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Nuke component unearthed in Baghdad back yard
CNN ^ | 25 June 2003 | From David Ensor

Posted on 06/25/2003 2:20:52 PM PDT by July 4th

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:44 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON (CNN) --The CIA has in its hands the critical parts of a key piece of Iraqi nuclear technology -- parts needed to develop a bomb program -- that were dug up in a back yard in Baghdad, CNN has learned.


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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baghdadbob; banneditems; centrifuge; denial; husseinkamel; iraq; iraqaftermath; kamel; mahdiobeidi; mediabias; nucleartechnology; nuclearweapons; obeidi; qusay; qusayhussein; rosebush; scientist; wmd; wmdhunt
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To: July 4th
CNN report, hmm? Centrifuge, huh?


61 posted on 06/25/2003 2:43:32 PM PDT by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: rwfromkansas
CNN's Mike Boettcher, if I understood correctly, is at an undisclosed location with the Iraqi scientist. Wonder how he got that assignment?
62 posted on 06/25/2003 2:44:41 PM PDT by mewzilla
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To: Reagan Man
Not a smoking gun? Will someone now claim that the Iraqi's were using the centrifuge to pop popcorn?

Just now the news hit Hannity....

63 posted on 06/25/2003 2:44:51 PM PDT by BCrago66
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To: July 4th
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64 posted on 06/25/2003 2:45:54 PM PDT by HatSteel
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To: GalaxieFiveHundred
Did the story get pulled?

I can't find it on CNN.
65 posted on 06/25/2003 2:45:58 PM PDT by keyd
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To: Maceman
DUmmies are saying that: 1) it was planted...
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Why would anyone want to plant a centrifuge? It's easier to graft them onto existing rootstock!
66 posted on 06/25/2003 2:46:23 PM PDT by night reader
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To: July 4th
The gas centrifuge is used for seperating light hydrogen from the air. The hydrogen is then used to fill weather balloons for artillery target practice...
67 posted on 06/25/2003 2:46:34 PM PDT by gridlock (My Dream: Dean and Sharpton duking it out for the nomination on the floor of the 'Rat Convention)
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To: keyd
It's the giant red banner at the top of the screen in 24 pt BOLD HELVETICA font.
68 posted on 06/25/2003 2:47:29 PM PDT by finnman69 (!)
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To: July 4th
New talking points:

-a centrifuge can't kill anybody, this is ridiculous, it was probably used to make fertilizer

-but is this the particular type of "WMD" Bush used to get us to war? If Bush said war was necessary to stop a bio-weapons program but all Saddam had was a nuke program, then it's still a fraud

-yes but the scientist lives in the Kurdish-controlled region of Iraq

-there's no evidence Saddam even knew about this, maybe the scientist acted alone

-we planted it, scientist is CIA double agent and we recently shipped a centrifuge to him so he could bury it and "find" it in one of the most elaborate setups in history

-sure this is evidence of "WMD" programs but it's not the evidence we used. We used other evidence and didn't know about this centrifuge at all, we had no right to go to war based on something we didn't even know about

(I'm sure we'll be seeing these and more in the days to come...)

69 posted on 06/25/2003 2:48:34 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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To: RightWhale
How many centrifuges? You need about a square mile of centrifuges to reach militarily significant production levels.

Well, that means it's ok then. /sarcasm

70 posted on 06/25/2003 2:50:50 PM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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To: July 4th

"No centrifuges were found. They were mistaken for 10 flux capacitors."

71 posted on 06/25/2003 2:50:57 PM PDT by SGCOS
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To: July 4th

"It's my old frisbee, did I mentinon I used to be a Marine?"

72 posted on 06/25/2003 2:51:59 PM PDT by finnman69 (!)
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To: Sender
Re :liberaldrivel is already in meltdown.

Please don't plug any liberadrivel.com sites.

Thank you.

73 posted on 06/25/2003 2:53:23 PM PDT by ChadGore (Piss off a liberal: Hire Someone.)
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To: Frank_Discussion
Exactly. Terrorists are good at 2 things: Sneaking up on their target, and hiding themselves and their stuff.
74 posted on 06/25/2003 2:54:29 PM PDT by Rennes Templar
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To: Reagan Man

After a few days of rain, I get hundreds of these in my lawn.

75 posted on 06/25/2003 2:54:38 PM PDT by SGCOS
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To: Frank_Discussion; Howlin; Miss Marple
centrifuges

Didn't Blix say the Iraqis didnt have these??

Or was it El Bardai who said it.

76 posted on 06/25/2003 2:55:37 PM PDT by Dog
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To: BCrago66
uhh, by the sounds of it they weren't using it for anything
77 posted on 06/25/2003 2:55:53 PM PDT by ContentiousObjector (Eagles may soar, but pigs don't get sucked into jet engines)
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To: Dr. Frank
Brilliant.
78 posted on 06/25/2003 2:57:03 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Redcloak
Yeah, and Saddam was bluffing all these years when his government claimed it had all sorts of WMD. Evenutally bluffed himself right out of his own palaces, dontcha know!
79 posted on 06/25/2003 2:57:28 PM PDT by Wolfstar (If we don't re-elect GWB — a truly great President — we're NUTS!)
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To: Dog
Oh, the IAEA said that Iraq didn't have them, and I think the agency was even out at this guy's house. Guess they should've sent out a gardener.
80 posted on 06/25/2003 2:58:28 PM PDT by mewzilla
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