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To: Alighieri who wrote (159207)	1/29/2003 6:47:03 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1583374

In an interview with The Associated Press, Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency also stood by his inspectors' findings that aluminum tubes the Iraqis had tried to import were for rockets and not for a nuclear program, as the president reasserted Tuesday in his State of the Union address. They could be used for either. In any case the rocket use could also be a violation. Also ""We believe the tubes were destined for the conventional rocket program," ElBaradei said. He said the tubes could be modified for uranium enrichment, but the process would be expensive, time-consuming and detectable. " So they only believe that they where destined for the rocket program, which itself might be a violations, and that the tubes could be converted. As for detectable I'm not so sure. Since we know of the tubes we could check up on them again to see if they have been modified but I doubt we were supposed to know about them and there might be others that we don't know about. In his annual speech, Bush said: "Iraqi intelligence officers are posing as the scientists inspectors are supposed to interview. "We know all the scientists from the past and I think our people could easily detect if that person is a scientist or not." Assuming that second part is 100% true it would only mean the ruse was ineffective, not that it wasn't tried. Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri dismissed Bush's allegations as "lies" and said his government will fully cooperate with inspectors to show "that these baseless allegations are nothing but fabrications." Oh yes, the Iraqi ambasador. There is someone we can really trust to always tell us the truth about Saddam's weapons programs and human rights abuses. Tim