Yellowcake Found in Rotterdam Harbor May Have Originated in Iraq

AP ^ | Jan 15 2004 | Toby Sterling

[ZOTnot]

Uh, oh!

Blister agents. (If true, We're getting closer....)

[FBD]

good post
thanks for the info.

[FBD]

MSNBC - Cyanide & Mustard Agents Found in Euphrates River MSNBC | 4/04/03

[finnman69]

MARY HELP!

[Henchman]

"uranium oxide can be processed into enriched uranium usable in a nuclear weapon - but highly advanced technology is needed. " and ....""Anybody can dig it up and purify it to make the yellow stuff," he said. "It's the separation of U-235 that people are concerned about."

Like you can't use "jellocake" for a dirty bomb and like everyone is walking around with the crap! Yeah. sure!.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Saddam statement from Gitmo:

"I ordered a yellow cake, and this is what they give me. I said, 'you cannot even eat this with green tea and felafel, what is this?' They said 'we do not know, great leader'. I said 'go out and get me a yellow cake, you fools. And go bury this stuff too'. Then I had the thieves put in a wood chipper to teach them a lesson."

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Mortar shells? What mortar shells? OH, the ones that tested positive for blister agents....the ones that were filled with liquid? Oh, the Danes decided that they were mistaken and that they were actually harmless....

Actually, since there were only 36 of them, Kofi Anan, the EU, the DNC, the Dimo Presidential candidates, and the US media decided that they were not worth talking about.

[ordinaryguy]

During their conversation, Clinton was overheard telling Blair that if Blair didn't drop his alliance with Bush, Blair was going to lose his job. Hmmmm? How could Clinton threaten that?

Was he threatening or expressing an opinion?

and what did Clinton know to allow him to threaten that?

Knowing poll results would probably have allowed him to threaten predict that. Many pundits did.

I'm saying Mr. Wilson had no way of knowing that because he never really looked.

What should he have done on his eight day visit that he didn't do? What did the CIA expect him to do on that visit that he didn't do?

I believe the Clintons suggested Mr. Wilson make the trip to Niger.

That is certainly not the idea Novak conveyed in his 14 July 2003 article.

"The CIA's decision to send retired diplomat Joseph C. Wilson to Africa in February 2002 to investigate possible Iraqi purchases of uranium was made routinely at a low level without Director George Tenet's knowledge."

and

"Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him."

There is only one person who had the motive and opportunity to reveal that info.

That seems, to me, like a rather huge leap.

As to motive... Anyone who didn't like Ambassador Wilson or his yellowcake report had a motive to reveal the info.

As to opportunity... According to Novak's 1 October 2003 follow-up article, "it was not much of a secret." He writes that, "It was well known around Washington that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA." If it was well-known that she worked for the CIA, then lots of people had the opportunity to reveal the info.

If we take Novak at his word, then, "It was an offhand revelation from this [senior administration] official, who is no partisan gunslinger."

suddenly Novak is writing this article which says that someone from the admin (not the WH) told him that Wilson's wife is an operative for the CIA.

There is only one person who had the motive and opportunity to reveal that info.

I believe it was Hillary or someone of her choosing; ...The motive was still to embarrass the President and PM Blair and discredit the intel.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you here... It sounds like you are claiming that Hillary (or someone of her choosing) 'outed' Wilson's wife to embarass Bush and Blair and to discredit the intelligence. Either I'm misreading your statements, or else I am just failing to grasp how releasing the info on Wilson's wife accomplished any of those goals.

I know this probably requires tinfoil, but that's okay. I just don't trust Hillary at all.

I don't trust Hillary either, but this requires more tinfoil than I have on my roll.

[CyberAnt]

The outing of the wife was done to cover the operation and to place blame on Bush for the outing .. because Wilson's report was REJECTED by the admin.

In other words .. Bush didn't believe Wilson's report. Wilson got mad. It may seem like a leap from Wilson's mad to the outing of his wife .. but it could have been as simple as Wilson's whining about the admin not accepting his report. Then the idea was hatched that the best way to get back at Bush was to BLAME THE ADMIN FOR OUTING THE WIFE .. which of course the admin didn't do. Remember .. the goal is to discredit Bush's credibility.

[Tunehead54]

Funny - they don't look Jewish - whatever that means!

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[JasonC]

And Iraq wanted 570 tons of uranium because they like using barrels of it as giant checkers pieces in harmless outdoor games...

[Consort]

[absalom01]

Things are getting interesting on the Maas, it seems. Is there any more information in the Dutch press you can pass on to us?

[Gefreiter]

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Osama followers were at the receiving end of radioactive material in The Netherlands. The country is swarming with Arabs and south Pacific muslims, some of whom are not at all interested in assimilating or productively contributing to their new society.

They're only recently strating to reign in their immigration practices, but it seems too little too late.
Demographically, with a declining birth rate across Western Europe, can we expect a muslim, Arabic-speaking Netherlands before the end of the century?

[Tricorn]

"I think we will know who leaked Mrs. Wilson's supposed ID."

This whole leak issue is a diversion from the fact that Joe Wilson politicized his "findings" regarding the yellowcake. The real question is who is Joe Wilson, who sent him on his little farcical mission, and why would he compromise our national security for political reasons.

When Novak started asking these questions, the press/liberals went ballistic over the "leak" -- and this diversion worked like a charm. We're still talking about this non-issue.

[knighthawk]

I am checking Nieuws.nl and De Telegraaf. Nothing on this one. Also nothing yet on forums. But I already suspected that, such news is almost never carried over here.

[Tommyjo]

The ISG has concluded that the results of the second tests on the mortar cache came back negative. A similar cache of mortar rounds were found back in October and also set the meters off. These turned out to have been corroded phosphorus rounds which set off the meters. US mil spokesman have already stated that it is better to go with the initial meter readings and err on caution. The same was for the inital testing of a suspected chemical warhead found at an airbase in Iraq. This registered low on the meter reading, but further analysis revealed that the warhead was not chemical.

[ravingnutter]

FYI:

Iraqi Nuke Hawk Went to Niger (in 1999)

Iraq's trade mission to Niger

[XHogPilot]

Crosslink and bump.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1059336/posts

[Rockitz]

I love cake! Yellow, white, chocolate- they all work for me.