[piasa]

Since the Iraqi scientist Jafar appears every so often in the press, you might want to note this Libyan connection.

[Cindy]

Piasa said, "Since the Iraqi scientist Jafar appears every so often in the press, you might want to note this Libyan connection."

Well, thank you Piasa. Duly noted.

[Cindy]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/01/27/international2243EST0774.DTL


"1991 Gulf War stopped Baghdad's atomic and biological weapons, top Iraqi scientist says"
DOUG MELLGREN, Associated Press Writer


Thursday, January 27, 2005


(01-27) 19:43 PST OSLO, Norway (AP) --

ARTICLE SNIPPET: ""We were three years away, give or take a year," said Jafar, who fled Iraq during the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

In the book, Jafar describes being picked up in 1981 after 18 months in jail and brought to see Saddam, who, standing behind a desk in military uniform, instructed him to build an atomic bomb.

"From today, that is our goal," Jafar recalled Hussein saying."