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August 05, 2004

Duelfer: Saddam Was Developing Nukes

Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear weapons development program at the time of the U.S. invasion in March 2003, chief U.S. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer has told Congress.

In comments that received virtually no press coverage in the United States, Duelfer testified that Iraq was "preserving and expanding its knowledge to design and develop nuclear weapons." One Iraqi laboratory "was intentionally focused on research applicable for nuclear weapons development," the top weapons inspector said.

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The former U.N. weapons inspector, who replaced David Kay as head of the CIA's Iraq Survey Group last year, said that Saddam was financing his nuclear program by misappropriating funds from the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food Program.

Go figure on that one.

According to Duelfer, Saddam was able to use Oil-for-Food to boost his military procurement budget to $500 million annually &$0150; a 100-fold increase from 1996 to 2003.

I don't know what the botched symbol means there, either. There's a mistake here, somewhere. If the original budget was $500 million, then a "100-fold increase" would bring that up to, what?, $50 BILLION a year? That's not possible. Either the first number is too high or the "100-fold" figure is too high.

For now, let's just read: "he increased his budget greatly."

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Ivan Oelrich, a physicist at the Federation of American Scientists, told the Associated Press at the time that the low-enriched uranium stockpile could have produced enough highly enriched uranium to make a single nuclear bomb.

In March 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney said there was evidence that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program, but the claim was widely dismissed by congressional investigators as well as U.S. reporters.

posted by Ace at 01:42 PM

Comments

I question the timing of this blatantly partisan report.

Posted by: Marshall/Kos/Dean/et al on August 5, 2004 01:47 PM

I question the timing of Noon.

Posted by: Sharp as a Marble on August 5, 2004 01:59 PM

They only "could" have had "enough" to build one bomb? Psh. That couldn't even take out all of LA, there was still no reason to go to war and kill all those innocent bologna sandwiches...

I too question the timing of this report.

/sarcasm

Posted by: fat kid on August 5, 2004 02:00 PM

I think the $500 million figure is the increased amount, not the initial amount.

Posted by: Rick on August 5, 2004 02:49 PM

I read the text to say that the budget increased to $500 million was a 100 fold increase;e.g., the original budget was $5 million. The screwed up characters are a screwed up attempt at some special character encoding in HTML.

Posted by: Dave Pasquino on August 5, 2004 02:54 PM

That bit of garbled text was probably trying to be an em-dash (HTML entity hex code #150) between the two phrases.

Posted by: Bryan C on August 5, 2004 05:01 PM

I tried to be an em-dash but I failed the physical exam.

Anyhoo.
Pay no attention to the Duelfer behind the curtain!

Posted by: lauraw on August 5, 2004 05:33 PM

Yeah, that's great, but don't expect to hear it on the evening news. They're too busy covering the story of what a dynamic and sexy woman Terezza H. Kerry is.

Posted by: Scout on August 5, 2004 06:34 PM

I question the placement of the "botched symbol." What is Ace hiding and when did he hide it?

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