Nuke component unearthed in Baghdad back yard
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The CIA has in its hands the critical parts of a key
piece of Iraqi nuclear technology -- parts needed to develop a bomb program
-- that were dug up in a back yard in Baghdad, CNN has learned.
The parts were unearthed by Iraqi scientist Mahdi Obeidi who had hidden
them in his back yard under a rose bush 12 years ago under orders from
Qusay Hussein and Saddam Hussein's then son-in-law, Hussein Kamel.
U.S. officials emphasized this was not evidence Iraq had a nuclear weapon
-- but it was evidence the Iraqis concealed plans to reconstitute their
nuclear program as soon as the world was no longer looking.…
The gas centrifuge equipment dates to Iraq's pre-1991 efforts to build
nuclear weapons.
So let me get this right... they found parts to a gas centrifuge buried for over a decade among the rose bushes in a back yard? This was the vital threat?
I'm sorry, but trotting out a witness who is already bought and paid for to say that whatever was buried in his yard for 12+ years was part of an "ongoing" nuke program just doesn't cut it. I'd say it shows precisely how effective sanctions and inspections were -- *precisely* because if (a big "if" given the number of times WMD have been "discovered since the begining of the war) whatever they "dug up" is part of a weapons program, then it demonstrates how it was rendered null and void. Don't think they were enriching much uranium while the centrifuge was full of dirt and dandelion roots....
And BTW, when was the world going to “stop looking”?
Could the attempt to spin propaganda be more obvious?
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