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1999, 2000 Iraqi memos: Procurement of 50000 Aluminum Tubes That Can Be Used For URANIUM ENRICHMENT.
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| April 24 2006
| jveritas
Posted on 04/24/2006 9:45:15 AM PDT by jveritas
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To: Marine_Uncle
And furthermore: 2.C.1. Aluminium alloys having both of the following characteristics:
a. 'Capable of' an ultimate tensile strength of 460 MPa or more at 293 K (20 °C); and
b. In the form of tubes or cylindrical solid forms (including forgings) with an outside diameter of more than 75 mm.
Technical Note: In Item 2.C.1. the phrase 'capable of' encompasses aluminium alloys before or after heat treatment.
To: XJarhead
Thank you for the clarification.
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posted on
04/24/2006 12:58:16 PM PDT
by
jveritas
(Hate can never win elections.)
To: Spunky; demosthenes the elder; wcbtinman; Hillarys Gate Cult; MHGinTN; Lael; ...
Pinging some others from that thread....
To: blaster88
WOW!!! Great points by General Powell.
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posted on
04/24/2006 1:01:19 PM PDT
by
jveritas
(Hate can never win elections.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I am sure you have a very good reason for presenting the melting points of aluminum verse various types steel. I am not sure how it enters in. If you are thinking about the high temperature exhausts gas, then fine. A cermic or steel sleeve at the end of the tube would suffice to keep the tubes from melting at the exhaust end. But it does seem rather weird they would require tubes of such high standards for little short range rockets.
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posted on
04/24/2006 1:02:37 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
To: jveritas
It's tough stuff, really. I'm a former artilleryman, but couldn't translate one word of those documents. You are the only one here, of whom I'm aware, who can do those translations. So we are all in your debt.
I figure the role of us on the sidelines is to add a drop of subject matter expertise where appropriate, so I hope you take it in the sense it was meant. Just an effort to make sure the discussion doesn't go off on a tangent.
For what it is worth, I think there's a very good chance those weren't intended for rockets.
To: blaster88
Thanks for the detailed description. I intend to download the pdf document.
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posted on
04/24/2006 1:03:45 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
To: XJarhead
Thank you for all your comments XJ, I greatly appreciate it.
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posted on
04/24/2006 1:08:41 PM PDT
by
jveritas
(Hate can never win elections.)
To: ChadGore
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posted on
04/24/2006 1:09:09 PM PDT
by
jveritas
(Hate can never win elections.)
To: jveritas
this thread has been linked from NRO's the Corner by Jonah Goldberg at 1:28pm today:
ALUMINUM TUBES [Jonah Goldberg]
Have popped up in the Iraqi doc dump. I don't have time to decipher all this right this second, but if this is your cup of tea, check out Freerepublic.
Posted at 01:28 PM
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posted on
04/24/2006 1:10:02 PM PDT
by
RobFromGa
(In decline, the Old Media gets more shrill, thrashing about like a dinosaur caught in the tar pits.)
To: Marine_Uncle
---But in either case, the question remains. Under the UN sanctions, was Iraq permitted to obtain these tubes for either of the proposed reasons. That is the issue, at least from my viewpoint.--- UN Resolutions 686 and 687 forbid dual-use equipment. Saddam was in breach of those resolutions with those tubes. But this breach was known back then when the issue first surfaced.
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04/24/2006 1:12:57 PM PDT
by
avacado
To: Marine_Uncle; jveritas; Calpernia
But it does seem rather weird they would require tubes of such high standards for little short range rockets.Trying to arrive at what this procurement is for via deductive logic and elimination is always tough, but I haven't seen anything to eliminate their possible use in centrifuges, and the number 50,000 is consistent with that,
The quality level seems high for use in munitions....etc....
To: Marine_Uncle
I greatly appreciate your comments and support. However if you link at what some freepers posted on this thread about Powell statements on these Aluminum tubes, it makes me think more and more that they were not intended for conventional 81 mm rockets.
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04/24/2006 1:14:05 PM PDT
by
jveritas
(Hate can never win elections.)
To: jveritas
Wow, all the knowledge of FReepers really comes in handy doesn't it?
I love the dissection of these documents. It lets all the aspects be covered, and like I said earlier - when you take all of what the documents tell us together, it really is damning for the Ba'athist Hussein regime. And affirms what Bush said all along.
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posted on
04/24/2006 1:14:31 PM PDT
by
eyespysomething
(American liberals like everything about the struggle for freedom except the struggle.)
To: RobFromGa
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posted on
04/24/2006 1:15:45 PM PDT
by
jveritas
(Hate can never win elections.)
To: Grampa Dave
How would Zinni spin and lie about this? IMO Zinni is spinnning as fast as he can so that he will have his word to the media first. He thinks that the media will take take little interest in these translated documents if they have an important source getting an alternative statement out there first.
To: Zeppo
wouldn't the meaningful dimension of the tube/barrel from which that round was launched be the inner diameter, and not the outer diameter? Just guessing, but it appears that under that alternative scenario, the tubes would have comprised the projectile not the launcher -- hence the lightweight aluminum composition. I'm still not convinced that these tubes would have been effective as rockets though.
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04/24/2006 1:19:46 PM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
To: blaster88
Your post #101. I need time to read the downloaded document. Thanks. I am sure this is going to be very interesting reading.
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posted on
04/24/2006 1:20:25 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Honor must be earned)
To: jveritas; Marine_Uncle; Calpernia; eyespysomething; avacado; XJarhead; blaster88
Regarding the Powell comments, what we may have here is information that SOS Powell DID NOT HAVE....a procurement memo for
50,000 High quality aluminum tubes, anodized.... I think that is significant even if nothing in the document says exactly what they were to be used for....
To: avacado
" But this breach was known back then when the issue first surfaced."
But his attempt to procure them prior to the invasion was known, so any way we split it, the bastard was caught with his pants down.
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posted on
04/24/2006 1:28:00 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
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