Sunni insurgents take over nuclear materials and bunkers full of chemical weapons in northern Iraq

Sunni insurgents take over nuclear materials in northern Iraq

Published time: July 10, 2014 15:28 
Edited time: July 10, 2014 11:28

Iraq says “terrorist groups” have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in the country's north. Iraq's UN envoy has appealed for help to "stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad."

According to Iraq's UN ambassador, Mohamed Ali Alhakim, about 40 kilograms of uranium compounds were kept at Mosul University. He added that such materials "can be used in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction." 

"Terrorist groups have seized control of nuclear material at the sites that came out of the control of the state," Alhakim told UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the July 8 letter obtained by Reuters on Wednesday.

Alhakim warned that the materials could be smuggled out of Iraq.

"The Republic of Iraq is notifying the international community of these dangerous developments and asking for help and the needed support to stave off the threat of their use by terrorists in Iraq or abroad," Alhakim said in a letter.

The UN's nuclear watchdog on Thursday downplayed the significance of the incident.

"On the basis of the initial information we believe the material involved is low grade and would not present a significant safety, security or nuclear proliferation risk," said IAEA spokesperson Gill Tudor.

"Nevertheless, any loss of regulatory control over nuclear and other radioactive materials is a cause for concern."

Uranium can be used to make nuclear weapons, but requires enrichment as well as numerous pieces of technology to produce other components of a nuclear device. But uranium compounds are also toxic and could potentially be used to produce a ‘dirty bomb’, that is a regular explosive device that would disperse the radioactive material to contaminate the area around it.

RT

Isis seizes former chemical weapons plant in Iraq

US plays down threat as Iraq says Muthanna loss means it will be unable to fulfil obligations to destroy chemical weapons

The Islamic State extremist group (Isis) has taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility north-west of Baghdad, where 2,500 degraded chemical rockets filled decades ago with deadly nerve agent sarin or their remnants were stored along with other chemical warfare agents,Iraq has said in a letter circulated at the United Nations.

The US played down the threat from the takeover, saying there were no intact chemical weapons and it would be very difficult to use the material for military purposes.

Iraq's UN ambassador, Mohamed Ali Alhakim, told the UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, in a letter that "armed terrorist groups" entered the Muthanna site on 11 June, detained guards and seized their weapons. The following morning, the project manager spotted the looting of some equipment via the camera surveillance system before the "terrorists" disabled it, he said.

The Guardian

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