A spokeswoman for the International Atomic Energy Agency has said that hundreds of radioactive sources are still unaccounted for from the Tuwaitha complex in Iraq, the main center in former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program, the Glasgow Sunday Herald reported Sunday (see GSN, July 16).

As many as 400 sources are still missing from Tuwaitha, which was found in April to have been looted, according to IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming.  A source for the Sunday Herald said he was approached to help sell uranium oxide in the southern Iraqi city of Basra for $250,000.  The source said he believed the material came from the Tuwaitha complex (Pratt/Arbuthnot, Glasgow Sunday Herald, Aug. 3).

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