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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Washington has spirited 1.8 tons of enriched uranium out of Iraq (news - web sites) for safekeeping, more than a year after looters stole it from a U.N.-sealed facility left unguarded by U.S. troops, U.S. and U.N. officials said on Wednesday.
The slightly enriched uranium, which could be used in a dirty bomb, was airlifted to an undisclosed U.S. site after its removal from the Tuwaitha nuclear complex south of Baghdad, a one-time center of Iraq's nuclear weapons development program.
U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham (news - web sites) called the shipment to a secure Department of Energy (news - web sites) facility "a major achievement for the Bush administration's goal to keep potentially dangerous nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists."
"It also puts this material out of reach for countries that may seek to develop their own nuclear weapons," Abraham said in a printed statement making no reference to