Scoperto materiale NUCLEARE in Iraq

[Mr. Hyde]

Premessa n.1: ce ne vogliono parecchi di questi per creare un`arma atomica.
Premessa n.2: nonostante cio`, questa e` un`altra prova che Saddam fosse (di nuovo) in contravenzione con sanzioni internazionali, avendo attrezzatura utilizzabile per la costruzione di WMD.
Assumption: sono convinto che sia il tip dell`iceberg.

(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, with accompanying plans, were unearthed by Iraqi scientist Mahdi Obeidi who had hidden them under a rose bush in his garden 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 parts and documents Obeidi gave the CIA were shown exclusively to CNN at CIA headquarters in Virginia.

Obeidi told CNN the parts of a gas centrifuge system for enriching uranium were part of a highly sophisticated system he was ordered to hide to be ready to rebuild the bomb program.

"I have very important things at my disposal that I have been ordered to have, to keep, and I've kept them, and I don't want this to proliferate, because of its potential consequences if it falls in the hands of tyrants, in the hands of dictators or of terrorists," said Obeidi, who has been taken out of Iraq with the help of the U.S. government.

Obeidi also said he was not the only scientist ordered to hide that type of equipment.

"I think there may be more than three other copies. And I think it is quite important to look at this list so they will not fall into the hands of the wrong people," he said.

Centrifuges are drums or cylinders that spin at high speed and separate heavy and light molecules, allowing increasingly enriched uranium to be drawn off.

David Kay, who led three U.N. arms inspection missions in Iraq in 1991-92 and now heads the CIA's search for unconventional weapons, started work two days ago in Baghdad. CNN spoke to him about the case over a secure teleconferencing line.

"It begins to tell us how huge our job is," Kay said. "Remember, his material was buried in a barrel behind his house in a rose garden.

"There's no way that that would have been discovered by normal international inspections. I couldn't have done it. My successors couldn't have done it."

Kay said he had mixed emotions when he saw the centrifuge components: "It was a realization that I hadn't gotten all the parts [of Iraq's nuclear program]. So there was a moment of regret, but there was also an exhilaration that now maybe we have a chance to take this to the very bottom."

CNN had this story last week but made a decision to withhold it at the request of the U.S. government, which cited safety and national security concerns.

The U.S. government told CNN the security and safety issues have been dealt with and there is no risk now in telling the story fully.

The gas centrifuge equipment dates to Iraq's pre-1991 efforts to build nuclear weapons.

Experts said the documents and pieces Obeidi gave the United States were the critical information and parts to restart a nuclear weapons program, and would have saved Saddam's regime several years and as much as hundreds of millions of dollars for research.

David Albright, who was a U.N. nuclear weapons inspector in Iraq in the 1990s, said inspectors "understood that Iraq probably hid centrifuge documents, may have had components, and so it is very important that those items be found."

"What it is that Obeidi was ordered to keep was all the information and some centrifuge components, so that if he was given the order, he could restart the centrifuge program," said Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security in Washington.

"In a sense, the program was in hibernation. He was the key to the restart of this centrifuge program, and he never got the order. So in that sense it doesn't show at all that Iraq had a nuclear program. And Obeidi told me that he never worked on a nuclear program after 1991."

Obeidi said he felt unsafe in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion and that he was getting pressure from different corners of the country.

He also said other Iraqi scientists were watching to see if he was safe after he cooperated with the U.S. government.

Now that he and his family are safely out of Iraq, Obeidi said he believes other scientists would come forward with other components of Iraq's weapons program.

Before the Iraq war, U.S. officials said Iraq tried to purchase aluminum tubes that could be used in centrifuges that enrich uranium.

In his March 7 presentation to the U.N. Security Council, however, International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said there was no evidence "Iraq intended to use these 81-millimeter tubes for any project other than the reverse engineering of rockets." (Full story)

U.S. officials, including President Bush, also had cited British intelligence documents indicating Iraq may have tried to buy 500 tons of uranium from Niger, but the IAEA said the documents were obvious fakes.

