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Looting of Iraqi Nuclear Site Creates Health Risk

By Deborah Amos
Published June 7, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

U.N. inspectors visit Iraq's main nuclear site for the first time since the U.S.-led invasion. Looters have ransacked the site, carting off materials hazardous to local health. It seems less likely that the site was robbed of material that could be useful to terrorists. NPR's Deborah Amos reports.

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Deborah Amos covers the Middle East for NPR News. Her reports can be heard on NPR's award-winning Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Weekend Edition.
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