11.   Al-Qaida operatives have tried to buy uranium, according to federal court testimony in the United States.

12.   Anatolia said the men had bought the uranium from someone who had smuggled it from one of the former Soviet republics.

13.   Edlow Resources Lt., an international company, will buy the uranium to be re-enriched in Russia, a statement said.

14.   He also testified that he was ordered to buy uranium on the black market in a failed bid to build a nuclear weapon.

15.   Indonesia is exploring the possibility of buying Australian uranium to fuel its proposed nuclear power industry, Australian officials said Thursday.

16.   India has bought enriched uranium from China to run a U.S.-built atomic power plant in a move to avoid angering the United States by reprocessing spent fuel.

17.   Prosecutors say Salim once tried to buy uranium to build a nuclear bomb while he ran front companies for al-Qaida that purchased weaponry.

18.   The environmentalist group Greenpeace accused the European Union Tuesday of increasing the risk of nuclear proliferation by negotiating to buy nuclear weapons uranium from Russia.

19.   The French would buy the uranium after it has been reprocessed and shipped to the United States under a U.S.-Russia agreement.

20.   The government is studying the possibility of buying uranium from several countries, including Australia and Canada, he said.