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U.S. find led to Gadhafi decision
Washington Times ^ | Thursday, January 1, 2004 | By Barry Schweid

Posted on 01/01/2004 1:38:48 AM PST by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:11:20 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

The United States intercepted an illegal shipment of thousands of parts of uranium-enrichment equipment bound for Libya in October, leading to Tripoli agreeing to cap its weapons program, U.S. officials confirmed yesterday.

Senior State Department official John R. Bolton plans to fly to London today to make plans with Britain for holding Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi to his pledge to dismantle his nuclear-weapons program.


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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gadhafi; iaea; libya; libyanukes; moammargadhafi; mohamedelbaradei; psi
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To: cars for sale
the media knew this and the politicians too but lied hourly that we were in a quagmire.... if that ain't treason, it is surely a second cousin.

bump!

41 posted on 01/01/2004 7:00:11 AM PST by JohnHuang2 ("GW is driving the Rat Lunatics into a deeper (QUAGMIRE OF) insanity every day," says Grampa Dave)
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To: JohnHuang2
I have died and gone to freeperland...got a BUMP for the man, John Huang2. .jumpin jehosafat YEHAWWWWWWWWW

lol
42 posted on 01/01/2004 7:05:35 AM PST by cars for sale
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To: cars for sale
Way to start the New Year, eh? hehe! Happy New Year to you and yours, friend.
43 posted on 01/01/2004 7:07:38 AM PST by JohnHuang2 ("GW is driving the Rat Lunatics into a deeper (QUAGMIRE OF) insanity every day," says Grampa Dave)
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To: JohnHuang2
just awesome...right in there with curing cancer...lol
44 posted on 01/01/2004 7:09:58 AM PST by cars for sale
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To: cars for sale
lol
45 posted on 01/01/2004 7:10:16 AM PST by JohnHuang2 ("GW is driving the Rat Lunatics into a deeper (QUAGMIRE OF) insanity every day," says Grampa Dave)
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To: cars for sale
some are liked here John, some surely needed, some
great posters, but my friend, you are flat out loved.
46 posted on 01/01/2004 7:11:46 AM PST by cars for sale
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To: JohnHuang2
FIN DLED??
47 posted on 01/01/2004 7:12:49 AM PST by Twinkie
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To: JohnHuang2
From Globalsecurity.org:
On June 15, 2003 eleven nations agreed on a version of the Proliferation Security Initiative, called the Madrid Initiative for the city where the agreement was reached. The Madrid Initiative was endorsed by Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Australia. The iniative proposed strategies for intercepting cargos suspected of containing chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, or missile components. The US has announced an increase in surveillance in the area in addition to increased interdiction by Japan, South Korea, and Australia.

48 posted on 01/01/2004 7:18:28 AM PST by cebadams (much better than ezra)
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To: Ranger
"...Others, however, said they were concerned at the time that the seizure might undermine the attempt to win Libya's cooperation. "It could have derailed the effort," said a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity...."

Correction: Who spoke on condition that we not reveal he was a cowardly democrap- "oh no we found what we were looking for- evidence- I hope it doesnt make the bad guys mad- oooh wahhhh"

49 posted on 01/01/2004 7:25:27 AM PST by Mr. K
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To: Mr. K
additional point- I can just picture our Beloved "W" or Rummy or one of the other REAL MEN in W's govt. bitch-slapping a wuss like that....
50 posted on 01/01/2004 7:27:28 AM PST by Mr. K
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To: VOA
This can't be true. The nice people on the TV news have assured us that it was "10 years of diplomacy" (hmmm, who was President for most of those 10 years?) that caused Khadaffi to come clean!
You stole my post!
51 posted on 01/01/2004 7:28:09 AM PST by Clara Lou
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To: Lazamataz
Jappy New Year!!!
Are you wishing her a sushi-filled 2004?? LOL
52 posted on 01/01/2004 7:31:51 AM PST by Clara Lou
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To: JohnHuang2
Presented with Gadhafi's open admission, Ritter went on to accuse the Bush administration of deliberately planting the incriminating WMD evidence to humiliate poor Gadhafi and divert attention from the failure to find WMD in Iraq ;-)

Or is this actually a portion of Iraq's WMD's and where the nuclear WMDs were headed for both safe keeping and their continued development?

Next up: possible exposure of North Korea's involvement in all this?

53 posted on 01/01/2004 7:44:15 AM PST by Agamemnon
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To: Agamemnon
Wouldn't rule it out.
54 posted on 01/01/2004 7:45:34 AM PST by JohnHuang2 ("GW is driving the Rat Lunatics into a deeper (QUAGMIRE OF) insanity every day," says Grampa Dave)
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To: Clara Lou
You stole my post!

Although I can't keep up with all the news-media flood, I don't think I've
yet heard Bill Clinton step forward to crow about this suppossed triumphant
culmination of these "10 years of diplomacy".

I suspect after the account of the absolutely flaccid response by Clinton and his
officials (except for Richard Clark, IIRC) to the USS Cole bombing, as detailed in
"Losing Bin Laden", maybe Bill Clinton has (wisely) decided to stay toward
the edge of the media spotlight for awhile.
55 posted on 01/01/2004 9:51:41 AM PST by VOA
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To: TexasCajun
Germans were somen of the good guys in this story. The German company was simply hired out to bring cargo from point A to point B.

Once they were notified by GERMAN authorities what was going on they went to a FRIENDLY italian port and helped.
56 posted on 01/01/2004 10:01:38 AM PST by STFrancis
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To: Graymatter
"Findled" has a suspicious, beaurocratic, underhanded sound - like "fondled" combined with "spindle".

Happy New Year!
57 posted on 01/01/2004 10:13:10 AM PST by little jeremiah
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To: longjack
had been on a German freighter underway from a gulf state port to Libya when it was seized in October.

One wonders which "Gulf State" this port was in, and where the centrifuges came from. Maybe they were formerly the property of the guy who was dragged from the hole under the date tree?

58 posted on 01/01/2004 10:22:49 AM PST by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: VOA
Hmmmm
Clinton...flaccid
Posotovely Freudian!
59 posted on 01/01/2004 10:44:22 AM PST by Clara Lou
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To: Clara Lou
Geesh-- "positively"
60 posted on 01/01/2004 10:44:51 AM PST by Clara Lou
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