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Pardon me for being obtuse and voicing wonder at why this is news other than to add to the body of evidence that most rational people already accept. For conservatives world-wide, the Islamofascist intent has been clearly demonstrated for months, if not for years.

From my memory, I recall news stories showing that the pieces and parts have been demonstrated to be floating in this theater for years. China seems to be currently in the business of helping rogue states overcome technological hurdles in all sorts of spheres including nuclear. Europe has been selling seriously compromising technology to Saddam for a good while now, and Clinton, helped out to no small degree as well. Specific, controled, scientific technology for nuclear weapons development has been shown to have been ordered by Saddam. The Iraqi know-how and documentation has been clearly demonstrated. After the Gulf War, US experts upgraded their estimates of where Saddam was in the Nuke timetable to less than three years out - that was ten years ago. Episodes like the Pakistani terrorist that was caught by the Israelis last summer with a radiological bomb have already occured. Hundreds of kilograms of enriched, weapons grade plutonium have been missing from Soviet stocks and a smuggling dry-run was exposed last fall. A key Soviet defector maintains that perhaps as many as two dozen "back-pack" nuclear devices are floating about unaccounted for and some of them, according to this agent, are cached in North America for use by Spetznaz and other sleeper agents.

I guess I can see that more information may be needed to awaken some, but I fear that a preoccupation with finding the "smoking gun" will only yield a mushroom cloud in an American city.

I suspect what is going to occur next is that Blair or Bush will reveal that Al Qaeda got the radioactive material for this bomb from Saddam. This would explain why Bush and Blair have been so insistent on getting Saddam. And finally stating this in public will end all opposition - though this period has been indeed been instructive as to who stands for freedom and who does not.

Regards, Ivan

Speaking of Pakistan, we read back in late 2001 (or so) about the 2 Pakistani nuke scientists who were interviewed by the CIA. But what very little was written at the time about was the fact that our "friend" Musharraf spirited at least 2 others out of the country before the CIA could talk to them. The two I know of were moved to Myanmar (the topic of a whole OTHER story, equally scary). Were there others beyond the 4 that I can account for? And if so, WHERE did THEY go?