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Iraqis near nuclear site took ore barrels home
In war's chaos, thirsty villagers drank from contaminated containers
New York Times via SF Chronicle -- June 8, 2003

Patrick E. Tyler, New York Times

"We had to find something to bring water," said Idris Saddoun, 23.

They say they broke into the warehouse, emptied hundreds of radioactive barrels of their yellow and brown mud, took them to wells and canals and filled them with water for cooking, bathing and drinking. The barrels had held uranium ores, low-enriched uranium "yellowcake," nuclear sludge and other dirty byproducts of nuclear research.

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