IS EGYPT TRYING TO SECRETLY MAKE NUKES, TOO?

AP:

UN nuclear inspectors have found traces of weapons-grade uranium in Egypt, IAEA said in a report obtained Wednesday by The AP.
Dated May 5, the restricted report said IAEA INSPECTORS detected the particles last year and in 2007. A senior diplomat accredited to the agency said that it was the first time the traces were reported by the Vienna-based nuclear monitor. He demanded anonymity for commenting on the restricted document.

It was unclear why the agency was disclosing the findings now. IAEA spokespeople did not immediately return calls asking for comment.

In its page-long section on Egypt, the 82-page document said Cairo believes the particles could have come into the country on containers with radio isotopes but said the IAEA was continuing its investigations because "it has not yet identified the source of the uranium particles."
Both high- or weapons-grade and low-enriched uranium can be used to make radio isotopes, which are used in medicine and scientific research. The report said traces of low-enriched uranium also were found at the same site - Inshas, northeast of Cairo, where Egypt's two small research reactors are located.

But highly enriched uranium can be turned into the fissile core of nuclear warheads.

REUTERS:

Egypt ratified the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1981 but not the IAEA's 1997 Additional Protocol that gives inspectors the right to make intrusive, short-notice inspections of nuclear facilities and other sites not declared as nuclear.