From the "World Socialist Web Site", I actually found the most thorough summary of the news concerning the Tuwaitha contamination. If you'd like a brief summary of what's been discovered thus far, this is a good article to read. They also editorialize a bit, but I have to say that I'm starting to agree with some of the sharper criticisms: ] Thus far, the Bush administration has stonewalled the IAEA, ] maintaining that it will "eventually" allow its inspectors back ] in, but that there is no immediate plan to grant them a role in ] Iraq. It is carrying out this exclusion despite the fact that ] the UN inspectors are the only ones who have a detailed knowledge ] of what was stored at the looted sites and therefore are able to ] confirm what has been taken. This seemingly irrational refusal to ] allow the inspectors to carry out this urgent task is bound up ] with Washington's determination to prevent any international ] interference in the US installation of its own hand-picked Iraqi ] puppet regime. ] ] The US media has paid scant attention to these "disturbing" ] reports [about Tuwaitha radioactive contamination]. It has ] focused instead on unsubstantiated claims by the Bush ] administration that US occupation troops have found a truck in ] northern Iraq that "could have been used" as a mobile ] biological weapons lab. The Pentagon admits that thus far it has ] found no trace of biological agents on the vehicle. ] ] The relative indifference to what may soon prove the worst ] nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986 underscores ] the predatory character of the US war and occupation. |