[prairiebreeze]

showing aluminum tubes--saying US thinks they are for nuke centrifugation

Iraq says for conventional weapons

bottom line---they are BANNED materials and Iraq shouldn't have them in first place. They are manufactured to a tolerance way above US levels for similar conventional weapons

progression of higher and higher levels of refinement of the tubes

They want a magnet production plant---trying to get supplies from Indian, Russia and others (I wish he'd link France the Germans)

[Carolinamom]

We periodically intercepted shipments of tubes to Iraq and saw their measurements increasing.....