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*Originally posted by Dil he Pakistani: *
"The most devastating blow yesterday came from Mohamed al-Baradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), who asserted that British and US reports about Iraqi attempts to smuggle uranium out of Niger were fake."
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So what else is new...
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It goes on and on…here’s an interesting quote from Mr. Blix regarding “toothpicks” and “lethal weapons”:
Latest Blix report more positive, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 8 March 2003 [selective excerpts]
…] Today, Chief Weapons Inspector, Hans Blix delivered to the Security Council his latest briefing on Iraq’s level of cooperation, and it was largely positive, but his words have done nothing to ease the divisions among nations, who are now meeting to try to find any possible compromise about how to move forward.
…] The destruction undertaken constitutes a substantial measure of disarmament, indeed the first since the middle of the 1990s. We are not watching the breaking of toothpicks, lethal weapons are being destroyed. However, I must add that the report I have today tells me that no destruction work has continued today. I hope this is a temporary break.
…]The Iraqi side has tried on occasion to attach conditions, as it did regarding helicopters and U2 planes. It has not however, so far persisted in these, or other conditions, for the exercise of any of our inspection rights.
It is obvious that while the numerous initiatives which are now taken by the Iraqi side with a view to resolving some longstanding open disarmament issues can be seen as active or even proactive. These initiatives three to four months in to the new resolution cannot be said to constitute immediate cooperation, nor do they necessarily cover all areas of relevance, they are nevertheless welcome.
:rolleyes:
UK nuclear evidence a fake, Ian Traynor
The Guardian, 8 March 2003
And the headlines exposing the US-UK lies being exposed by the UN keep flooding in?
U.N. Inspectors: U.S. Used Forged Reports](Yahoo News: Latest and Breaking News, Headlines, Live Updates, and More)
Now even the mainstream American papers are saying exactly what the UN inspectors have said about the US-UK allegations.
Some Evidence on Iraq Called Fake - U.N. Nuclear Inspector Says Documents on Purchases Were Forged](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59403-2003Mar7.html)
***A number of independent experts on uranium enrichment have sided with IAEA’s conclusion that the tubes were at best ill suited for centrifuges. Several have said that the “anodized” features mentioned by Powell are actually a strong argument for use in rockets, not centrifuges, contrary to the administration’s statement.
The Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington-based research organization that specializes in nuclear issues, reported yesterday that Powell’s staff had been briefed about the implications of the anodized coatings before Powell’s address to the Security Council last month. “Despite being presented with the falseness of this claim, the administration persists in making misleading arguments about the significance of the tubes,” the institute’s president, David Albright, wrote in the report.***