Posted on 12/31/2003 5:04:02 PM PST by Sub-Driver
US confirms uranium seizure By Matthew Lee in Washington January 1, 2004
THE United States today confirmed it had led an operation to seize uranium enrichment components from a German freighter headed for Libya that may have sealed Tripoli's decision to publicly renounce weapons of mass destruction this month.
"A ship was diverted based on intelligence it was carrying centrifuge parts in early October," State Department spokesman Adam Ereli told reporters, calling it "a significant and important development".
He declined to discuss specifics of the operation - details of which were first reported in The Wall Street Journal and confirmed to AFP by senior US officials - but said it showed the value of the US-led Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).
"What this incident shows is that the PSI is robust, producing results, fulfilling the mission for which it was intended," Ereli said.
PSI was launched by US President George W Bush earlier this year to prevent the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
Notice "in parenthesis" and "append". That's not ALTER. And if you don't like the way the original poster left the title, then that's your problem.
I'd say you were whining because you were drawn to read an article based on the title and was annoyed it wasn't about what was in the headline.
But after reading through the posts and watching you complain so much about others not "getting the concept" you don't get, I realized you just like to whine.
"That wasn't an "alteration"...it was a COMMENT ADDED..."LOL, adding a comment IS an alteration! (At least it is in the English language!) ALTER - 1. To cause to be different; change; modify; transform. Since the FR title was clearly different from the original story title, it was, by definition, "altered".
You chose to jump into this discussion head first and attack without bothering to even enquire about the nature of the change being sought. You just jumped to an unwarranted conclusion. And your present confusion about the meaning of "altered" in no way mitigates either of those failures. Next time ask first and save us both the trouble.
--Boot Hill
"The TITLE was NOT "altered"...comment was added"Before I respond to your post, please indicate which "TITLE" you are referring to. Would that be the FR Title, that appears at the top of the thread, or would that be the original story title, as it appears on the news website?
Please clarify.
--Boot Hill
And for good reason too. In the past, the world's nations have gone 'nuke' in self-defense.
While the Superpowers had nukes and got the UN to pass a resolution that no one else could, the rest of the world saw the "DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO" efforts from the superpowers and ignored it.
Each country sought to protect itself, knowing that the UN and it's resolutions were being ignored.
Each country did not WANT to have NUKES, but did so out of self-protection. Were they to feel that all other countries were going to follow the NO NUKES POLICY, they would do the same.
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME in current history that these other countries feel that it will be possible to DISARM.
WHY?
President Bush is why. We know it.
TAKE AWAY the NUKES from the terrorists, from Saddam, and guess what?
--Boot Hill
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