U.S. Wanted Secrecy In Uranium Deal: Cameco

A Canadian company that acquired a reported 550 tonnes of yellowcake uranium from Iraq says that the U.S. military wanted the deal to be kept quiet.

"We were following the request of the U.S. government,'' Saskatoon-based Cameco Corp. spokesperson Lyle Krahn told The Canadian Press of the clandestine route the material took to get out of Baghdad and to Canada.

The yellowcake has been described as the last remnant of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's nuclear program.

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