This article from the L.A. Times is very comforting. Nice job, Bush.

Nuclear Site Stood Unguarded for Days
The lapse points to the larger concern over finding potentially dangerous materials before they land in the hands of terrorists.
By Bob Drogin
Times Staff Writer
April 11, 2003

WASHINGTON -- Three Iraqi warehouses filled with 2,500 barrels of uranium that could be enriched for nuclear weapons -- plus radioactive isotopes that could be used for deadly "dirty bombs" -- lay unguarded for several days this week as Iraqi mobs swirled around. The facility, known as Location C, was Iraq's only internationally sanctioned storage site for nuclear material. It thus was a potential prize for U.S. forces -- or for anyone seeking to steal radioactive material for sale to other countries or to terrorists. Iraqi Republican Guard troops abandoned the site late last week as U.S. armored columns approached the nearby Tuwaitha nuclear research center south of Baghdad. Hordes of looters soon cut Tuwaitha's electric fences and began ransacking homes and offices in the complex, hauling off TVs and carpets in stolen luxury cars. U.S. officials said Marine combat engineers secured Location C on Wednesday after a State Department counter-terrorism task force warned Central Command of the danger.

Experts, though, say the lapse points to a larger concern: the immediate need to find and secure Iraq's nuclear weapons components, ballistic missile manuals, precursor chemicals for nerve gases, microbe feeder stocks for germ weapons, and countless other potentially dangerous materials that could aid terrorists or illegal weapons programs around the world. "There's a tremendous danger now that materials could slip out of the country," warned Rolf Ekeus, who headed United Nations weapons teams in Iraq during most of the 1990s. "It's very important that these sites be taken under control immediately."

Entire article is HERE. Thanks to Jeanne d'Arc for pointing this article out.