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Niger has two uranium mines in the Sahara desert. One's flooded. The other is run by COGEMA, a French subsidiary jointly controlled by the Japanese and Germans. Five hundred tons of yellowcake is not an off-the-books size transaction. It represents a 40 percent production increase in the nation's annual output of uranium. A sale that size would leave a huge paper trail. Any documentation would, by law, have to be signed by the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and the Minister of Mines. But say it was an off-the-books deal. How do you hide the transportation of 500 tons of anything, let alone lightly-refined uranium. You're talking 50 semi-tractor trucks on one road through villages where nothing passed for months except maybe one bush taxi. It would be the biggest event for months. To say they forgot is like kids forgetting Christmas
Niger has two uranium mines in the Sahara desert. One's flooded. The other is run by COGEMA, a French subsidiary jointly controlled by the Japanese and Germans. Five hundred tons of yellowcake is not an off-the-books size transaction. It represents a 40 percent production increase in the nation's annual output of uranium. A sale that size would leave a huge paper trail. Any documentation would, by law, have to be signed by the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and the Minister of Mines. But say it was an off-the-books deal. How do you hide the transportation of 500 tons of anything, let alone lightly-refined uranium. You're talking 50 semi-tractor trucks on one road through villages where nothing passed for months except maybe one bush taxi. It would be the biggest event for months. To say they forgot is like kids forgetting Christmas
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Niger has two Uranium mines in the Sahara desert
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One s flooded
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The other s run by COGEMA a French subsidiary jointly controlled by the Japanese and Germans
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500 tons of Yellowcake is not an off the books size transaction
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represents a 40 production increase in the nation s annual output of uranium
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A sale that size would leave a huge paper trail
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Any documentation would by law have to be signed by the Prime Minister
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Foreign minister and the Minister of the mines But say it was an off the books deal
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How do you hide the transportationof 500 tons of anything
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let alone lightly refined uranium
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You re talking fifty semi tractor trucks on one road
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through villages where nothing passed for months except maybe one bush taxi
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It will be the biggest event for months
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To say they forgot
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it s like kids forgetting Christmas
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Movie Summary
CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.
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