Posted on 09/28/2002 2:12:10 PM PDT by Diogenesis
DEBKAfile and DEBKA-Net-Weekly Report Exclusively: US-Russian Teams Hunting Iraq-bound Uranium Five Weeks
28 September: The mysterious tip-off that led Turkish paramilitary police to the taxi cab, transporting 33 lbs of enriched uranium in a lead container hidden under a seat, came from the joint US-Russian undercover team that has for five weeks been tracking Iraqi operatives who were sent by the Iraqi ruler to hunt for the essential ingredient in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. The news released Saturday, September 28, does not say when the seizure took place.
This joint team, working out of Moscow, was first uncovered by DEBKA-Net-Weekly Issue 74 on August 23:
Operatives of the American and the Russian SVR secret services are jointly engaged in an epic hunt for a band of undercover Iraqi operatives racing up and down Russia, Belarus, the Ukraine and Kazakhstan this past week. According to DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s exclusive sources, the Iraqis have been sent by Saddam Hussein on an illicit hunt for nuclear material, particularly weapons-grade enriched Uranium-235. They are also trying to buy black market missile parts.
American and Russian task forces have set up a joint command center in Moscow to coordinate the high-stakes chase.
The alarm was first sounded in Washington and Moscow in early August by reports of Iraq agents splashing out with multi-million dollar offers for nuclear material. They did not take the information too seriously at first. But then came further reports that 15 Iraqi agents had split up into three groups, two covering Kazakhstan and the Ukraine and the third, Belarus.
The American and Russian presidents put their heads together and decided their intelligence operational divisions would mount a hot pursuit of the Iraqi agents, hoping to get to them before they reached their objective.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s sources say the chase is still on.
The haul in the southern Turkish province of Sanliurfia, which borders on Syria, may have given President George W. Bush the conclusive evidence he needs to prove that Saddam Hussein is racing to build up a nuclear warfare capability and may use it in the approaching war. It may be the clincher in Washington’s bid for support at home and abroad in its decision to use military force against Iraq.
On Saturday, American and British representatives, having been rejected by France, arrived in Moscow to win the Russians round to Washington’s case against Saddam Hussein.
There is little doubt that the Turkish smugglers who had been promised $5 million for the uranium were on their way to the Syrian or Iraqi borders to hand it over to their Iraqi clients.
Despite the US-Russian success in tracking down one shipment of enriched uranium sufficient for the fabrication of several small bombs, there is no knowing for certain if previous consignments have not got through to destination and were already being processed.
Why glass? Metal would react. Uranium is a metal too. Each of those tubes weighs about a half-kilo to a kilo.
ANANOVA.com: "POLICE ARREST 2 IN URANIUM SEIZURE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Paramilitary police in Turkey have seized 15.7 kilogrammes of uranium in Turkey. They arrested two Turks who they said planned to sell the weapons-grade substance, the Anatolia news agency reported today.") (092802)
BBC NEWS: "UN DRAFT SETS TOUGH DEMANDS" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Iraq's Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan has rejected the proposals: "The stance from the inspectors has been decided and any additional procedure that aims at harming Iraq won't be accepted."") (092802)
BBC NEWS: "BLAIR OUTLINES IRAQ EVIDENCE" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The dossier claims Iraq has: * Continued to produce chemical and biological agents. * Drawn up military plans for the use of chemical and biological weapons. * Tried to acquire from Africa material and technology for the production of nuclear weapons. * Illegally retained up to 20 al-Hussein missiles with a range of 650km, capable of carrying chemical or biological warheads. * Begun developing ballistic missiles with a range of more than 1,000km. * Learnt how to conceal equipment and documentation from weapons inspectors") (092402)
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH - INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2002: "STEALING THE FIRE" (NY Premiere) - "Stealing The Fire" is directed by John S. Friedman and Eric Nadler. This documentary video was produced in USA/Germany. (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Filmed over five years on four continents, Stealing the Fire focuses on Karl-Heinz Schaab, a German technician convicted of treason in 1999 for selling top secret nuclear weapons plans to Iraq. The film unflinchingly exposes a web of government and corporate intrigue and lays bare an unbroken chain of events and people that connects today's nuclear weapons underground with the atomic bomb program of Nazi Germany. Stealing the Fire investigates the 60-year history of a German multi-national corporation that directly profited from the Holocaust and in recent decades became a leading supplier of nuclear weapons technology to developing nations, including Iraq and Pakistan.")
