[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, January 1, 2004

Quote of the Day by HaloStatue

[Travis McGee]

A very cool job for a lucky frogman platoon no doubt. I'd love to see the classified AAR.

[little jeremiah]

I scanned article without reading every word (maybe the answer will be found therein) but what on earth is the meaning of "findled"? Is it a UK-ism?

[Pro-Bush]

..More on your earlier find.

[VOA]

The United States intercepted an illegal shipment of thousands of parts of
uranium-enrichment equipment bound for Libya in October, leading to Tripoli
agreeing to cap its weapons program, U.S. officials confirmed yesterday.

This can't be true. The nice people on the TV news have assured us that
it was "10 years of diplomacy" (hmmm, who was President for most
of those 10 years?) that caused Khadaffi to come clean!
(end sarcasm)

[little jeremiah]

Now I've read every word. Still not sure about "findled"...

I want to know why anyone should trust this guy or his precious little UN agency:

IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Tuesday he did not want American or British help on the ground in Libya. "As far as I'm concerned, we have the mandate, and we intend to do it alone," he said.

[Cap Huff]

"Nor would they say which country or countries may have supplied the centrifuge parts, citing ongoing investigations."

More shoes to drop in the future!

[Western Phil]

" Nor would they say which country or countries may have supplied the centrifuge parts, citing ongoing investigations."

The answer is France and/or Germany.

[barker]

My husband works for a place that rebuilds and repairs centrifuges. Said the paper work was incredible and the Feds are in a lot checking it over. Owner refuses to work on one or release it if there is any question at all. So far they have all been cleared.

[longjack]

I posted this earlier today on another thread:

Please excuse the double posting, but the article seems to be appropriate here, and "Spiegel" has edited it in the mean time as they often do with breaking stories.

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Aktuell

ATOM-TRANSPORT

German Freighter To Have Been Bringing Uranium-Equipment to Libya

Libya's announcement to stop development of nuclear weapons was preceded by a large-scale secret operation: American services had stopped, with German and Italian help,  a German freighter which shall have been taking thousands of components for uranium enrichment to Tripoli. The ship had already traversed the Suez Canal.

REUTERS

Libya's Head of State al-Gaddafi: Has sworn off atomic development

Washington: A spokesman for the U.S. State Department confirmed a corresponding report with these details in the "Wall Street Journal" on Wednesday. The paper reported, referring to government sources, the material had been on a German freighter underway from a gulf state port to Libya when it was seized in October.

"On the basis of secret service information, a ship was stopped which was transporting parts for centrifuges (for uranium enrichment) ", the spokesperson said. Neither he nor the government sources gave any details as to who had sold the equipment to Libya.

Thousands of centrifuge parts shall have been found on the ship. American and British Intelligence services had found out in September, says the "Wall Street Journal" that the freighter named "BBC China" had taken the provocative cargo on board in the Persian Gulf and was supposed to bring it to Libya.

"Spiegel"edited the above paragraph later, to include:

The shipping company BBC Charter and Logistics from Leer ordered the captain, who had just traversed the Suez Canal, to put in at an Italian port. The 121 meter long ship which was built in 2000, and sails under the Antigua flag, was shadowed and had the cargo searched by a U.S. warship there. The shipping company was very cooperative 

With that, they contacted German authorities, who, in turn, contacted the ship's owner. The shipping company ordered the captain, who had just sailed through the Suez Canal, to put in at an Italian port. The ship was shadowed by U.S.warship there, and the cargo was searched. The North-African country had surprisingly recently announced it would stop its program for the development of nuclear weapons and would allow far-reaching international controls. Enriched uranium can be used for the production of nuclear weapons.

The government spokesman didn't draw any direct connection between the seizure and the later proclamation by the country, describing the stopping of the delivery to Libya as a "significant and important development" on the way to the withdrawal of the country from its nuclear weapon development. Negotiations concerning the country's atomic program had already been taking place for months between Libya and the USA, as well as Great Britain, he said. The newspaper had reported, referring to government sources, that Libya only opened its atom facilities to the USA and Great Britain only after the discovery of the delivery.

 © SPIEGEL ONLINE 2004

"Spiegel-Online"....Deutscher Frachter sollte Uran-Ausrüstung nach Libyen bringen

Translated by longjack

[PGalt]

Thanks for the post JohnHuang2 and Happy New Year to you.

The fact that the ship was headed there is very telling. Terrorists, like most criminals, never stop until they are incarcerated or executed.

Gadhafi, Hussein and Arafat would make a great Execution Trifecta.

[Lazamataz]

Findled?

[TexasCajun]

What's this I read?

You mean to tell me that the United Nations Security Council isn't responsible for this victory in the War on Terrorism?

[TexasCajun]

...being delivered to Libya on a German-owned freighter

It isn't too difficult to understand Germany's reluctance to join the international coalition to remove Hussein & Co. from Iraq.

Why is Bush holding back on providing documented evidence that Germany, as well as France, were doing everything possible to help this murdering dictator? ...oh, and don't forget about U.N. Security Council member Syria, sending weapons to Iraq right up until we invaded.

[Sam's Army]

WMD expert Scott Ritter was quoted as saying: "There is no evidence of a Libyan WMD program, this is just further posturing by the Bush administration to take attention away from the feeble US economy."

[Aeronaut]

Happy New Year John. I missed 'findled' until I read #3. Now I can't stop chuckling...

[cars for sale]

well this is my third attempt to open freepers eyes here but LOOK AT THE TIME LINE (again this is in detail my 3td attemp to get a response).....we have had Kadaffi on the ropes for nine months, Saddam was on the lam for 6 months
and this shipment ( a tip BTW) has pieces parts for
enriched uranium @ Iran and bang bang parts (nukes)
for N. Korea and the good ole USA took it outta the equasion......sooooooooo before the 1st bomb on Saddam
we had Iran and N Korea in a box and who else knew ?

that would be Kadaffi....he watched uday and quese
get "room temperature and saw Saddam in a hole.

the media knew this and the politicians too but lied hourly that we were in a quagmire....
if that ain't treason, it is surely a second cousin.

[cebadams]

From Globalsecurity.org:

On June 15, 2003 eleven nations agreed on a version of the Proliferation Security Initiative, called the Madrid Initiative for the city where the agreement was reached. The Madrid Initiative was endorsed by Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Australia. The iniative proposed strategies for intercepting cargos suspected of containing chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, or missile components. The US has announced an increase in surveillance in the area in addition to increased interdiction by Japan, South Korea, and Australia.