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To: Ditto
Yahoo is preventing people from looking at a set of photos from February 2003.

U.N. weapons inspectors, left, and members of the Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate, investigate storage facilities at Al-Tuwaitha, the main site

(Associated Press photographs)

Use the link above or use Google to Web search on "Al-Tuwaitha 2003" and you will see a slew of UN inspector pics with captions like this. When you use Google, you have to look at the "cached" copy because they are supressing the copy normally accessible through the links. I put a direct link to the cached page above.

31 posted on 04/09/2003 10:57:57 AM PDT by LurkedLongEnough (Five day forecast for Baghdad: 2 days)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
Use the link above or use Google to Web search on "Al-Tuwaitha 2003" and you will see a slew of UN inspector pics with captions like this. When you use Google, you have to look at the "cached" copy because they are supressing the copy normally accessible through the links. I put a direct link to the cached page above.

The plot thickens! It looks like the inspectors had some kind of handheld measurement device, presumably a geiger counter pointed at one of the storage facilities. Somebody already mentioned it, but I wonder if the Iraqis scuttled their underground reactor resulting in the very high readings our marines are finding at the site. This would fit the pattern of the sarin and other gas contamination in the Tigress river last week. They're trying to destroy the evidence. Lets hope they miss some.

149 posted on 04/09/2003 5:40:24 PM PDT by meyer (how do I turn this thing off?)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
nice find with the photos of post 31.

My guess is that someone is doing a serious job of covering
their tracks.

The UN photos show EXACTLY where the inspectors were at the
time. With those photos, we might now be able to PROVE the
Islamic inspectors were on Saddam's payroll. It could very well
be that the evidence was there and unmistakeable when the UN
visited in February.

By the way, Google searches no longer turn up ANY search hits
for the terms you mentioned, and the pages were erased
at yahoo.
194 posted on 04/09/2003 8:40:05 PM PDT by Future Useless Eater (Freedom_Loving_Engineer)
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To: LurkedLongEnough
Here is an article from FoxNews: "they looked and looked, and found nothing, absolutely nothing"

Dec. 9, 2002:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,72504,00.html

Inspectors Visit Chlorine Plant, Nuke Site

Inspection teams scoured the three nuclear sites near the town of al-Tuwaitha, 15 miles southeast of Baghdad, picking up from where U.N. nuclear agency inspectors left off in 1998, when they left Iraq amid disputes between Baghdad and the United Nations.

Many buildings at the three sites — including the giant al-Tuwaitha nuclear complex — were destroyed in heavy U.S. bombing in the 1991 Gulf War. Through the 1990s, al-Tuwaitha was scrutinized by U.N. nuclear agency inspectors under a postwar U.N. monitoring regime to ensure Iraq did not develop weapons of mass destruction.

Faiz al-Bayrakdar, adviser at the al-Tuwaitha complex, told reporters 16 inspectors visited his site Monday.

U.N. teams want to ensure that Iraqi specialists at al-Tuwaitha and other sites did not resume nuclear weapons research during the four years when no inspectors were in the country. Recent satellite photos show new construction at the plant.

A spokesman for the U.N. inspectors, Hiro Ueki, said inspections also took place Monday at two other nuclear sites — al-Shakyli and al-Qa'qaa — located near al-Tuwaitha.

The al-Shakyli complex had been a storage area where crucial equipment for a nuclear bomb program was discovered during the 1990s. Al-Qa'qaa was involved in working on the final design for a nuclear bomb.

"A detailed inspection was made of al-Shakyli. All buildings were inspected and sampled for the detection of radiological materials," Ueki said.

At al-Qa'qaa, Ueki said inspectors began inventorying known explosive materials from the past nuclear program, which had fallen under control of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

They also inspected several key buildings and outdoor sites within the huge complex. No further details were available.

On Sunday, a presidential science adviser said the three massive reports — totaling more than 12,000 pages — that Baghdad submitted to the United Nations outlined Iraqi efforts to build a nuclear bomb until the Gulf War in 1991.

The adviser, Lt. Gen. Amer al-Saadi, said Iraq no longer has such a program.

Last Wednesday, in their first visit to al-Tuwaitha, specialists of the IAEA — the U.N. nuclear watchdog — spent five hours going "room to room," team leader Jacques Baute reported afterward. But they needed more time to complete their inspection of the complex of more than 100 buildings, he said.



195 posted on 04/09/2003 8:48:12 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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