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  • n  an impure mixture of uranium oxides obtained during the processing of uranium ore

  • Also that month, CIA officials included the Brits' yellowcake story in their classified 90-page National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's weapons programs.
  • The Iraqi diplomat at the center of the 'yellowcake' allegations says he was, indeed, trying to get Niger's president to break the embargo on Iraq by flying to Baghdad, not by .
  • Allegations of Iraq buying uranium yellowcake from Niger were disproved almost a year before President Bush's State of the Union address.
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  • Bob Woodward in The Public Record
    Woodward said he also met with Libby on June 27, 2003, and was told that "the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, mentioned 'yellowcake' and said there was an effort by the Iraqis to get it from...
  • John Bolton in CNN
    We view with great concern the IAEA report that Iran is about to convert 37 tons of 'yellowcake' uranium into uranium hexaflouride gas, as well as Iran's recent announcement that it intends to test its gas centrifuge cascade,said...
  • Mohammad Saeedi in FOXNews
    We converted all the 37 tons of uranium concentrate known as yellowcake (search) into UF-4 at the Isfahan Uranium Conversion Facility before we suspended work there,Saeedi said.

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