“Environmental group Greenpeace launched a campaign on Saturday to give Iraqis clean water barrels in exchange for contaminated containers they have been using which were looted from a nuclear complex.” Reuters AlertNet Readers of FmH know how concerned I have been about the underreported story of the looting of the contaminated barrels in Tuwaitha and the dumping of the nuclear material into the local ecosystem. This was a function of weeks of negligence by occupying American forces who had been alerted to the potential for disaster at the unguarded nuclear facility. US officials downplayed the danger until it was publicized that Iraqis were using the containers to store food and water. They have offered to buy the barrels back for $3 each but, according to Greenpeace, the US offer is useless as a replacement barrel would cost a family the equivalent of around $15.