Nuclear secrets leaker found
Yes they had a nuclear program...before 1991, we already knew this. Saddam was contained, inspectors were in the country, and they had no active nuclear programs. If you see this as sufficient reason to go to war, then you must see making the information freely available to anyone was a monumental blunder.
Did Iraq have to have an active nuclear program for it to be a threat? Iraq having nuclear program parts and "charts, diagrams, equations and lengthy narratives about bomb building" was not a threat in Sadamm's hands, but it is threat posted on the internet?
Nuke program parts unearthed in Baghdad back yard
(CNN) -- The CIA has in its hands the critical parts of a key piece of Iraqi nuclear technology -- parts needed to develop a bomb program -- that were dug up in a back yard in Baghdad, CNN has learned.
The parts, with accompanying plans, were unearthed by Iraqi scientist Mahdi Obeidi who had hidden them under a rose bush in his garden 12 years ago under orders from Qusay Hussein and Saddam Hussein's then son-in-law, Hussein Kamel.
U.S. officials emphasized this was not evidence Iraq had a nuclear weapon -- but it was evidence the Iraqis concealed plans to reconstitute their nuclear program as soon as the world was no longer looking....
Obeidi told CNN the parts of a gas centrifuge system for enriching uranium were part of a highly sophisticated system he was ordered to hide to be ready to rebuild the bomb program.
"I have very important things at my disposal that I have been ordered to have, to keep, and I've kept them, and I don't want this to proliferate, because of its potential consequences if it falls in the hands of tyrants, in the hands of dictators or of terrorists," said Obeidi, who has been taken out of Iraq with the help of the U.S. government.
Obeidi also said he was not the only scientist ordered to hide that type of equipment.
"I think there may be more than three other copies. And I think it is quite important to look at this list so they will not fall into the hands of the wrong people," he said.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/06/25/sprj.irq.centrifuge/
Both you and the New York Times thinks that this information about the Iraq nuclear program was dangerous enough that Iran could have used it to help their program. If that is true then how could it not be a threat in the hands of Sadamm? Couldn't he easly restart the program when the international community's attention waned?
What about the other FMSO documents that were found in Iraq after the war that are listed above in my previous posts? The New York Times has verified their authenticity . What about the
IIS memo written four days after 9/11 that worried the US would discover Iraq's ties to Osama bin Laden?
1. Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban Group in Afghanistan were in touch with the Iraqis and that group of the Talibans and Osama Bin Laden had visited Iraq.
2. The United States of America has evidence that the Iraqi government and Osama Bin Laden's group expressed cooperation among themselves in bombing targets in American.
3. In case Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban were proven to have been involved in carrying out these terrorist operations, it could be possible that the United Stated will attack both Iraq and Afghanistan.
4. The Afghani consul heard about the connection between the Iraqis and the Osama Bin Laden group during his stay in Iran.
5. Upon what has been presented we suggest writing to the Intention Committee with the above information.