Posted on 11/02/2006 8:01:04 PM PST by RDTF
Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who said they hoped to leverage the Internet to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.
But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraqs secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.
Last night, the government shut down the Web site after The New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-control officials. A spokesman for the director of national intelligence said access to the site had been suspended pending a review to ensure its content is appropriate for public viewing.
Officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency, fearing that the information could help states like Iran develop nuclear arms, had privately protested last week to the American ambassador to the agency, according to European diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the issues sensitivity. One diplomat said the agencys technical experts were shocked at the public disclosures.
The documents, roughly a dozen in number, contain charts, diagrams, equations and lengthy narratives about bomb building that nuclear experts who have viewed them say go beyond what is available on the Internet and in other public forums. For instance, the papers give detailed information on how to build nuclear firing circuits and triggering explosives, as well as the radioactive cores of atom bombs.
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Why does the press hate our Country so much? Why?
Now that's the kind of spin that would make BJ Clinton proud!
Worst. October. Surprise. Ever.
Saddam had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam had a nuclear weapons program.
3 posted on 11/02/2006 10:57:06 PM EST by (Kerry's Joke Insulted The Wrong People In The Wrong War At the Wrong Time)
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Can't be, Saddam has no WMDs
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Thanks to the NYT for finally admitting that Iraq had a well-developed nuke program.
Bears repeating, since the NYT and the MSM missed it:
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program.
So Iraq was loaded with the sophisticated details of how to make a nuclear bomb, but this stuff in Sadaam Hussein's hands was not dangerous. Yet somehow this information is so dangerous that letting it see the light of day jeopardizes our security, because every bad nation EXCEPT Sadaam should not have it. Sadaam was a pussycat just keeping this stuff so other bad guys wouldn't see it. Absurd sarcasm off.
Communists.
ping
The Slimes again. (YAWN)
I like you post, so I put it here,
didn't mean to cut out your name.
same source how?
yea right, and North Korea has the fuel and can't seem to make it work correctly anyhow... feed us some more BS will ya...
Shocker: New York Times Confirms Iraqi Nuclear Weapons Program
http://tks.nationalreview.com/
They like to save all the muckraking good stuff for just before important elections. SOBs.
Can the Times really be this stupid to allow us to point out the obvious? Are they that dense?
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