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2003-04-10 Iraq

Marines hold nuclear site south of Baghdad

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Posted by Steve White 2003-04-10 12:54 am|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Many of the IAEA's "inspectors" are Arab graduates of the nuclear engineering program at Cairo University. Egypt, which has a grand total of one power reactor, is able to employ only a small fraction of the several dozen nuclear engineers that graduate from the university each year. Many go on to become IAEA inspectors. Slip a few jihaddis into the mix, lobby the IAEA to be sensitive to the ethnicity of the inspected country by allowing inspections to be carried out by fellow Arabs and this outcome isn't at all surprising.

Posted by B. 2003-04-10 02:00:33|| 2003-04-10 02:00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm sure we'll eventually turn up the dirt, although I'm guessing that a lot of it is already in Syria by now. But I will not get my hopes up just yet. A lot of preliminary reports about WMD and mass graves have turned out to be false alarms so far. Jumping all over these reports is burning some of the coalition's credibility (although it's the journalists jumping all over them while Centcom is always scrupulous about their reports). Let's wait and see.

Posted by Tokyo Taro 2003-04-10 04:44:14|| 2003-04-10 04:44:14|| Front Page Top

#3 This is one of the sites used by Iraq's Group 4 & 5 nuclear development teams. http://www.douglasdebono.com/saddam2.htm is a link that suggests this has been going on a lot longer than 4 years.

Posted by Douglas De Bono 2003-04-10 07:24:46|| [www.douglasdebono.com] 2003-04-10 07:24:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Is this surprising? Pardon me, but I don't think so. We always knew we'd find an active nuke program. I'm more interested in having a good, long look underneath a certain mountain NE of Baghdad.

Posted by mojo 2003-04-10 10:18:06|| 2003-04-10 10:18:06|| Front Page Top

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