Director-General of the Iraqi National Monitoring, Hussam Mohammed Amin has refuted the false allegations released by American and British media reports as well as their allies regarding Baghdad’s actions to reconstruct a banned project.
The media reports claimed that Iraq had being reconstructing a uranium extraction plant at the Ukashat Phosphate Compound after 1998.
Amin, for his part, told a news conference that the plant had been producing the yellow salt from which uranium could be extracted up to the year 1991, according to the official Iraq News Agency Tuesday.
He added that the amount in 1991 was around 168 tons of yellow salt and that the entire amount had been investigated by the International Agency of Atomic Energy as well as by an annual check. He further pointed out that the vast destruction of the project in 1991 left nothing but “ruins”, INA said.
“There is no project for any banned materials especially for (the) extraction of uranium neither in Ukashat nor at any place in Iraq,” Amin conveyed, highlighting that “such US fabrications could never distort facts before the world public opinion”.
Arab, foreign media and television network correspondents visited the site and saw firsthand that the site was destroyed since 1991 and that there was no activity in the site, INA concluded. (Albawaba.com)
