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To: i-node who wrote (157529)1/7/2003 3:16:03 PM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1580032
 
SECRETARY POWELL: It has been our best estimate that they may have one
or two nuclear weapons, based on earlier developments, and that's been
the considered view of the intelligence community for some time.


Even Powell is careful to not be definitive.

But what's happened now is we have discovered that they have started to move in another direction, to enrich uranium, a program that they've been working on for the last four or five years, back to the previous
administration.


Again, he is not definitive. The program was in place in 1994, when Clinton strove to reach a deal with them. The restart is referred to as in the present tense, meaning NOW.

Al