http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&e=4&u=/nm/20041011/wl_nm/iraq_un_nuclear_dc_2Equipment and materials helpful in making bombs also have been removed from open storage areas in Iraq and disappeared without a trace, according to the satellite pictures, IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei said.
While some military goods that disappeared from Iraq after the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion, including missile engines, later turned up in scrap yards in the Middle East and Europe, none of the equipment or material known to the IAEA as potentially useful in making nuclear bombs has turned up yet, ElBaradei said.
The equipment -- including high-precision milling and turning machines and electron-beam welders -- and materials -- such as high-strength aluminum -- were tagged by the IAEA years ago, as part of the watchdog agency's shutdown of Iraq's nuclear program. U.N. inspectors then monitored the sites until their evacuation from Iraq just before the war.
The United States barred the inspectors' return after the war, preventing the IAEA from keeping tabs on the equipment and materials up to the present day.Kerry was dead-on accurate in his comments the other night at the debate that lack of planning and lack of troop strength left these sites unguarded.
And then for the US to not allow UN inspectors back in to monitor these sites? Are we just TRYING to give this material to terrorists??