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EXCLUSIVE!! SADDAM HUSSEIN HAD OVER 1 MILLION POUNDS OF URANIUM!!

Oak Ridge, TN—In the first national report from the heart of one of the world’s premier energy capitals, Frankly Speaking has obtained unclassified documents showing that at just one site alone, Saddam Hussein possessed and stored over 1 million pounds of uranium.

With the passage of time as well as Saddam’s death, attention has died and little has been said about what may actually be inside Iraq or may have been moved out to other countries, like Syria, or even the United States. As we’re currently receiving information that Iran is supplying advanced weaponry to terrorist insurgents in Iraq, we do know that there was in fact, uranium inside Iraq…enough uranium at one site alone to produce plenty of weapons.

Unclassified inventory documents in my possession show that over 1 million pounds of yellowcake uranium are stored at one site alone in Iraq. The value of the yellowcake is documented to well exceed a value of 50 million dollars.
While less than 1% of the yellowcake stored in the one site would be U-235 (weapons isotope), 1% of 1 million pounds would be enough U-235 to produce a lot of weapons. So far there is no evidence to show that Saddam had modern capabilities to process the U-235, however, he did possess WWII era enrichment equipment called calutrons—kind of the Model-T of enrichment equipment. Also, Saddam had tried to import enforced aluminum tubing which some think could be used to build centrifuge enrichment process—the modern method of enriching uranium.

Much national controversy has swirled and continues to swirl over intelligence from Niger that showed Saddam Hussein intended to import yellowcake uranium from Niger.

However, documents from Oak Ridge, Tn, the Atomic City, raise more questions about Saddam Hussein’s intentions than any evidence of “intent” in Niger.

In addition to the over 1 million pounds in yellowcake at one site in Iraq, inventory documents also show that Saddam possessed over 600 pounds of UF-4—an intermediate stage of uranium enrichment in several weapons making processes.

While some of the uranium was produced within the area, the majority of the uranium was in fact imported, according to the existing documents in my possession.
Even if uranium stored in one bunker alone in its various stages from yellowcake to UF4, was not what intelligence thought Saddam had, why has the United States public at least not been made aware of the uranium that Saddam did in fact possess and is currently being stored today?

It seems clear that over 1 million pounds of yellowcake far exceeds any amount needed for research only.

In other words, why have no major media outlets, Congress, the Republican Party, or even the President, given the American public the information to make their own decisions regarding the intentions of Saddam Hussein and his storage of over 1 million pounds of uranium? Providing the information on what Saddam did possess is a necessary step in allowing the American public the ability to make their own determination of what Saddam Hussein’s intentions were or were not.

UPDATE: Last night, Fox News carried a story on the release of the IAEA report that is critical of Iran’s nuclear program. One item of interest iis Section F, number 25:

F. Transparency Measures

25. Iran has not agreed to any of the required transparency measures, which are essential for the

clarification of certain aspects of the scope and nature of its nuclear programme. In addition to the

measures mentioned above, these include discussions about information provided to the Agency

concerning alleged studies related to the so-called Green Salt Project concerning the conversion of

uranium dioxide into UF4 (known as “green salt”), to high explosives testing and to the design of a

missile re-entry vehicle (GOV/2006/64, para. 19).

The link is here.

I note the interest of the IAEA’s condemnation in this section because as I reported yesterday, over 600 pounds of UF4 (green salt) were and are being stored in Iraq. If it is dangerous in Iran, surely we must ask what intentions Saddam had with 600 pounds of UF4 (green salt)?

Also, I will be putting the documents up as I’ve said earlier. I am sharing them with mainstream media at this time. In the meantime, printing a news story like this one is often the opportunity to see who doesn’t mind making a fool of themselves. For instance, Christian Grantham of WKRN News Channel 2 in Nashville doesn’t mind showing his incompetence for the world. He says in the comments section:

Yellow cake, Green salt, Purple horse shoes, Blue Diamonds…

Update: Portion of document:

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[...] Terry Frank has a multiple exclamation point exclusive at her site!! Check her out: In the first national report from the heart of one of the world’s premier energy capitals, Frankly Speaking has obtained unclassified documents showing that at just one site alone, Saddam Hussein possessed and stored over 1 million pounds of uranium. (emphasis mine) … Unclassified inventory documents in my possession show that over 1 million pounds of yellowcake uranium are stored at one site alone in Iraq. … [W]hy have no major media outlets, Congress, the Republican Party, or even the President, given the American public the information to make their own decisions regarding the intentions of Saddam Hussein and his storage of over 1 million pounds of uranium? Providing the information on what Saddam did possess is a necessary step in allowing the American public the ability to make their own determination of what Saddam Hussein’s intentions were or were not. [...]

