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Uh... we ordered this ten years ago and the guy from al-Fedex has been stuck in Jordanian traffic ever since. Really.

MAY 2000 : (IAEA FINDS IN JORDAN A MACHINE ORDERED BY IRAQ WHICH IS RELATED TO URANIUM ENRICHMENT ) The IAEA said that in May the agency found a filament-winding machine ordered by Iraq that had arrived in Jordan. The agency said the system was part of Baghdad's clandestine uranium enrichment program. The machine and its spare parts were destroyed, the agency said..” - Source : Middle East Newsline 10/18/00

24 posted on 08/11/2004 9:19:29 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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OK, so this is Iran. Iran uses these aluminum tubes in their program and the US has found out Libya bought some for theirs, too. But Iraq is different. It uses them for rockets, and only rockets. Very expensive single-use small rockets which by the way we haven't found, but they were never bought with the intent of using them for uranium enrichment. Really. Nevermind Iran and Libya and that whole Qadeer Khan thing.

2001 not sure which month : (US & ISRAEL ALERT RUSSIA TO A SUSPICIOUS SHIPMENT OF ALUMINUM TUBING ON A RUSSIAN-FLAGGED SHIP HEADED FOR IRAN)...The officials said the two countries exchanged a series of diplomatic messages after the United States and Israel alerted Russia to a suspicious aluminum shipment on a Russian boat that was headed for Iran via the Black Sea soon after President Bush took office Jan. 21. [2001] According to the American version, Russian inspectors boarded the vessel and reported that the aluminum was intended for aircraft manufacture, an explanation not accepted by the United States. The shipment was allowed to proceed to Iran. The precise origin of the aluminum is not known, but U.S. officials said the deal was arranged by a Russian metals trader. The officials said that the United States and Israel have evidence that the aluminum was delivered to Iranian institutions connected with what they suspect is Iran's nuclear weapons project. The aluminum shipment is the latest in a series of nuclear proliferation disputes that have clouded U.S.-Russian relations in recent years. U.S. officials said Bush is expected to raise proliferation concerns with Russian President Vladimir Putin during their first face-to-face meeting Saturday in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana without going into detail about specific cases. "It's a big deal," said one well-placed administration official, referring to fears that Iran is experimenting with different ways of enriching uranium to produce bomb-grade material that would serve as the basis for a crude nuclear weapon. U.S. officials said they suspected that the aluminum alloy delivered to Iran was intended for the manufacture of rotor blades used in gas centrifuges that separate out the enriched uranium that can produce a chain reaction for a nuclear explosion. U.S. experts say that Iran has been attempting to acquire centrifuge technology, as well as other technology for enriching uranium, for much of the last decade as part of a larger effort to build an atomic bomb. (/snip) -- "U.S., Russia At Odds on Iranian Deal ; Bush to Raise Atomic Issues at Summit ," By Michael Dobbs, Washington Post Staff Writer via 14 posted on 03/10/2003 1:54:47 AM PST by piasa

25 posted on 08/11/2004 9:24:40 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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