliff, Tweety, and the rest of the bird brains here...


Associated Press exclusive -

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program — a huge
stockpile of concentrated natural uranium — reached a Canadian port
Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week
airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.

The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" — the seed material for
higher-grade nuclear enrichment — was a significant step toward closing
the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and
Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or
smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.

What's now left is the final and complicated push to clean up the
remaining radioactive debris at the former Tuwaitha nuclear complex
about 12 miles south of Baghdad — using teams that include Iraqi experts
recently trained in the Chernobyl fallout zone in Ukraine.

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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g...5BV2QD91O4NJ82