I really love the way government officials always are reportedly "surprised" at the disclosure of secret deals with other foreign governments - C'mon, folks, hard to believe that the head of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility "didn't know" that a shipment of 550 tons of uranium from ANYWHERE was coming into his country!!! Maybe it's time to look for a new head of that organization, if this one is so clueless, eh?
Also, the story mentioned it was a "U.S. brokered deal" and the value of it was "undisclosed" -- excuse me, but I guess it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that SOMEBODY (hmmmm - could it be our own current U.S. administration??) will be profiting immensely from a deal which appears to be so conveniently taking place outside the rules, regulation and public scrutiny of the United States! Not to mention how nice it is not to have to explain to anybody how the U.S. came into possession of such a quantity of Iraqi uranium!! No wonder Iraqi leaders are demanding a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. presence and military forces, eh?