Terry, when did you become such an expert in this field?

[...] Terry Frank says Saddam had 1 million pounds of uranium. [...]

I’m not an expert, Kevin. I just have the information…with documentation, of course.

Terry – upload the document as a PDF file.

Any chance you can put some of that documentation online?

Even if it all turns out to be true–and color me skeptical–the Iraq War is still a disaster.

East Tennessee Blogger Single-Handedly Justifies The War…

Terry Frank thinks she finally found the proof of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Brittney’s not so sure: Frank provides no scan of these classified documents that she has said to have acquired. No link to any documents, either…….

A disaster yes … because our president wimped out and insisted on pandering to the bleeding heart pants-wetters that insist that “winning hearts and minds” is more important than winning the war. Had the military been allowed to actually fight to win, this would be a much shorter effort. As it is, more people have died and more will die unless we go in and just get this job finished.

yes let’s see the document

show your cards

I will show the documents, but not at this moment.

You won’t show the documents at this moment.

Okay …

how about now?

Will you replace your picture at the top of the web site with the document? For our sake? Please?

[...] There’s an interesting conversation taking place over at Nashville Is Talking and Frankly Speaking, you can read it here and here. [...]

Okay, so let’s get this straight:

Documentation regarding uranium stockpiles of uranium are stored not in the Pentagon, where they would actually make sense, nor in the Green Zone in Iraq, but in Oak Ridge, TN where a lone blogger has managed to turn up information that the entire Washington press corps, the White House, the Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs, and a news network of frothing rightwingers looking to run interference for the White House have all managed to overlook them.

The word “implausible” leaps to mind.

Freedonian, remember the nuclear material surrendered by Khaddafi? It’s stored in Oak Ridge. Nuclear materials acquired from former Soviet states is stored in Oak Ridge. The Y-12 facility at Oak Ridge National Lab is pretty much the mothership of weapons-grade uranium. DOE just issued a contract for down-blending 17 tons of highly enriched uranium currently stored at Y-12.

Skepticism seems warranted, but not because Oak Ridge is mentioned. That actually makes the claim more believable.

Actually no, Catha. I’m not even talking about the weapons storage, although that doesn’t seem any more plausible— The government wouldn’t have made an announcement when it was in transit for security reasons, but they certainly would have announced its discovery, if for no other reason than to divest themselves of a well earned repuation as a crew that can’t be trusted to find beer in a brewery.

And the announcement would not have been made by leaking one unclassified document to a blogger. They owe Fox News and Judith Miller some favors.

Oak Ridge is implausible not because of the storage facet of the story— Although it would certainly be smarter to find a way to dispose of U-235 on the same half of the earth that it’s found on. Oak Ridge is implausible because the White House would LOVE to announce this. This story is not breaking in TN.

What you’re saying about the Libyan stocks is partially true— Oak Ridge stores uranium hexafluroide that was once in the possession of Libya. However, hex isn’t fissionable material in and of itself. It’s a processing fuel that is designed to separate u-238 from u-235.

Terry says she has the doc’s, I believe she has the doc’s. Why no one else released or found them ? I don’t know. Perhaps they are recent, perhaps they may be inconsequencial. Are they legitimate ? I think Terry is smart enough to have checked her sources. Why is she not releasing them? She may be holding something really big and unwilling to release it for sake of placating a bunch of naysayers and Bush-bashers.

“I think Terry is smart enough to have checked her sources.”

based on what exactly?

This is news how? It’s been in the (edited for language) ISG report. Look at Global Security, who’s breakdown makes it very clear :

“In June 2004, a joint IAEA and Coalition team verified the inventory of Iraqi uranium compounds—an inventory comprising both imported material and that indigenously produced prior to 1991 (see figure 4).

* During the 1970s and early 1980s, Iraq bought uranium in various forms from the international market. These materials included about 486 tons of yellowcake, 33,470 kg of “natural” uranium dioxide, 1,767 kg of “low-enriched” uranium dioxide (2.6 percent 235U), and 6,005 kg of “depleted” uranium dioxide from Portugal, Italy, Niger, and Brazil.”

