Posted on 10/03/2009 11:11:43 AM PDT by Cindy
OTTAWA (AFP) -- Iran is attempting to acquire clandestine shipments via Canada for its nuclear program, a senior customs official said Thursday. Canadian customs officers have seized everything from centrifuge parts to programmable logic controllers being shipped to Iran through third countries, George Webb, head of the Canada Border Services Agency's Counter Proliferation Section, told the National Post.
The increasing number of cases involves entrepreneurs and state-sponsored cells, Webb told the daily, in comments that were confirmed to AFP by a spokeswoman for CBSA.
(Excerpt) Read more at jihadwatch.org ...
A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
ping
Ping.
Hmmmm, Canada does have a big pile of yellowcake from Iraq.
eter Downward, the attorney representing the University says, “We regard Mr. Williams’ allegations about McMaster as being on a par with UFO reports and JFK conspiracy theories. The notion that because there are people on faculty from Egypt that McMaster is then a haven for terrorism is not only logically offensive, it smacks of racism.”
McMaster may get away with dismissing findings of lawyers, investigators from the 9-11 Commission, and international journalists as racist, logically offensive, and looney.
However, the predominance of Muslims from terror sponsoring countries at McMaster and the lack of security at the reactor has been verified by independent sources, including Sean Michaels of GlobalTV-CA.
http://thelastcrusade.org/2009/10/02/american-journalist-stripped-of-constitutional-rights/
What are you talking about? Do you have a reference for that?
We (Canada) produce 1/5 of the world's supply of uranium — we hardly need to be importing it from anywhere.
Thanks for the ping, AAC.
I don’t have a reference handy, but I believe we’ve received two shipments of it from Iraq.
You’re right — you don’t need to import it.
He may have been speaking about this article:
stepping back in time...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/07/iraq.uranium/
updated 6:10 p.m. EDT, Mon July 7, 2008
“500 tons of uranium shipped from Iraq, Pentagon says”
From Brianna Keilar and Larry Shaughnessy
CNN
SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United States secretly shipped out of Iraq more than 500 tons of low-grade uranium dating back to the Saddam Hussein era, the Pentagon said Monday.
The U.S. military spent $70 million ensuring the safe transportation of 550 metric tons of the uranium from Iraq to Canada, said Pentagon spokesman Brian Whitman.”
You’re welcome fanfan.
So that it could be put to productive use, here, in North America, and not fall into enemy hands.
Parley Baer’s initial post could have been construed as a suggestion that Canada was somehow involved in nefarious dealings in yellowcake. That didn't make any sense to me & I didn't want it left just hanging there.
As it happens, the U.S. asked Canada to take some yellowcake & we agreed (even though we're an exporter of the stuff, not an importer). Canada has been trying to prevent the sale of uranium to Iran -- as the article points out. We aren't an intermediary in the WMD marketplace.
IMHO, Parley Baer should have provided more background to his post. It was too easy to misinterpret & too serious a matter to just let pass.
The university's lawsuit, claiming more than $2-million in damages, says the allegations are false and defamatory.
Those men never registered as students and there is no nuclear material missing from the reactor, the university says.
Even Mr. Williams' publisher now agrees. "WND Books/Cumberland House Publishing made statements, including a statement contained in The Dunces of Doomsday, referring to the theft of 180 pounds of nuclear material at McMaster University, the infiltration of McMaster University by terrorists and consequent risk to the public. Those statements were without basis in fact," says a statement from the publisher. "WND Books/Cumberland House Publishing unreservedly retracts the statements."
The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, the government agency that regulates nuclear energy and materials, supports McMaster in this controversy as best it can. "We can confirm that there has never been a report of any nuclear material that has been lost or stolen from McMaster's reactor," Barclay Howden, director-general of the CNSC, says in a letter regarding "false media allegations."
But Mr. Williams is quick to note the letter says no material has been reported missing--not that no material is actually missing.
You are very welcome USFRIENDINVICTORIA.
Sorry guys. What I was refering to is the 500 tons of yellowcake that the US got out of Iraq and Canada agreed to store in order to keep it out of harms way.
When I saw that Iran was trying to get materials to build a nuclear bomb that just popped into my mind.
Sorry guys. What I was refering to is the 500 tons of yellowcake that the US got out of Iraq and Canada agreed to store in order to keep it out of harms way.
Thank you for that.
Canada received the yellowcake at the request of the United States because it is a trusted destination for nuclear material.
This also includes receiving weapons grade uranium and plutonium and spent fuel from light water reactors.
The weapons grade material, yellowcake and spent fuel can be processed for use in CANDU reactors, thereby to some extent reversing the enrichment process and reducing the threat of unwanted enriched nuclear material falling into the wrong hands.
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