BAGHDAD, Dec 28 (Reuters) - An Iraqi scientist said on Saturday U.N. arms experts had exaggerated the outcome of an interview with him as part of a hunt for alleged banned weapons.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors interviewed on Friday Kathim Mijbil, a metallurgist from the al-Rayah Company which is an arm of Iraq’s Military Industrialisation Commission.
Mijbil told a news conference in Baghdad that he had been involved in restoring aluminium tubes for possible use in short- range missiles but denied he had any links to past banned weapons programmes or any current such activity.
“This programme has attracted considerable attention as a possible prelude to a clandestine nuclear programme,” he said.
I strongly deny this," Mijbil said. “Frankly I’m very disturbed…over these statements because they don’t relate to reality. Does cleaning an aluminium tube from corrosion with basic chemicals…lead to a secret programme?”
He said the U.N. statement bordered on fabrication and was grossly exaggerated.
“There may be some political agenda or to escalate the situation,” Mijbil said.
He said he turned down the inspectors’ request to hold the interview at their headquarters and later agreed to meet them at al-Rasheed Hotel with an Iraqi monitoring official present.
**Asked why he refused to go to the headquarters, he said: “I look at this place Guantanamo Bay and I am not a prisoner, I am a free Iraqi man.” **
The United States holds scores of mainly Arab prisoners in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in its “war against terrorism”.
**“My interview was in my country with the presence of the (Iraqi) representative…and you saw what happened in the press so what will the situation be when anybody…is interviewed abroad?” the British-educated scientist said. **
**“There will be lots of misunderstandings, fabrications and lies.” ** :nono:
UN lies about Iraqi scientist interview!
More lies man these americans and there stooge admin department famously known as the UN will do anything for a dollar even if it means killing thousands of innocent muslims in iraq disgraceful :mad2: