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Know all we need is some chocolate frosting and we got ourselves some dessert!
Oh, I thought Sadam was trying to BUY more of the stuff, not sell it?
He had already aquired it for the reactor they were building so he could put it online quickly. When Isreal blew it up, he still had the yellowcake, but had no use for it. The santions put in place by the UN put a lot of strain on his ability to get enough money to continue to pay his generals (the guys keeping him in power).
The bottom line. He decided to sell it to the highest bidder (i.e. terrorist orgs) to raise money. No legit org. could buy it because of the trade embargo. He was pretty much left with only one group that he could sell it to.
Sadam actually had to go to the ruling clerics (sorry, I forget the name of the ruling clerics org.) to get permission to sell to terrorists since the use of nuclear material was banned by the org.. They said the use of nuclear weapons or nuclear material was a sin against Alah. He was able to get them to change their minds and give permission as long as it wasn't used in any Arab country.