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To: PartyTime who wrote (3908)	2/25/2004 12:46:46 PM
From: James Calladine	Respond to of 173976

Israeli nuclear arsenal a mystery to UN Vienna February 26, 2004 The extent of Israel's atomic weapons program is a mystery to the United Nations nuclear watchdog, the agency's chief said in an interview broadcast yesterday. "Unfortunately I can't give a precise opinion about it because we don't do any inspections in Israel," Mohamed ElBaradei told Al Arabiya television when asked about the size of Israel's nuclear weapons program. "I know that it's a developed program, and Israel does not deny that it has nuclear capability, but the size of the program, the extent of its development, really I can't know." Non-proliferation analysts estimate Israel has from 100 to 200 atomic weapons, but the country has not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and does not confirm or deny having nuclear weapons. "It's enough for me to know that it has nuclear capability, there is a conviction that it has a nuclear weapon," ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said in the Arabic-language interview recorded in Libya on Tuesday. The UN watchdog has long encouraged Israel to sign the NPT and help create a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East. Israel has refused to consider nuclear disarmament, citing a precarious security situation. "Israel still thinks that in the absence of complete recognition by all countries in the region it can't talk about giving up the nuclear deterrent or limiting conventional and non-conventional weapons," ElBaradei said in the interview near the end of a two-day visit to the Libyan capital Tripoli. Apart from North Korea, which Washington believes may already have at least one nuclear warhead, most of the suspicions of covert nuclear weapons programs have focused on the Middle East and countries considered to be Israel's enemies. In December, Libya agreed to give up its nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and invited the IAEA and other international experts to help it disarm. Both the United States and Israel accuse Iran of having a secret atom bomb program, though Tehran denies this. On Tuesday the IAEA said in a report that it had found new evidence Iran has been hiding sensitive atomic technology and research that could be linked to a weapons program. - Reuters This story was found at: theage.com.au

To: PartyTime who wrote (3908)	2/25/2004 12:54:39 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

I agree, voters are going to make the sign of the cross whenever Nader is mentioned. Apparently here in Florida he needs 95,000 signatures to get on the ballot. I think it would be fitting if, when approached by a ballot taker, everyone signed using a fictatious name, like "Hugh E. Rection." It would serve him right if he had to bear the cost of getting all those signatures and then it turns out none of them is any good.