[lit-ideas] Re: Hitchens' Hypothetical Iraq War
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 04:49:45 -0800 (PST)
If Saddam and his sons were able to transport WMDs or
nuclear material out of Iraq, why did not they
transport themselves out of Iraq ? Why did they stay
waiting to be killed in country villas or captured in
villages ?
O.K.
--- Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "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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