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AVZ
07-07-2004, 11:53 AM
Paper raises questions about Iraq's WMD

The New York Times newspaper has reported that US intelligence officials had reason to doubt allegations that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction before the war in Iraq. The report said the CIA had failed to provide US President George W. Bush with information suggesting that Iraq had abandoned its banned weapons programme, long before last year's invasion. It said that between 2000 and 2003 a number of Iraqi scientists questioned by the CIA had reported that all work on illegal weapons had ceased. The paper cited anonymous sources who said the scientists' claims had been uncovered by a congressional panel probing the CIA's pre-war intelligence on Iraq.



Latest what I heard in german news:

radioactive material was found in Iraq at the beginning of the war. It was sent to the US atomic agency.


Anyone who knows more????

Sorry just found a german source:


IRAK

USA fliegen tonnenweise radioaktives Material aus

In einer geheimen Aktion noch vor der Machtübergabe an die irakische Übergangsregierung haben die USA 1,7 Tonnen radioaktives Material aus dem Irak ausgeflogen. Das Uran lagert nun an einem unbekannten Ort.

Washington - Das Energieministerium in Washington berichtet auf seiner Homepage von der Geheimaktion. US-Energieminister Spencer Abraham sprach von einem großen Erfolg für die Regierung von US-Präsident George W. Bush bei ihren Bemühungen, waffenfähiges Material nicht in die Hände von Terroristen gelangen zu lassen.

Bei dem radioaktiven Material handelt es sich überwiegend um leicht angereichertes Uran. Dieses lagere nun an einem geheimen Ort.

Hintergrund der Aktion sind Befürchtungen der USA, dass aus dem Nuklearmaterial so genannte schmutzige Bomben hergestellt werden könnten. Dabei handelt es sich um konventionelle Sprengsätze, die mit radioaktivem Material angereichert werden
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,307544,00.html

MEGR
07-07-2004, 11:58 AM
Yea I found more on the radioactive stuff found.. Prob same as you got there..

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,124924,00.html

Its good that they found that. That could have been really bad if it fell into the hands of someone like Zarqawi, or Al Queda, or any other terrorist organization.

He219
07-07-2004, 12:35 PM
radioactive material was found in Iraq at the beginning of the war. It was sent to the US atomic agency.


Anyone who knows more????

I read something about radioctive materials found in scrap with Al-Samoud Ballistic Missiles recovered in the 17th QR UNMOVIC report (http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/new/documents/quarterly_reports/s-2004-435.pdf), May 28, 2004 ...