A review of this site from 1991 shows that the entire UN Assembly was lucky they were appointed and not elected, or else they would have been impeached for exaggerating, lying about sanctions working,, and failing to accomplish their assigned mission.
Here you have evidence of Saddam not only going nuclear, but H-bomb nuclear. Of failing to remember he had another 25 square mile nuclear facility nearly identical to Tuwaitha. Of reporting to the UN only a small portion of the munitions he had.
If you ask Saddam today about his WMD programs , he would tell you they all ended the day the UN left in 1998.
As he might explain it
" I remember the very day it happened. I was watching the courtyard as my soldiers raped and tortured a young lady after killing her children. And then suddenly I got Religion.
I said, this is not right, we should not have this woman live in pain for the rest of her life, so I told the soldiers be merciful and to kill her when they were finished what they were doing.
Then I decided to seek peace and ignore the ^&(&% Israelis and the ^&%$# UN , told my scientists to hide all their programs and equipment, and swore to devote the rest of my life to starving and torturing my own people in Iraq. I also stopped producing oil which tripled the world price."
A few interesting paragraphs from URL's are printed below, although even after reading them some may still wonder what we are doiing in Iraq. Does an unwatched Saddam a threat .? It is safe to say without Desert Storm, he would be counting or using his H-bombs long ago.
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10/08/91 * IAEA TEAM FINDS EVIDENCE OF H-BOMB WORK IN IRAQ (Inspectors uncover documents on lithium 6)
(370) By Judy Aita USIA United Nations Correspondent
United Nations -- The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said October 8 that its inspectors found "dramatic" new
evidence of an "advanced and sophisticated nuclear weapons program" in Iraq, including work to produce a powerful
thermo-nuclear bomb.
In a report to the Security Council, IAEA director Hans Blix said that the documents found by the IAEA's sixth inspection team
in Baghdad indicated that Iraq was in the process of producing several kilograms of lithium 6, whose only known use is in
hydrogen bombs.
"The key result of the sixth inspection is the uncovering of documents that show conclusively that Iraq was very well advanced
in a program to develop an implosion-type nuclear weapon and that links existed to a surface-to-surface missile project," Blix
said.
The program was "so advanced," Blix said, "that the time needed to reach bomb-making capacity seems to have been
determined by the time required for the enrichment activities rather than the weapons design activities."
"Contrary to Iraq's claims of having only a peaceful nuclear program the team found documents showing that Iraq had been
working on the revision of a nuclear weapons design and one linking the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission to work on a
surface-to-surface missile project -- presumably the intended delivery system for their nuclear weapons," the IAEA preliminary
report to the council said.
The inspection unit -- which was in Iraq in late September and remained trapped in a parking lot under Iraqi guards rather than
give up the documents it found -- also uncovered evidence of a "broad-based Iraqi international procurement effort," the IAEA
director said.
"It is quite possible -- even probable -- that some of the procurement that has taken place, e.g., of sensitive equipment or
material, has occurred in violation of laws of states from which the export originated," he said.
Blix said it is too early to indicate which contractors might have been breaking laws. But he noted that after careful analysis
IAEA would release the names of contractors that had violated laws. NNNN
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Clarke said that Iraq had insisted that it had not had a nuclear program, but that after the last U.N. inspection, "we know for sure
that they had a nuclear weapons program, (and) that it was advanced."
He said that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) analysts had found "clear, documentary evidence...of a very
sophisticated, widespread nuclear weapons program, employing 12,000 scientists and engineers."
GE 2 nea212 Moreover, he added, the IAEA experts believe Iraq may have spent 20,000 million dollars on its efforts to obtain a
nuclear capability. "They have over 3 dozen facilities spread out around the country. This is an enormous weapons program, and
Iraq continues to deny that they even have a nuclear program," he added.
Now, Clarke said, most experts are certain that the Iraqis "were within a year of building a nuclear weapon when the war
started."
Clarke said the United Nations inspections team has discovered the same pattern of non-compliance exists in the Iraqi chemical
weapons field. "Inspections have already revealed that they had chemical weapons of an advanced type that they did not declare
to the United Nations."
In recent months, several U.N. inspection teams have visited Iraq to check on Iraqi compliance with the cease-fire resolution. In
nearly every case, they have encountered lies and evasions by Iraqi officials. Iraq initially said it had 11,000 munitions filled with
chemical agents. After months of U.N. probing, the Iraqis admitted to having 46,000 chemical munitions, including more than
2,000 filled with deadly nerve gas.
U.N. inspectors have also encountered Iraqi deception in their search for materials that can be used to make nuclear and
biological weapons, and in their attempts to discover Iraqi Scuds and other prohibited missiles. But the members of the U.N.
