After Ending Arms Program, Libya Receives a Surprise

NY Times ^ | 5-29-04 | WILLIAM J. BROAD and DAVID E. SANGER

[treeclimber]

n March, just as the Bush administration was showing reporters some of the secret nuclear equipment that Libya gave up after renouncing its arms program, the Libyans received a fresh shipment of illegal parts from the nuclear black market, according to a new report by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

The Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, was not cheating, however. The Libyans may have been as surprised

[treeclimber]

Without the Bush doctrine at work, the entire shipment would have gone through.

[kcvl]

bttt

[Southack]

"The disclosure of the late-arriving arms shipment was a small part of a larger report on Libyan disarmament. It also showed that Libya had an agreement to obtain a total of 20 tons - or roughly 10 small bombs' worth - of uranium hexafluoride, a standard raw material for making nuclear arms. Last Sunday, it was reported that North Korea might have been responsible for supplying Libya with nearly two tons of the material, which Libya then turned over to the Untied States this year. The atomic agency now disclosed that the two tons was simply the first installment, but it did not name the source."

[Southack]

The article goes on to suggest that North Korea was the other supplier of the Uranium.

[NutCrackerBoy]

How stupid do those nuclear black marketeers have to be to go through with the shipment?? I guess a deal's a deal. Honor amongst apocalyptic murderers and all that.