[spoilers] Harry and Ruth Strike Back

[Philippa]

Good point Tea Lady! Of course we can't be sure if everything happened all at once. It's not unlikely that Harry didn't tell Ruth the location until much later, and that she was just there as an interpreter at the time. I agree that it would be odd to discover uranium 2 years after the invasion. What would all the fuss be about at that point, we could ask ourselves.

However, and I've said this before in discussions on other forums as well, the Spooks writers don't seem too fussy about continuity and making all the tiny details fit together, so it might as well be a bit of a mess that doesn't tie in with the time of the invasion in Iraq and Ruth's secondment to Section D.