Oops, Never Mind

The Washington Times reports that investigators have concluded that nuclear materials looted from Iraq’s main nuclear site at Tuwaitha pose neither a health risk to those who made off with them, nor a terror risk as part of a “dirty bomb.”
The looting of nuclear materials joins the pillaging of the Baghdad Museum as a pseudo-crisis, trumpeted world-wide in the press, that fizzled out on closer inspection. But the correction will never catch up with the original story.

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