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Iraqi police arrest two Iraqis

Feb-16-2004 » Filed Under: Iraq News

MOSUL, Iraq: Two Iraqis were arrested Thursday for carrying a barrel of material suspected to be uranium, a high-ranking police officer told AFP Sunday.

"Iraqi police stopped two Iraqis at a checkpoint north of Mosul. They were carrying a huge quantity of uranium to northern Iraq," said General Hikmat Mahmud Mohamed of the Nineveh province's police department.

One policeman was burned when he touched the barrel and was hospitalised, Mohamed said.

"The two suspects have been transfered to the US forces who are leading the investigation," Mohamed said.

Mohamed added the investigation was being conducted in secret.

A US military spokesman said he had no immediate information on the incident.

The US invasion of Iraq last spring was driven by Washington's fear that Saddam Hussein had or was close to obtaining weapons of mass destruction.

But on January 28, the chief US arms inspector in Iraq, David Kay, virtually ruled out the possibility of finding any weapons of mass destruction.
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