For those not used to multiplication, 486 * 2000 brings us to 972,000 lbs. I would not be impressed to hear we’ve found another 14 tons (bringing us to a cool million), given that we’re finding buried chemical weapons on a daily basis.

Good question. Terry’s got some serious evidence to produce.

[...] Terry Frank discovered something the Bush administration, weapons inspectors and all of the world’s newspapers couldn’t find–yellowcake in Iraq. Here’s what locals are saying: [...]

She may be holding something really big and unwilling to release it for sake of placating a bunch of naysayers and Bush-bashers.

This would be a good way to shut us up, would it not? Please don’t tell me scanners are hard to find in TN— I’ve got a second one that I’ll volunteer if she’s short on technology. They’re not unfathomably hard to use, either, so I doubt it’s going to be a lack of technical skill that holds the documents back.

So let’s see them. It’s not about placating me. It’s about proving me wrong.

Santorum tried this same thing. He said “We found them. Got it right here in this document.” Then he found his way into political obscurity….like Terry will.

I thought that was more because rich folk with interesting lifestyles hated the man’s guts enough to get the other guy in office. He was, after all, a fruitcake.

Also, last I checked, Santorum was correct, lending more credence to the concept that even a stopped clock can be right once or twice a day.

So, Gattsuru—

This is in fact not a “discovery” at all, right? Terry Frank’s BIG SCOOP is that the Bush administration has, in fact, not managed to lose the stocks that we already knew he had. An accomplishment given the track record, but hardly what we were led to believe it was.

Congratulations are in order. Terry Frank’s bold discovery is something we already knew.

In other news, I stood on the river bank here in Memphis, saw something on the other side, and decided it looked like land. Following Ms. Frank’s precedent, I have now discovered all land west of the Mississippi.

That doesn’t make sense, Freedonian. I’ll assume it’s bad when we don’t find something we claim to have known about beforehand — that’s not a particularly unusual argument, and one that’s at the heart of the “Bush lied” concept. How is it incorrect when we find something we claim to have known about beforehand?

Yes, we probably should have done more about it, earlier in time, but fifteen years ago five hundred tons of yellow cake just wasn’t particularly scary, compared to trying to get chemical and biological weapons cleaned up.

Today, of course, 500 tons of yellow cake is rightfully frightening. The information, technology, and delivery systems of the world have changed a lot. 500 tons of yellowcake (ignoring, for now, the 1.77+ tons of higher-enriched uranium we took care of) is equal to 400 tons of uranium oxide. By comparison, it probably only took 4.5 tons of uranium oxide to make the Little Boy nuclear device. Fifteen years ago it’d be unusual for anyone out of the Soviet Union or United States (or US Allies) to have access to the purification techniques, but now… well, we found the key parts to better stuff in a scientist’s back yard.

I’ll admit the big capitalization and “EXCLUSIVE” text are incorrect — this is, again, something that was in the ISG report — but given that there were nine comments before my link either requiring a direct copy or expressing a degree of skepticism over a fact that’s been known for two years now…

Well, I can understand why xe might not have heard of the thing until the ‘lucky’ find.

Gattsuru–Please note as well:

“In addition to the over 1 million pounds in yellowcake at one site in Iraq, inventory documents also show that Saddam possessed over 600 pounds of UF-4—an intermediate stage of uranium enrichment in several weapons making processes.”

While my numbers most likely include some that you have referenced, exclusive is my reporting of UF4–known as “green salt.”

Yellow cake, Green salt, Purple horse shoes, Blue Diamonds…

I remember years ago in Oak Ridge a small local newspaper, through a freedom of information act request, uncovered the mercury spill in Oak Ridge that had been covered up for years. Mercury was on the playground of the Robertsville Junior High School and the creek sludge with all the mercury was used for the walking trail. Millions and millions of dollars was spent carrying away all the contaminated soil. To think that Terry would not have the appropriate documentation is wishful thinking on the parts of anti-war Bush haters. Congratulations, Terry!

I would say I know Terry good enough to know that she would not put up something without strong proof to back it up. We will see.When she provides proof will you admit Bush was telling the truth and his reasons leading up to the war were true? I doubt it. For some people it will never be enough. I expect what you will say then will be to the effect of “Well, it is still Bushs fault the war is going badly” “It is not enough proof”"people are still dead” ect., ect. To me and many others I think it is still news. I still see “Bush lied people died” bumper stickers. I still hear “Saddam had no WMDs, no plans to get or make WMDs” I think this kills those arguments.

