NYT Reporting Friday, Sources Say: U.S. Posting of Iraq Nuke Docs on Web Could Have Helped Iran

Drudge Report ^ | November 2, 2006

[West Coast Conservative]

Federal government set up Web site -- Operation Iraqi Freedom Document Portal -- to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war; detailed accounts of Iraq's secret nuclear research; a 'basic guide to building an atom bomb'... Officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency fear the information could help Iran develop nuclear arms... contain charts, diagrams, equations and lengthy narratives about bomb building that the nuclear experts say go beyond what is available elsewhere on the Internet and in other public forums...

Website now shut... Developing...

[okie01]

Further, in 2003, how far along was Iran in their nuke program? Were they already ahead (but playing patty-cake with the IAEA to buy time)?

By 1999, it turns out, they had already gotten the fusing diagrams for the W-88 warhead -- a "gift" from the Clinton administration.

[wai-ming]

What's that, New York Times?

Iraq had a nuclear program all along? And George Bush did nothing to stop it?

I guess he was too busy removing Saddam from power and preventing him from getting WMD that he had no time to focus on what was really important in the region, like ah, removing Saddam from power and preventing him from getting Weapons of Mass Destrution. Now, wait a minute...

[Mo1]

So this certainly isn't new

Exactly

But what is new .. the NYT is admittig that Bush was right .. Saddam was working on trying to get nukes

[GodfearingTexan]

the iranians, with millions and probably billions in money available to fund nuclear science and research, AND with the assistance of a host of bad nations, including Russia, China, North Korea, and at one time Libya, AND with active centrifuges working or in stages of development, had no idea how to actually develop a nuclear device UNTIL the US put up some captured iraqi drawings.......

[MOgirl]

Hello,

BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glad to be here, MOgirl

[gov_bean_ counter]

I repeat the question...

Why is the Democrat Party so afraid of a free and open Iraq? It seems to me the Dems started turning against the war in mass when the capture of these documents was revealed and we learned what meticulous record keepers the Iraqis were. There are things in these documents the Dems don't want us to find. I long ago predicted that if the Dems regain control of Congress they would move quickly to do whatever it takes to get this website shut down.

[mware]

you have freep mail

[pollyannaish]

The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans

And there, ladies and gentleman, is the bombshell! It was the CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS that made them do it.

Bwahahahaha! Kevin, you are right. The worst hit-piece ever. Hahaha!

[maine-iac7]

Forward this reply regarding the New York Times article to all our side of the media if you can and whenever you can:

"Saddam was not supposed to keep any documents related or the Know How of how to make WMD whether its Chemical Weapons, biological weapons, or nuclear weapons. If Saddam regime kept such documents of the "Know How" to build a nuclear weapon then they clearly violated the UN sanctions against them and it proves without any shadow of doubt that they wanted to rebuild their nuclear program".

Regards; jveritas.

"Let's Roll, Freepers. Let's get this on the news tomorrow - tomorrows really the last day to get anything going that will effect Tues.

Media emails – the formula: if they hear from 40 tp 45 people on a story, they will cover it. CAUTION: do not mass email - they won’t look at it – email singly.

See my next post below for media email addresses - including e.d hills - she's s tiger...

[mware]

and it was pressure from Congressional Republicans because the NYTimes only reported select information that was leaked.

[maine-iac7]

Media emails – the formula: if they hear from 40 tp 45 people on a story, they will cover it.
CAUTION: do not mass email - they won’t look at it – email singly


e.d.hill@foxnews.com


Brit.Hume@foxnews.com
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Drudge@drudgereport.com
captainsquartersblog.com
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Rush@eibnet.com
Intelligence@senate.gov
captain@captainsquartersblog.com
Pete.King@mail.house.gov
letters@nytimes.com
joe@msnbc.com

And here, for perusing, is e. d. ‘s own web site-

www.hillfriends.com

[pollyannaish]

It would be new if they weren't suffering from BDS. They THINK they are being clever.

[Alfonso1000]

I'm sure Iran's nuclear program is as advanced as Hussein's ever was.

[maine-iac7]

They THINK they are being clever.

shouldn't play poker with a Texas cowboy -

[1035rep]

President Bush is finally being vindicated.

[Mo1]

Why is the Democrat Party so afraid of a free and open Iraq?

If I was to take a guess .. for the same reason they were making friends in South America in the 1980's ???

And the same reason they defended Castro, Arafat and a few other terrorists

[pollyannaish]

It's funny to me that they used them specifically...since they obviously feel that is their greatest chance at gaining control.

Very transparent.

[LikeLight]

Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990’s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein’s scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away.

Okay, if that's the NYT's November surprise, well then...

[pollyannaish]

LOL.

[pawdoggie]

This is really absurd. Iran got their info from A.Q. Khan. He must have known how to build a bomb, his worked for Pakistan. It's not "know how" the Iranians lack, it's fissionable material.