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| Iraq |
| Egypt refuses to help interview nuke jockeys... |
| 2003-02-08 |
| Egypt has rejected a U.S. request to interview Egyptian engineers and scientists employed in Iraq's nuclear program. U.S. officials said the regime of President Hosni Mubarak failed to respond to Washington's appeals for information of and access to Egyptian nationals employed in Iraq's nuclear program. The officials said after repeated U.S. efforts the Cairo government responded that it viewed Egyptian nationals who work in Iraq as private citizens. "They said they would not get involved and refused to help us locate them or provide information so we could reach them ourselves," a U.S. official said. "Piss off, George. We're on Sammy's side. Unless he goes down, of course..." Officials said that late last year the U.S. intelligence community received information of the employment of dozens of Egyptian engineers and scientists in Iraq's nuclear program. Some of the names of the Egyptians matched a list provided by Iraq to the United Nations of more than 500 scientists who worked in Baghdad's nuclear program. Probably working on Egypt's nuclear program now... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 Anyone have any information on how much a year we give Egypt and Israel? The last I remember reading it was 2.5 billion to Egypt, 2 billion to Israel. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-02-08 22:09:02 |
| #1 I wonder how many of these egyptian "scientists" got their degrees in the US? I wonder how many middle eastern engineering students have studied in the US? If they could do an audit of who studied in the US, maybe they could come up with some interesting names. But then again there's always Europe and Russia to provide you with a specialized education. |
| Posted by: Rw 2003-02-08 16:53:42 |