Iraqi Scientist: Saddam two years from nuclear bomb

http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20040613_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ClipMediaID=38298&ak=null ^

[jackmercer]

Al-Fayhaa TV (Iraq/UAE) - 8/10/2004 - 00:01:53

Iraq scientist on tv states that if left alone, Saddam would have finished a nuke in two years.

http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20040613_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ClipMediaID=38298&ak=null

Main page, fourth one down:

http://memritv.org/default.asp

[swilhelm73]

But...but...we've been told that Nigerian yellowcake was for Saddam's birthday bash. ;)

[oolatec]

Well, BBC has a report of the head of Saddam's nuke program, that no plans were ever made after 1991... so who knows...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3556714.stm

[GeronL]

But our media is saying Sadam gave up on nukes after the first war.... who do we believe?? The lying, leftist press or an Iraqi Scientist???

[oolatec]

If you read the transcript: Interviewer: In a nutshell, how much time did Iraq need, before the Gulf War, to reach the manufacturing of a nuclear bomb? Al-Bahdli: According to the information I was privy to at the time, perhaps a limited number of years. Within two years or less, he could have…

[DoctorZIn]

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