Brumar, I appreciate your taking the time to post the links. However...
I have my doubts about the Judith Miller pieces for the NY Times...for example here are the opening four paragraphs complete:
An Iraqi scientist who defected to the United States has publicly described for the first time the inner workings of Iraq's three-decade effort to build a nuclear bomb.
The scientist, Khidhir Abdul Abas Hamza, said that before he fled Iraq in 1994 he helped train a cadre of young scientists who, working with more senior scientists involved in other projects, would be capable of quickly resuming Iraq's atomic weapons program if the United Nations cuts back on its inspections and, ultimately, lifts economic sanctions.
Hamza is the highest-ranking scientist ever to defect from Baghdad, and his comments, in nearly 10 hours of interviews, come as a new confrontation is building over whether Baghdad has dismantled its chemical, nuclear and biological programs. Iraq has in recent days refused to cooperate further with U.N. weapons inspectors.
In the interviews, Hamza, 59, whose defection was an important intelligence coup for the United States that nearly slipped through American fingers because of the CIA's inattention, drew a chilling picture of life as an Iraqi scientist. He said his colleagues were lavishly rewarded for their successes and tortured by the secret police when they failed to deliver.
Notice anything missing? Such as when, who and where these public interviews occurred?
And the last line of the fourth paragraph? Come ON!
I was and am intrigued though, by the copyright owner of that story, www.iraq.net. (The domain remains the same even without the www). I'll spend some more time there when I get a chance...interesting site. |