Why do you think Saddam wanted all this uranium? I think most people will realize it was to make WMDs. (I am not sure but was that another violation of one of his many agreements) I doubt he wanted it to make a nuclear power plant. I think he had enough power from oil production. Nuclear would have been in competition with his countries main money making export.

If you don’t like the war I understand but your reason should be based on facts not bumper stickers.
As I said in my last post. To some “My country right or wrong” has turned into “my agenda right or wrong”. I should have added “My country is wrong even when it is right”.

Yes, that is interesting, Terry, but it’s also not the full-capped title of the post, nor is it what the majority of other comments were questioning. Nor can I confirm or deny it.

It’s interesting if true — uranium tetrafluoride is only one step from the form you’d want to stick into most centrifugal devices, and it’s not particularly simple to refine yellowcake into this substance — but not argued over yet.

In honor of this discovery, I’m going to replace the Hernando Desoto monument in downtown Memphis with a statue to Freedonian instead.

Then we’re going to tear down the statue, dip our fingers in grape juice, and celebrate the liberation of rock & roll.

If the exclusive information is the 600 pounds of uranium hexaflouride, why is the headline “EXCLUSIVE!! SADDAM HUSSEIN HAD OVER 1 MILLION POUNDS OF URANIUM!!”?

Also, the full quotation is “My country, right or wrong; if right to be kept right, if wrong to be set right.” That last part often gets dropped by people too lazy to tell wrong from right.

TNOpinion & Chronic Skeptic:
I can answer/add to both of your posts. The name of the small paper that uncovered the DOE mercury spills was called The Appalachian Observer. It was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for the work of the paper and reporter Ed Slavin. If Terry wishes to share with you bloggers her affiliation with this paper I will let her. But it is sufficed to say that Terry would not be the first investigative journalist in her circle.

As for an idiot like Freedonian, you were eager to pipe off about Terry having some etherial documents to important for some insignificant blogger to get her hands on. Now your tune is that her findings are irrelevant. Sounds to me like you are a pompous ass who has little man complex when somebody with a little gumption shows what a blog can do for enlightening the public. Do us all a favor and stick to your myspace blog.

Catha-my information is exclusive. My documents are exclusive. They aren’t out there…in the public realm. It’s all exclusive and it’s all current…no 1979 information.

[...] Terry Frank has been doing some homework; although there are plenty of areas where Terry and I disagree, this is a story that needs to be heard. [...]

Terry, stop playing Majong and put them up…these totally truthful unclassified documents you found in your 4th graders homework

Yeah Brian, your bully tactics and anonymous tantrums have got me all shook up. Don’t visit again. Or just shut up and go read about Anna Nicole’s funeral or something. You don’t write my paycheck.

It seems like Gattsuru knows some of the technical difficulties in the nulcear weapons process. UF4 is one of the steps in coverting UF6 to the metal required for a nuclear weapon. My guess is that Terry used the million pounds of uramium as a nice headline since few people knew what UF4 was. This (green salt find)at least needs to be addressed/explained by someone in the U.S. government, IAEA, etc. Also, as far as credibility, Terry does TV and radio so if she loses her credibility on this issue, it would hurt her elsewhere. One other thing, best I remember, the theme of her original post was 1. what was Saddam’s intent, and 2. why hasn’t someone in the media or administration at least informed folks about this? Isn’t Terry just letting us know about the information(just like we would like someone to)?

Terry-
As I stated before, if you say you have the doc’s I believe you have the doc’s. What is being lost in this rush to find your story incredulous or at best old hat, is the ramifications of what the story means big picture. I’m sure that plenty of lefties will offer that you can find uranium and weapon components in any country. I’m sure they will next tell us that these materials are only used for testing or energy production. They will finally conclude that even if it were for weapons, why shouldn’t Iraq be able to have nukes and who are we to tell them not to. It is common sense to anyone with any common sense that Hussein was intending to create a tactical nuclear device. Apparently ostriches aren’t the only species that buries its head in the sand.

Malcolm

Terry Terry Terry…….I’m not bullying you. I’m tyring to understand your motives. Women and Men are dying and you hold doucuments that valdiate even further their roles and jobs. Thats good stuff. You could just put the documents up but I think you just want us to look at your picture more and more….waiting…waiting…oh, another IED went off….waiting…waiting….

who would jesus bomb?

