The article didn't run on the front page, of course, but I did see a version of this report in the Pioneer Press this morning on Page 2:
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program - a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium - reached a Canadian port Saturday to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.
The removal of 550 metric tons of "yellowcake" - the seed material for higher-grade nuclear enrichment - was a significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy. It also brought relief to U.S. and Iraqi authorities who had worried the cache would reach insurgents or smugglers crossing to Iran to aid its nuclear ambitions.
Amusingly, the Star Tribune ran an excerpt of the article on the bottom of page 6 under the cryptic headline "Remnant of Saddam's ambition arrives in Canada."
Who knew Saddam had a nuclear program? I thought that Saddam didn't have any yellowcake. That's what America's favorite couple, Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame, told us, remember? And I thought that we'd established there wasn't any threat from an Iraqi nuclear program. Bush lied, people died, all that stuff, right? Hmmm....
Just a guess - we're going to find out a few more things in the next few months that might, shall we say, alter the prevailing narrative just a smidge.
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