[Dog]

Let me ask you this .....if this find is not a big deal.....then why didn't this scientist and Iraq turn this over to the UN weapons inspectors and Hans Blix??

Why because they planned to use them in a future weapons program.

[mewzilla]

CNN just had a live interview with Boettcher again. He said two things of note: That Obeidi says he knows of at least three more gas centrifuges that were purchased at the same time as the one in his backyard (though he doesn't know where they are, and he did give the US the names of some people to ask). And that there is NO dual use for these things. They were to be used in the weapons program.

[ContentiousObjector]

Because the scientist probably stole it?

If the regime were planning on using it, they would have stored it in a bunker or some other secure place, not a hole in the ground.

The scientist probably burried it thinking the first war wouldn't last long and he could dig it up in a few weeks, when Iraq lost and was disarmed, there was no reason to bother.

You don't burry sensitive and sophisticated electronics in a dirt hole in the ground as a means of long term storage, the probability of this stuff being servicable is less than zero.

would you bury your washing machine or television in the back yard?