School kids playing near toxic waste? Secret airlifts of radioactive materials? The latest debacle in Iraq, in which the U.S. has hidden and hideously mismanaged nuclear substances, bears more resemblance to a B-movie than to a typical war film. According to Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham, the U.S. has secretly airlifted roughly 1000 highly radioactive sources from Iraq, leaving the International Atomic Energy Agency in the dark.
"American government is the entertainment division of the Military Industrial Complex."
"One deluded president plus an army of paralyzed editorialists = many more years of a war that is one big atrocity." - Greg Mitchell, Editor&Publisher "I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job." - George W. Bush
7.25.2004
Secret Removal of a Shitload of Radioactive Debris in Iraq
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