[lit-ideas] Re: Hitchens' Hypothetical Iraq War
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 07:32:37 -0500
"the Iraqi physicist
explains that his nuclear stash was the key that
could have unlocked and restarted Saddam's
bombmaking program."
Seems the logical response is, we could have started a war over the key
that could have unlocked ...
> [Original Message]
> From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 4/1/2006 1:34:13 AM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Hitchens' Hypothetical Iraq War
>
> Here's some stuff from the gray edges...
>
> After he was captured by U.S. forces in Baghdad in
> 2003, Dr. Mahdi Obeidi, who ran Saddam's nuclear
> centrifuge program until 1997, handed over
> blueprints for a nuclear centrifuge along with
> some actual centrifuge components, stored at his
> home -- buried in the front yard -- awaiting
> orders from Baghdad to proceed. He said, "I had to
> maintain the program to the bitter end." In his
> book, "The Bomb in My Garden," the Iraqi physicist
> explains that his nuclear stash was the key that
> could have unlocked and restarted Saddam's
> bombmaking program.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction
>
>
> On February 12, 2006, former Pentagon investigator
> Dave Gaubatz appeared on Fox News Channel and
> claimed he and fellow military investigators
> identified four underground bunkers with five foot
> thick concrete walls in southern Iraq believed to
> hold WMD. Iraqi informants brought these sites to
> the attention of Gaubatz and his colleagues.
> Gaubatz claims that, for various reasons, these
> sites have never been inspected by the Iraq Survey
> Group or the CIA. Gaubatz is making a plea the
> sites be inspected at this time because of the
> recent release of the Saddam Tapes. [63]
> http://www.intelligencesummit.org/news/DaveGaubatz/Gaubatz021206.wmv
>
>
> On February 17-20, 2006, the Intelligence Summit
> aired 12 hours of translated Saddam Tapes at a
> conference outside of Washington, D.C. In one of
> the taped conversations an aide to Saddam Hussein
> asked "Where was the nuclear material transported
> to?" He answers his own question: "A number of
> them were transported out of Iraq." [64]
> http://weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/776ykptd.asp
>
>
> The Washington Times editorialized on another
> moment caught on tape that revealed "Saddam was
> actively working on a plan to enrich uranium using
> a technique known as plasma separation. This is
> particularly worrisome because of the date of the
> conversation: It took place in 2000, nearly five
> years after Iraq's nuclear programs were thought
> to have stopped." The Washington Times also noted
> that former Pentagon official John Shaw spoke at
> the conference about the role of Russian
> "spetsnaz," or special forces troops in the
> movement of WMD out of Iraq and into Syria and
> Lebanon. [65]
> http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060219-092126-1788r.htm
>
>
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