Re British intel, perhaps it suffers the same fate of multiculturalism and micromanagement by human rights courts which Londonistan shows to be the buzzard picking apart the British society.
Posted on 02/07/2007 2:16:26 PM PST by Fedora
The Urenco Group operates uranium enrichment plants in Germany, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom and supplies nuclear power stations in about 15 countries in Europe and overseas. Worldwide Urenco has a 18% share (in 2004) of the market for enrichment services. Urenco annual report and accounts 2004. Urenco uses Zippe-type centrifuge enrichment technology, the first commercial enrichment provider in the Western world to use this method.
SNIP
Urenco Almelo is where the Pakistani physicist Abdul Qadeer Khan allegedly stole the enrichement technology used by many of the so-called Axis of Evil countries, such as North-Korea and others.
The Incredible Story of Mahdi Obeidi, Part Two [I don't agree with the analysis on this link but an interesting tidbit on Iraq's centrifuge program and Urenco:]
Others have speculated that the images were removed from the CIA site because they revealed too obviously the close connection between the Iraqi centrifuge and the UK manufacturer, Urenco, the design was passed on from. Now, there is an explanation--the Iraqis got the centrifuge design from a German who stole the blueprints from the German subsidiary of Urenco and sold them to the Iraqis.
Pakistan smuggled a uranium hexafluoride feedstock plant from West Germany and through the 1980s procured maraging steel for centrifuges, reprocessing plant and electronic equipment, and a metal finishing plant, all from abroad. By the fall of 1980, the CIA's spies, the NSA eavesdroppers, and the National Reconnaissance Office's imagery satellites convinced American authorities that preparations for a Pakistan test were underway—although the community thought it would be of a plutonium device. But the Pakistanis didn't proceed, probably in order to maintain the Congressionally required certificate of non-proliferation that foreign aid required. Throughout the Eighties, Pakistan government denied everything and the U.S. desisted from applying economic pressure in order to maintain Pakistan help in the Afghanistan insurrection. Then, in 1987, Pakistan purchased a production facility for yield-enhancing tritium from West Germany.
Shift;
Margret Thatcher was able to clean up MI5 some....
Why Philby was given a pass is anyones guess....Surface in Moscow later and retire ...Maybe Phil D will opine some of Britians corrupted Intel system.
I get bad vibes concerning England.....They handled Diana poorly.
Just how do you move entire process facilities from Countries with no one freaking out?
Imagine Mossad has picks of English,German and French businessmen with Pak and other brooding Muslims,
Maybe this is how Libya was finally undone...
You get sloppy after being able to aquire easily.
I've read a few articles recently indicating that Ivan has been double crossed by Iran
Ivan is dragging his feet on Finish for Irans nuke facilities.
I do not trust Ivan by the way....yet it chimes with reason he is reconsidering the deal with Iran
Iran may not be able to go into production now or the near future,....possibly just a few low yield nukes.
Consdering that Boosted** nuke data is now available to Muslim pyscho's.....we could have a bomb appear out of nowhere...like some rat hole in Malaya.
The past is catching up with us,....as mentioned in my above post.
Somebody's going to catch it soon.
Several countries.....many infact,...wil be culpable when that happens.
Nostradamus mentions what appears to be Nuclear Missiles dropping into the Med and Hitting Southern France.
I can see Muzzie ballistic overshooting Israel and polluting the Med.
Europes got some bad Karma to live out either way.
You noted Olmert is unpopular, that were there elections, Netanyahu would be the prime minister.
Condi is doing her part, talking up negotiations; Dick Cheney as The Bad Cop.
Our president trolling for the sarcastic, "He can't even pronounce nuclear--what have we to fear from him."
While Jack Murtha has to redden with embarrassment as the cherry bomb he threw under teacher's chair in study hall appears to have pffffted out.
Our administration is certainly giving the appearance that an attack is not forthcoming, while putting a series of Mighty Ducks in a row.
And yet. . .if Mexican trucks can now roll deep without inspection, then just how long before this reckless policy of open borders blows up.
Is NSA watching for delivery platforms turning eighteen thousand miles per hour or eighteen wheels.
Re British intel, perhaps it suffers the same fate of multiculturalism and micromanagement by human rights courts which Londonistan shows to be the buzzard picking apart the British society.
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