Security Council have made it clear that the United Nations will not be satisfied until all such weapons are eliminated from Iraq.
ashington -- U.N. inspections at two Iraqi facilities reveal that Iraq was "clearly trying to develop a nuclear capability in
every way possible," says Colin Powell, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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The "gold mines" of evidence discovered by the inspectors show that Iraq had tapped an extensive network of contacts around
the world to obtain weapons technology and equipment, Powell said September 25. The Iraqis clearly were investigating "every
technical possibility to develop enriched uranium," he added in testimony before the House Appropriations Defense
Subcommittee
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TUnited Nations -- Iraq has a far larger store of chemical weapons than it claimed in its report to the United Nations Security
Council, a U.N. inspection team has found.
Although Baghdad originally claimed in its report to the council that it had only about 12,000 weapons and 650 tons of chemicals,
it has four times that amount, according to the U.N. special commission overseeing the destruction of Iraq's weapons.
In all, the commission says, Iraq has about 46,000 pieces of field chemical munitions and 3,000 tons of precursors and
intermediate materials, including missile warheads outfitted with nerve gas.
U.S. Ambassador Thomas Pickering said after the July 30 meeting that "all the members of the council were struck by the new
figures on chemical weapons which were given to them for the first time and the size of the stockpile."
Despite its obligations and assurances, Iraq has acted to subvert the letter and the spirit of the provisions of Resolution 687.
There is ample evidence from multiple sources that Iraq has been conducting a covert nuclear program that has included
activities related to the production of nuclear weapons-usable material. We know that Iraq was carrying out its nuclear program
at a series of sites. Prior to the IAEA/Special Commission inspections, Iraq began to dismantle its nuclear infrastructure. We
know that some of this equipment was moved to the Abu Gharaib site.
The Special Commission and IAEA have been fully briefed on this information and on our belief that the Abu Gharaib facility
was being used as a temporary storage site for equipment from Iraq's undeclared uranium enrichment program. As the briefing
members of the Security Council have received made clear, equipment associated with an undeclared Iragi uranium enrichment
program was at that site prior to June 22. Iraq is required under Security Council Resolution 687 to declare and make such
equipment available for inspection. Instead, this equipment has been removed. Even as Iraqi work crews were frantically
removing this equipment, Iraqi officials were barring the Security Council-mandated inspection team access to that site. At one
point, the team had to move aside to allow the heavy moving equipment to proceed to the site. Only now, after it has spent
several days removing equipment and material, has Iraq allowed the inspection team access to the site. This does not constitute
compliance with Resolution 687. This in obstructionism com
bined with an attempt to conceal equipment which Iraq is required to
make available for inspection and appropriate treatment.
United Nations weapons experts are scheduled to return to Iraq to investigate reports of additional nuclear weapons-grade
uranium sites, U.N. officials confirmed June 17.
About 10 officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the special disarmament commission established
after the gulf war plan to make a second visit to Baghdad at the end of the week. The group is expected to follow up on
assertions made by an Iraqi scientist who defected to U.S. troops in northern Iraq.
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The Iraqi reportedly told U.S. officials that Iraq has almost twice the amount of nuclear weapons-grade material that Baghdad
officially admitted possessing to the United Nations. The scientist asserted that Iraq has been trying to manufacture
weapons-grade uranium for use in nuclear weapons and has four secret installations that survived allied bombing during the war.
Under terms of Security Council cease-fire Resolution 687, Iraq must turn over all its nuclear weapons material to the IAEA and
its chemical, biological and ballistic weapons must be destroyed by the U.N. special commission.
IAEA scientists visited Iraq's Tuwaitha nuclear site in May, placing the 45 kilos of enriched uranium declared there by Iraq
under tamper-proof seals.
The material cannot be destroyed or rendered harmless in Iraq, the IAEA said, and the agency will have to take custody of it.
Other direct-use material is buried under the rubble of a reactor building and "a complex and costly decommissioning operation
will be needed to render this material accessible for removal and disposal," the IAEA said.
Today, we expect the IAEA to decide that Iraq is in violation of its obligations
under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and Iraq's Safeguards Agreement. This is the first such decision in IAEA's history,
and a potentially major step in the agency's development. The head of the Special Commission and the Director General of the
IAEA briefed the Security Council last Monday. They presented clear and incontrovertible evidence that Iraq was, indeed,
engaged in a clandestine nuclear weapons program. Indeed, Saddam said only yesterday in a speech commemorating the
anniversary of the Baathist revolution that Iraq would one day strike back at its enemies and that its capability to do so would be
reconstructed. The Special Commission had been able to react
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