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Bush on warpath over UN's shock report on Iran A-bomb (Dubya is Angry!)
The Daily Telegraph ^ | 09/07/2003 | Con Coughlin

Posted on 09/06/2003 6:09:24 PM PDT by Pubbie

America will tomorrow demand that the United Nations takes urgent action to prevent Iran acquiring the atom bomb as fears mount that Teheran is on course to develop a nuclear weapons capability within two years.

United States officials will make the demand at a special meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna that has been arranged to consider a 10-page report by Mohammed al-Baradei, the agency's director-general, into the state of Iran's nuclear programme.

Washington has already expressed deep concern about the discovery of traces of weapons grade uranium found in soil samples taken from one of Iran's top secret nuclear facilities last July.

In his report, a copy of which has been obtained by The Telegraph, Mr al-Baradei lists serious concerns raised by UN weapons inspectors about the scope of Iran's nuclear programme, which Teheran continues to insist is aimed at developing a nuclear power industry.

Inspectors are particularly concerned about activity at a nuclear complex at Natanz, in central Iran, which has sophisticated equipment for enriching uranium to weapons grade standard.

Even though the complex was built five years ago, the Iranian authorities only confirmed its existence to the IAEA earlier this year after its location was revealed by Iranian exiles.

The report also details the inspectors' concerns about the development of a heavy water facility at Arak, which they believe could help Iran to manufacture weapons grade uranium.

Mr al-Baradei writes in the report's conclusion that "there remain a number of important outstanding issues, particularly with regard to Iran's enrichment programme, that require urgent resolution".

US officials, however, are concerned that Mr al-Baradei, who this year argued in favour of UN inspectors being given more time to locate Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, will try to play down the significance of the recent discoveries made in Iran.

One American closely involved in monitoring Iran's nuclear programme said: "The big difference between Iraq and Iran is that the Iranians now have the ability to develop an atom bomb within two years. The time has come to force the Iranians to come clean about their real intentions."

Although Mr al-Baradei admits that the Iranians have deployed a variety of delaying tactics to prevent UN inspectors gaining access to secret nuclear facilities, he believes that they should be given more time to comply with their obligations under the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty.

American officials fear that many Europeans on the IAEA's 35-member board of governors, some of whose countries have lucrative trade ties with Teheran, will back Mr al-Baradei's position.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: iaea; iran; nuclearweapons; nukes
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To: yonif
"The UN will do nothing at all. His rightful course going into Iraq showed just that fact. Why waste time going to the UN again?"

We're at war. (...and I hate the UN too.)

This may be to keep from having to re-implement the military draft.(?)

101 posted on 09/06/2003 7:41:07 PM PDT by blam
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To: wimpycat
To put them on the record as doing nothing at all.

Your telling me that there isn't already a record that shows the UN doing nothing when terrorists are a threat?

102 posted on 09/06/2003 7:41:08 PM PDT by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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To: yonif
Why waste time going to the UN again?

Perhaps to keep active the idea to everyone of the fact that the UN IS truely a worthless money pit.

103 posted on 09/06/2003 7:41:11 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: EGPWS
Why do we keep funding the UN?
104 posted on 09/06/2003 7:42:11 PM PDT by yonif ("If I Forget Thee, O Jerusalem, Let My Right Hand Wither" - Psalms 137:5)
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To: Lord_Baltar
Earth to Lord Baltar.

Do ya recognize the difference between civilized folk and non civilized folk? Didn't think so.....

106 posted on 09/06/2003 7:44:46 PM PDT by eeriegeno
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To: yonif
No, I'm not. But I think they need to go on the record each and every time. See, those UN folks would rather talk about it than actually do it. That applies to just about everything involving the UN, but it includes voting. Like how France and Germany are behaving towards our latest UN proposal. They'd rather not go "on the record" against us yet again, if they can get their way just by talking about being against us. But a vote is an official act. If they want to be against us, let them have the courage of their convictions and vote against us.
108 posted on 09/06/2003 7:49:39 PM PDT by wimpycat (Down with Kooks and Kookery!)
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To: yonif
Why do we keep funding the UN?