CNN correspondents Mike Boettcher and David Ensor and producer Maria Fleet contributed to this story.

[Mr. Hyde]

Dove sono spariti i sinistri?

[Mr. Hyde]

In Origine Postato da damps

Saddam e il suo governo avevano fermamente negato di possedere qualsiasi cosa correlata ad armi di distruzione di massa. Ora invece cominciano a saltare fuori..sotterrate sotto case di scienziati...e allora, pacifessi, che si dice?

Potete pure salvarlo e rinfacciarmelo in futuro se sbaglio, ma dichiaro fermamente: presto ne vedremo delle belle, altro materiale proibito saltera` fuori.

Mr.Hyde

[Paolo82]

allora Bush e Blair hanno mentito doppiamente.

La prima volta quando affermavano di sapere con certezza DOVE si trovassero le armi DDM

La seconda volta quando,per bocca di Wolfowitz,hanno ammesso che la storia in questione era solamente un pretesto per ammansire il popolo bue.

Ma tranquilli,col casino che si sta alzando in GB e Usa,sai quanto ci mettono a caricare un paio di Chili di Uranio e a farli rinvenire magicamente a Baghdad...

[Mr. Hyde]

In Origine Postato da damps
ARMI DI DISTRUZIONE DI MASSA
questa era l'accusa che si sono inventati
per giustificare l'attacco all'Iraq...
e non di qualche piece di tecnology

Non giochiamo con le parole: Saddam aveva "confermato" () all'ONU di aver completametne distrutto ogni programma di distruzione di massa. Il ritrovamento ieri prova per l`ennesima volta la sua menzogna.

E Paolo non sforzarti con le solite patetiche teorie di complotto: trattieniti, le armi non le hanno ancora trovate..

[Mr. Hyde]

In Origine Postato da damps
ARMI DI DISTRUZIONE DI MASSA
ESISTENTI.......

ma oggi.. è destino..
si fa avanti con la farsa...

ciao, MR.HYDEVERO

Questa e` la punta dell`iceberg...tientiti comodo alla poltrona. Tanto non devi piu` preoccuparti che Saddam le usi..

[ScimmioneNudo]

La fonte è la CIA, non è che mi fidi molto di questa...in aggiunta si parla di componentistica che per quanto ne so potrebbe avere avuto altri scopi, e ancora che si trovasse in un barile...

E' chiaro che la gente comincia a chiedere conto a Bush di quanto è successo in Iraq, di sicuro la figura di merda fatta (dichiarando che sapevano dove si trovavano ecc.) non sarà dimenticata, mentre rimarranno sempre i sospetti su qualsiasi cosa troveranno. Se avessero voluto eliminarli sarebbe bastato farsi accompagnare da funzionari ONU per dare credibilità a qualsiasi ritrovamento.

[anton]

E FIGURIAMOCI SE PUR DI SALVARSI IL CULO NON NE TROVERANNO ALTRE....
NON PER NIOENTE HANNO PROIBITO A BLIX DI ANDARCI......
ORAMAI QUESTA NOSTRA DEMOCRAZIA OCCIDENTALE è DIVENTATA DA OPERETTA .. ANZI DA FARSA TRAGICA

[A Sinistra]

In Origine Postato da Mr. Hyde
Potete pure salvarlo e rinfacciarmelo in futuro se sbaglio, ma dichiaro fermamente: presto ne vedremo delle belle, altro materiale proibito saltera` fuori.

Mr.Hyde

Sicuramente sì. Hanno impiegato un paio di mesi per far arrivare queste, ma adesso le altre arriveranno a getto continuo.
Un po' lenti questi trasporti, però!

[Tomás de Torquemada]

In Origine Postato da A Sinistra
Sicuramente sì. Hanno impiegato un paio di mesi per far arrivare queste, ma adesso le altre arriveranno a getto continuo.
Un po' lenti questi trasporti, però!

Ma infatti sono davvero sorpreso... poiché pensavo che sarebbero arrivate molto prima...

Bush dovrebbe proprio fare qualcosa per la nazione americana, rimuovendo il responsabile di simili trasporti... speciali...