Something tells me Iran isn't totally out of the woods
"Traces of bomb-grade uranium found two years ago in Iran came from contaminated Pakistani equipment and are not evidence of a clandestine nuclear weapons program, a group of U.S. government experts and other international scientists has determined.Of course, Iran originally insisted that all of its centrifuge parts had been produced domestically.
"'The biggest smoking gun that everyone was waving is now eliminated with these conclusions,' said a senior official who discussed the still-confidential findings on the condition of anonymity.
"Scientists from the United States, France, Japan, Britain and Russia met in secret during the past nine months to pore over data collected by inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, according to U.S. and foreign officials. Recently, the group, whose existence had not been previously reported, definitively matched samples of the highly enriched uranium -- a key ingredient for a nuclear weapon -- with centrifuge equipment turned over by the government of Pakistan.
"Iran has long contended that the uranium traces were the result of contaminated equipment bought years ago from Pakistan. But the Bush administration had pointed to the material as evidence that Iran was making bomb-grade ingredients . . . ."
posted at 12:40 AM
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I hold to my conviction that the whole Weapons of Mass Destruction fiasco was precipitated by a horrible typo....Iraq is only one letter different than Iran...and brilliant though GW is (head scratching) I can imagine a meeting in which it was said, Iran, Iraq, they are all over there and they all have bad guys. My tongue will now have to be removed surgically from my cheek.
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