It's a good question yonif, for I have pounded my head against the nearest wall too long, from the time Jean Kirkpatrick left the seat as our reperesentative.

I do (for the first time) however, see a President that is finally standing up to the UN and questioning their relevence. You may disagree with my opinion but since Dubya' has been in office he has professed their irrelievance without swinging a stick in anger.

109 posted on 09/06/2003 7:52:18 PM PDT by EGPWS
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To: Pubbie
TV Docudrama Blames Clinton for 9/11

An upcoming TV docudrama chronicling President Bush's actions in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks blames President Clinton's "weakness" for leaving America vulnerable to the disaster.

Titled "DC/9/11: A Time of Crisis" and set for broadcast Sunday night on Showtime, the film "rarely misses a chance to suggest that the Clinton administration's weakness was to blame for the disaster," reported the New York Times on Friday.

111 posted on 09/06/2003 7:53:57 PM PDT by concerned about politics (Lucifers lefties are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: Lord_Baltar
Why exactly is it OK for us to have, develop, manufactuer, and test Nukes, and it's not OK for other Nations to do so?

Listen Lord, I want you to stop asking all these embarrassing questions. All your trying to do is confuse the issue. bad,bad :>)

112 posted on 09/06/2003 7:55:52 PM PDT by biffalobull
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To: Pubbie
America will tomorrow demand that the United Nations takes urgent action...

Why? What possible purpose could this serve? What will the UN do? Issue a decree?

Generally Bush is a little better on these sorts of questions, so I'll wait and see what he says. But this is what cruise missiles and Special Forces are for. I just don't think like a diplomat.

114 posted on 09/06/2003 8:00:00 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Pubbie
Bomb the UN and the rest of the terrorists will fall in line? ;) (Just kidding, Jim)
115 posted on 09/06/2003 8:01:16 PM PDT by Libertina (I agree with the Republicans' view on gun rights...but wish they'd stop aiming them at their feet ;))
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To: nuconvert
ping
116 posted on 09/06/2003 8:01:36 PM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife ("Life isn't fair. It's fairer than death, is all.")
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To: Lord_Baltar
Why exactly is it OK for us to have, develop, manufactuer, and test Nukes, and it's not OK for other Nations to do so?

Because they are a radical Islamic regime that funds terrorism worldwide, has threatened the very existence of Israel, and thus cannot be trusted to handle the awesome responsibility of nuclear weapons responsibly.

Quite simply, one of those bombs could wind up in the hands of Al-Qaeda operative.

117 posted on 09/06/2003 8:02:16 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Pubbie
HOW THE H. CAN UN KNOW MORE THAN US INTELLIGENCE?!
I GUESS UN DOES NOT.
we the little people are always last to know... to bed now.
118 posted on 09/06/2003 8:03:03 PM PDT by 1234 (Border Control or IMPEACHMENT)
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To: Lord_Baltar
So, what you're saying is that we are essentially the world's policemen, and that the rest of the world has to answer to us, or face a pre-emptive strike against them if they don't bow to our demands?

You weren't asking me, but the answer is: not at all. They will face a preemptive strike if they don't stop financing and running terrorism and producing nuclear weapons for that capacity.

119 posted on 09/06/2003 8:03:44 PM PDT by Zack Nguyen
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To: Zack Nguyen
Quite simply, one of those bombs could wind up in the hands of Al-Qaeda operative.

Lord_Baltar has decided to take a powder, so I'll stand in for him.

"Why exactly is it OK for us to have, develop, manufactuer, and test Nukes, and it's not OK for al-Qaeda to do so?"

120 posted on 09/06/2003 8:03:56 PM PDT by Poohbah (Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.)
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