re post no. 14448...your link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1064153/posts "U.N. Official Sees a 'Wal-Mart' in Nuclear Trafficking"
NY Times ^ | January 23, 2004 | MARK LANDLER
Posted on 01/23/2004 6:49:02 PM PST by neverdem
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 23 — The head of the United Nations' watchdog agency on atomic weapons said today that the global black market of nuclear-related material and equipment had grown to the point that it amounted to "a Wal-Mart" for weapons-seeking countries.
Mohamed M. ElBaradei, the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said he was taken aback during a recent trip to Libya by the scale and complexity of the illicit trafficking through which it obtained material and blueprints for nuclear weapons designs.
"All of that was obtained abroad," he said in an interview during the World Economic Forum meeting here. "All of what we saw was a result of the Wal-Mart of private-sector proliferation."
"When you see things being designed in one country, manufactured in two or three others, shipped to a fourth, redirected to a fifth, that means there's lots of offices all over the world," Dr. ElBaradei said. "The sophistication of the process, frankly, has surpassed my expectations."
The Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, invited Dr. ElBaradei and his inspectors to the country last month after pledging to dismantle his unconventional weapons programs."
OMG. We are all in deep, deep trouble. That UN guy should be hung. Why didn't he know about this? It was his JOB.