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"Harry Hope" |
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17 Jul 2003 10:43:35 PM |
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Second Bush statement on Iraq debunked. The one about aluminum tubes. |
Mr. Obeidi, now in Kuwait, made headlines last month when he dug up
enrichment-centrifuge parts and documents he had buried in his Baghdad
backyard, and gave them to the Americans.
In CIA interviews, he said he hid them on orders from Iraqi leaders in
1991, during the Persian Gulf War, for eventual use in rebuilding the
bomb program, which was dismantled by UN inspectors after the 1991
conflict.
The White House said last month Mr. Obeidi's account was evidence of
the ousted Iraqi government's bomb ambitions.
But U.S. officials did not, at the same time, report the scientist had
contradicted assertions the program had already been revived and the
tubes were part of it.
Asked Thursday in Washington about Mr. Obeidi's reported statements, a
CIA spokesman declined comment.
In his State of the Union address Jan. 28, Mr. Bush offered two pieces
of purported evidence that Iraq was resuming nuclear weapons work.
The first, alleging Iraq had secretly tried to buy uranium from an
African state, was later discredited when Mr. Baute's team found such
claims were based on forged documents of undisclosed origin.
Bush administration officials now contend other, unspecified evidence
supports that allegation but they have not produced such evidence.
The second element in the Bush speech was the tubes.
"Our intelligence sources tell us that [Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein] has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes
suitable for nuclear weapons production," Mr. Bush said.
Spinning cylinders made of aluminum can be used for inferior models of
enrichment centrifuges, which separate out bomb uranium.
The Iraqi government told IAEA inspectors it was buying the aluminum
tubes to make small artillery rockets.
The IAEA then assembled centrifuge experts to consider the question
and on March 7, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei told the UN Security
Council documentary and other evidence strongly supported the Iraqi
version.
Even earlier, before Bush's speech, Mr. ElBaradei had raised serious
doubts about the tubes allegation.
Neither the U.S. military since March nor UN inspectors earlier found
any signs of a revived Iraqi nuclear bomb program.
From The Associated Press, 7/17/03:
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030717.wbush717/BNStory/International/
Second Bush statement on Iraq debunked
A key Iraqi scientist recently told the CIA high-strength aluminum
tubes bought by Iraq weren't meant for nuclear bomb production, as
U.S. President George W. Bush suggested in his State of the Union
address, two experts on Iraq's nuclear program said.
Mahdi Shukur Obeidi, who headed a uranium-enrichment unit vital to
Iraq's pre-1991 bomb plans, "also said that since '91 they hadn't
resurrected a nuclear weapon program," said former weapons inspector
David Albright, a U.S. physicist who acted as go-between for Obeidi to
talk with U.S. authorities a few weeks ago.
The assertion Iraq had revived its nuclear project was central to the
Bush administration's call for war early this year.
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Bush's excuses for war are being shot down one at a time.
Harry
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| User: "Steve" |
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| Title: Re: Second Bush statement on Iraq debunked. The one about aluminum tubes. |
18 Jul 2003 07:58:14 AM |
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Harry Hope allegedly said:
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Bush's excuses for war are being shot down one at a time.
Harry
The sad thing is they were obviously crap BEFORE the war.
That's why the UN and 160 countries countries - and millions of marchers -
tried to tell Bush he was making a big mistake.
Bush: Typical fascist....wants to build a security aparratus to hear
everything.....but can't listen to save himself.
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Steve
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