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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (237603)	7/24/2007 1:49:37 AM
From: Sdgla	Respond to of 281500

Dont want to confuse the BDS crowd with facts now.......

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (237603)	7/24/2007 7:11:05 AM
From: Win Smith	Respond to of 281500

1990, Nadini. Are you perhaps claiming that W had to have his war because of a program that was dismantled 15 years ago? If that was the reason, perhaps W and company should have said something to that effect before they made their mess. Did those "giant caravans" transport Saddam's nuclear program to Syria then?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (237603)	7/24/2007 9:11:46 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 281500

Nadine, to make a bomb from uranium enrichment requires a cetrifuge FARM, not a centrifuge prototype a guy can bury in his garden. Consider the one WE used: en.wikipedia.org The Hanford Site is a facility of the government of the United States established to provide plutonium necessary for the development of nuclear weapons. It was established in 1943 as the Hanford Engineer Works, part of the Manhattan Project, and codenamed "Site W." No longer used to produce plutonium, it is currently the nation's most contaminated nuclear site.[1] The site occupies 586 square miles (1,517 km²) in Benton County, south-central Washington, and is approximately eqivalent to half the total area of the state of Rhode Island (centered on 46°30'00?N, 119°30'00?W.) The Federal government bought the towns of White Bluffs and Hanford and all of the surrounding farmland and orchards, and evacuated the residents to make room for the site. Plutonium manufactured at the Hanford site was used to build the first nuclear bomb, which was tested at the Trinity site near Alamogordo, New Mexico, and used to build Fat Man, the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Currently, the Hanford Site is engaged in the world's largest environmental cleanup, with many challenges to be resolved in the face of overlapping technical, political, regulatory, and cultural interests. The cleanup effort is focused on three outcomes: restoring the Columbia River corridor for other uses, converting the central plateau to long-term waste treatment and storage, and preparing for the future. Although most of the original Hanford Site is in Benton County, approximately twenty percent was once across the Columbia River in Grant and Franklin counties. This land has since been returned to private use and is now covered with orchards and irrigated fields. In 2000, large portions of Hanford were turned over to the Hanford Reach National Monument.."

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (237603)	7/24/2007 10:25:07 AM
From: SARMAN	Respond to of 281500

Nazine you are embarrassing yourself again. Your story is from 1990 not 2003.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (237603)	7/24/2007 12:47:19 PM
From: Don Hurst	Respond to of 281500

Do you read what you post?? The UN Inspectors closed off the Iraqi Nuke program in the 90s and this guy still had one last prototype centrifuge buried in his backyard and for this we invaded Iraq????? Yup, and I have a Drone Fleet that Saddam was personally going to fly over DC and the White House which I can sell to you after you buy the Brooklyn Bridge that I also own. You are such a joke. >>" In The Bomb in My Garden: The Secrets of Saddam's Nuclear Mastermind (Wiley, $24.95), a former Iraqi nuclear scientist, Mahdi Obeidi, describes in jaw-dropping detail how Iraq acquired the means to produce highly enriched uranium, the key ingredient to building a nuclear weapon, by the eve of the first Gulf War. Had Saddam Hussein not made the fatal mistake of invading Kuwait in August 1990, he probably would have possessed a crude atomic bomb by 1992 or 1993, insulating his regime from the threat of foreign invasion. Relatively unknown in the West until recently, Obeidi was the Iraqi scientist responsible for developing a gas centrifuge, the most direct and efficient route to enriching uranium. After U.N. arms inspectors forced Iraq to close its nuclear weapons program following the 1991 Gulf War, he buried a prototype of his centrifuge in his backyard in Baghdad (hence his book's title). After the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, Obeidi turned over this last remnant of the Iraqi nuclear program to the United States and teamed up with American reporter Kurt Pitzer to write this book. "<<