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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/05/AR2008070500936.html
U.S. Removes Uranium from Iraq
[AP/Washington Post ] Brian Murphy - 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 - 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.