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U.N. agency: Nuclear materials vanish in Iraq<\/p>\n
UNITED NATIONS (CNN) — Equipment and materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons have disappeared from Iraq, warns the chief of the atomic watchdog agency for the United Nations.<\/p>\n
Satellite imagery shows buildings that once housed high-precision equipment that could be used to make nuclear bombs have been dismantled, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a letter to the U.N. Security Council.<\/p>\n
In the letter, IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said that though some radioactive equipment taken from Iraq after the war’s start has shown up in other countries, none of the missing high-quality, dual-use equipment or materials has been found.<\/p>\n
The American government prevented U.N. weapons inspectors from returning to Iraq — thereby blocking the IAEA from monitoring the high-tech equipment and materials — after the U.S.-led war was launched in March 2003.<\/i><\/p>\n
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