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[ONEBGG]

John...Good Post!!! Thank You! EOM

[sarals]

12 year old parts hidden under a rose bush? was that the imminent threat to us? that's a joke if that's all there is...

Iraqi Scientist Gives Up 12-Year-Old Nuclear Parts
Thu Jun 26,12:11 AM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An Iraqi scientist has given the CIA (news - web sites) old nuclear documents and parts that he had concealed for 12 years, a U.S. intelligence official said on Wednesday.

The former head of an old Iraqi centrifuge uranium enrichment program, Mahdi Shukur Ubaydi, turned over "a volume" of centrifuge documents and components he had hidden from U.N. weapons inspectors since 1991.

They were concealed in a barrel buried beneath a rose bush in a garden next to his house, said the official speaking on condition of anonymity.

"This is not a smoking gun," the intelligence official said, noting that it also does not mean that Iraq (news - web sites) had a nuclear weapon. He said the items represented a "complete set of what would be needed to rebuild a centrifuge uranium enrichment program."

The U.S. official characterized the find as an illustration of how Iraqis have hidden their weapons of mass destruction.

"He (Ubaydi) also claimed this concealment was part of a secret high-level plan to reconstitute the nuclear weapons program once sanctions ended," the official said.

"What's significant is these documents and components were deliberately hidden at the direction of Iraq's senior leadership with the aim of preserving the regime's capacity to resume construction of a centrifuge that at some point could be used to enrich uranium for a nuclear device."

Ubaydi voluntarily came forward with the material and he and his family have been relocated, the official said.

President Bush (news - web sites) cited Iraq's alleged stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and evidence of a nuclear arms development program and used that as the main justification for the U.S.-led war against Iraq.

American teams searching for banned Iraqi weapons have still not found any chemical or biological weapons since ousting Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) from power in April.

Failure to find such weapons has prompted critics to suggest that Washington and Britain exaggerated intelligence reports about them.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030626/ts_nm/iraq_usa_nuclear_dc_1

[SoxFan]

OMG an empty bio capable shell. Wow! As you are not aware but the British have said those aren't Mobile Biological Labs but mere Hydrogen producing mobile labs for artillery balloons. These balloons would be used for weather to determine how to shoot their artillery shells because they could not put up planes as they would get shot down.

Oh yes the centrifuge that was buried for 12 years. Do you have a clue? That must have been a very important piece to be buried for 12 years when they had a program up an running when their chief nuclear scientist escaped Iraq and told the weapons inspectors where to look. But nice try anyway.

I'm sure you haven't looked at the timeline of the President on 9-11 nor the actions of the FAA and our vaunted military readiness. They had the warnings and knew four planes had been hijacked yet took no actions going at the breakneck speed of 23% capacity to get at the planes heading toward NY. Of course as the brave President was reading to elementary kids it would not have helped even if they did arrive because only the President could give the order and he was, once again, AWOL.

Now please go and lite those candles in front if the Dubya for President alter and remember to tear up the Constitution while you're at it.

[BullNBear52]

an Iraqi scientist turned in a big load of nuclear weapons production equipment and documentation that was buried in his back yard.

Under one rose bush! Amazing the thing was still growing I guess. Or maybe it was radioactive and it was a giant rose bush!