Lancashire's Lord Lieutenant, Lord Shuttleworth, officially unveiled the plaque, which was produced by sculptor and letter carver JohnShaw, with Mrs Finley among a crowd of about 200 there to see it.
Gertz quotes JohnShaw, the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for International Technology Security, who contends - based on information from two reliable European intelligence services - that Russian troops and Iraqi intelligence "almost certainly" removed the missing material from the facility.