From Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty:
...AS OTHERS LAUNCH PREEMPTIVE INFORMATION STRIKE AGAINST U.S. The United States might "fabricate the discovery" of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq or create "evidence" that Baghdad has been operating prohibited weapons programs, an unidentified Russian military expert was quoted by RIA-Novosti as saying on 24 March. Academician Yevgenii Velikhov, director of the Kurchatov Nuclear Center, told strana.ru on 24 March that "if the United States finds no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, it is possible they will drum up proof of their existence." Velikhov noted that it is very difficult to determine the origin of some nuclear-weapons components such as uranium-235, particularly because they are prepared "under the supervision of the security services." VY
http://www.rferl.org/newsline/fulltext.asp
Funny, we just mentioned that.
Not just this, as it's a point obvious to a lot of people (*), but we can quite easily use Pu-239 and other radioisotopes that are unambiguously traceable to a French nuclear reactor, thus killing two birds with one stone.
(* Anyone who knows about "flaps and seals" (cr. Kahn's "The Codebreakers" and Bamford's "The Puzzle Palace") knows that all major intelligence agencies have entire departments devoted to forging documents, faking evidence, creating false legends, and spreading disinformation. The American CIA, DIA, FBI, ONI, and other groups are quite capable of producing fake cargo manifest, fake credentials, fakes of all other kinds, and of planting faked evidence. For those who don't read, the television show "The Agency" has the generation of faked evidence as a plot element almost every week, and the CIA has endorsed the show as being helpful to the Coalition of the Willing cause.)
--Tim May
"Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat." --David Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11