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Brian–I appreciate the melodrama. I’ll give you points for creativity.

As for Brittney over at WKRN–well, I refer back to her famous quote that “facts don’t matter.” Her line.

What does she care about this stuff anyway? Doesn’t she have some pictures of cheese or something to highlight?

Mmmm, cheese.

Whay a hippocrit you are, Brian. Men and women are dying? They die everyday on the strrets of this country from car accidents, drugs, medical mistakes, etc. Have you listened to the soldiers serving in Iraq? All I hear about from them is the GROSS distortion of what’s actually going on there by the mainstream media. By the way, Channel 6 News in Knoxville has seen the documents. Now what can you complain about? Oh, you’ll find something. And I would guess you’re in favor of our pulling out of Iraq and leaving all this stuff behind for whomever gets to it first. I hope you’re not in charge of anything!

I had a feeling when I checked by here that a bunch of people would be trying to club the messenger.

Terry, I’m certain you’ll forgive the “incompetence” of those of us that brush aside “exclusives” on the truth for actual proof. We’ve all had our fair share of incompetence over the past 6 years, and it’s not from those Americans willing to demand more from our leaders before committing American soldiers to war.

Until you produce the document you claim to posess, it isn’t worth a box of Lucky Charms, and you should get used to the American people demanding that level of “put up or shut up” before committing American soldiers to war. There are higher prices paid by over 3,200 American soldiers and their families, not to mention the thousands who have lost limbs over the same claims… so spare us the charges of incompetence and produce the documents.

If it is true Iraq had UF4, Bush’s claim that they could have a nuclear weapon in a year’s time looks pretty shaky. The administration has probably been dreading the release of this information because it indicates Iraq’s weapons program was in its infancy.

Kudos to Terry for having the guts to report information that could embarrass the administration.

If he had that much yellow cake why would he need to go to Niger to get more? Even Saddam said about weapons of mass destruction “If I had them don’t you think I’d use them?” If he’s a brutal dictator (which he was and sponsored by the CIA)then why wouldn’t he use WMDs against an invading force?

“While less than 1% of the yellowcake stored in the one site would be U-235 (weapons isotope)”

Actually, you are right there – the documents actually show that less than “.000001%” or .03 ounces was found to be weapons-grade, and since the margin of error of the testing was about the same, the end result is that actually none of it could be shown to be weapons-grade.

Someone needs to take a math class. Now I see why the US trails the rest of the world in science education!

Geeze, either you are part of the Neocon agenda or as Papa use to say:- “Ignorance is bliss, nah, it’s just ignorance.”

Hibbs, I haven’t gotten any of that from the reading. Can you provide documentation/page number?

Natural uranium consists of ~0.72% Uranium-235 isotope. Depleted uranium used by the United States military still consists of ~0.1-0.2% uranium-235 isotope.

If Saddam had any uranium consisting of less than 0.001% U-235 (ignoring for now the “0.000001%”) you’ve claimed), it would be a scientifically incredible discovery — there is literally no known technology capable of doing such a thing.

Are you sure they weren’t talking about that percentage being enriched to weapons grade (in which case, the lack of results is not surprising, and in fact is something to be happy about)?

Gattsiru, I think you’re right. It was the percentage enriched, not the percentage of U-235 in the whole. That does make a lot more sense, doesn’t it?

As for Terry’s documents/claim – didn’t the Defense Department and several American defense contractors already admit to selling depleted uranium shells for chainguns and other weaponry to the Iraqis about the same time that we gave them starter cultures for biological and chemical weapons? I thought that happened at the same time that Rumsfeld and other folks visited Iraq the first time – years ago, before the first war – when he was still our ally and we were supplying them with materiel.

Interesting headline, but I see no proof. I’d be more inclined to want to learn more if you provided actual documentation. Why should we believe you have documents without seeing portions of them? That’s not investigative journalism. That’s essay writing.

Tom, you don’t understand.

Along with the missing WMD — which obviously got shipped to Syria, duh! — was Saddam’s time machine, which allowed Saddam to violate UNSC resolutions befor ethey were enacted, and allowed Dick Cheney’s company to do business in Iraq during sanctions that violated UNSC resolutions, as well.

Rumor has it that Saddam’s time machine allowed Don Rumsfeld to retain more hair in the 1990s than would have otherwise been possible, though others claim it was a side-effect of exposure to “dual-use” chemicals sold to Saddam in that decade.
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