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--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cute answer, Tariq, but lacking in any substance. > > Wouldn't your case be a lot stronger if you could > advance a theory that fits ALL the actual and > circumstantial evidence that I have listed, about what > may have happened to Iraq's WMD? > > Since we know the WMDs were used previously, and they > admitted having them in 1991, but neither accounted > for thereafter nor found by the coalition as yet, what > do you think could have happened to them? I do not have to think about what happened to them. The IAEA does a good job and here is what they said "As of 16 December 1998, the following assessment could be made of Iraq's clandestine programme: There were no indications to suggest that Iraq was successful in its attempt to produce nuclear weapons. Iraq's explanation of its progress towards the finalisation of a workable design for its nuclear weapons was considered to be consistent with the resources and time scale indicated by the available programme documentation. Iraq was at, or close to, the threshold of success in such areas as the production of HEU through the EMIS process, the production and pilot cascading of single-cylinder sub-critical gas centrifuge machines, and the fabrication of the explosive package for a nuclear weapon There were no indications to suggest that Iraq had produced more than a few grams of weapons-grade nuclear material through its indigenous processes. There were no indications that Iraq otherwise clandestinely acquired weapons-usable material All the safeguarded research reactor fuel was verified and fully accounted for by the IAEA and removed from Iraq. There were no indications that there remains in Iraq any physical capability for the production of amounts of weapons-usable nuclear material of any practical significance." The link for this is provided here: http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/Programmes/ActionTeam/nwp2.html The same report also provides account of the Nuclear Material that you believe still missing. In addition, please refer to Santosh Helekar's mail for the US report. -Tariq __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com