ALBAWABA.com: "SADDAM SAYS AMERICAN TARGETS ALL ARABS; HAILS PALESTINIAN BOMBERS" [ARTICLE SNIPPET: "...Saddam also praised suicide attacks against Israel saying they will be "recorded in our history with shining letters."
"Whenever a (suicide) attack occurs against the enemy, I feel as if I carried it out myself and every Arab should look at these acts this way," Saddam said (Albawaba.com)"](071602)
FOX NEWS.com (AP): "MALAYSIA ARRESTS TOP TERROR SUSPECT" (ARTICLE NOTE: The suspect is identified as Wan Min Wan Mat, a fomer university lecturer. ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Officials in Singapore and Malaysia say the militant group has cells in several Southeast Asian countries that received help from Al Qaeda in a plot to blow up the U.S. Embassy and other targets in Singapore. Wan Min was arrested a week after Singapore announced the arrest of 19 Jemaah Islamiyah suspects last month in the second roundup in the city-state since the bomb plot was exposed in January.") (092702)
FOX NEWS.com (AP): "'SHOE BOMB' EXPLOSIVES FOUND ON MOROCCAN AIRLINER" (ARTICLE SNIPPET "There was no detonator attached to the 3 ounces of explosives discovered in the passenger section of a Royal Air Maroc airplane on Wednesday night after it landed at the Metz-Nancy-Lorraine airport, according to police. Judicial sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified the explosive material as pentrite...) (092602)
MEMRI.org - MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE Special Report No.802: "FRIDAY SERMONS IN SAUDI MOSQUES: REVIEW AND ANALYSIS" (CONTENTS INCLUDE: "* Part I - 'The Christians and the Jews are "Infidels," "Enemies of Allah"'. * Part II - 'Jews - The Descendants of Pigs and Apes', * Part III - 'It is Impossible to Make Peace With the Jews', * Part IV - 'Muslims Must Educate Their Children to Jihad… and to Hatred of Jews and Christians', * Part V - 'The Palestinian Struggle Must be An Islamic Jihad', * Part VI - 'Muslim Women's Rights are a Western Ploy to Destroy Islam', * APPENDIX - About Al-Minbar") (092602)
People, these are the future workers of the world, ready to feed you..... their parasites.
The brains must be severely parasited with propaganda when the admirers of Hilter use the swastika as a label, then again, the meaning could be double, just as when the neo-nazies paint a swastika on holocaust graves.
Well... yer gitin betta...
Actually it's "You-Rain-Knee-Yum"
Not switches, and not "metal". This was out of Afghanistan last november:
Italian Foreign Minister Renato Ruggiero said in Brussels, where he was attending an EU meeting, that all the information at the disposal of the Italian authorities pointed to all four journalists being dead.Cutuli, in what turned out to be her last story in Monday's newspaper, reported her discovery of a consignment of deadly Sarin nerve gas in an abandoned Taliban base at Farm Hada, an hour from Jalalabad.
She said she and Fuentes had discovered a carton containing 20 glass vials containing thick yellow liquid. The box was marked "Sarin Gas" in cyrillic lettering.
The pictures were floating around FR at the time. They looked identical to this stuff.
This appears to be a label in English, written by a Russian, for Germans.
[With an uncertainty of several hundred miles. ;-)
I'm looking forward to seeing him squirm, too.
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