The continued attention to Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame and Iraq's alleged interest in Niger's yellowcake uranium ore led me to look for a source that would have something useful to say about the likelihood that Iraqis could have gotten uranium another way -- simply by mining it domestically.
For this purpose the U.S. Geological Service's Minerals Yearbook seemed like a good place to start. All of the issues from 1994 onwards are on the web. Reading them (Acrobat Reader enables rapid searches for terms like "uranium") revealed some interesting material and raised some new questions. For the details, go to
http://tmckforeignpolicy.blogspot.com/