Iraqi Scientist Discusses A-Bomb Effort (There was no program after 91')

[truthpusher]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/international/middleeast/28scientist.html

Iraqi Scientist Discusses A-Bomb Effort

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: January 28, 2005

SLO, Jan. 27 - An Iraqi scientist has written a book in which he describes being taken to see Saddam Hussein in 1981, after 18 months in jail, and being instructed by him to build an atomic bomb.

"By the end of 1990, about 8,000 people were involved directly or indirectly in the nuclear program," said the scientist, Jaffar al-Jaffar, at a news conference on Thursday announcing the publication of his book in Norway, titled "Oppdraget," or "The Assignment."

He repeated assertions that the program would have succeeded in developing atomic weapons in the early 1990's had Iraq not invaded Kuwait in 1990, prompting an American-led coalition to drive Iraq's forces back.

"We were three years away, give or take a year," said Mr. Jaffar, who fled Iraq during the American-led invasion in 2003. In the book, Mr. Jaffar said Iraq did not have an atomic weapons program after 1991.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/international/middleeast/28scientist.html

[MidwestTransplant]

1. There goes his bonus.

[JDPriestly]

2. Why, precisely, did Clinton bomb Iraq in, was it 1998?

Does anyone know? It is unclear to me.

[renegade000]

3. well if i remember correctly

saddam had kicked out the UN weapons inspectors...so we bombed a bunch of historical/suspected WMD sites.

[leftchick]

4. 1991 Gulf War stopped Baghdad's atomic and biological weapons, top Iraqi s

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/027/world/1991_Gulf_War_stopped_Baghdad_:.shtml

OSLO, Norway (AP) A scientist considered the father of Iraq's nuclear program said Thursday that his nation would have developed atomic weapons in the early 1990s had Saddam Hussein not ordered the invasion of Kuwait.

The invasion sparked the U.S.-led Operation Desert Storm in 1991, which drove Iraq out of Kuwait and marked the end of Baghdad's nuclear and biological weapons program, said Jafar Dhia Jafar, the scientific head of Iraq's nuclear weapons program.

''By the end of 1990, about 8,000 people were involved directly or indirectly in the nuclear program,'' said Jafar, presenting his new Norwegian-language book, ''Oppdraget'', which means The Assignment, describing the program.

[geek tragedy]

5. Kind of old news, but still, thank goodness for the stupidity of our

enemies, I guess.

[Dangerman]

6. But no thanks...

To the stupidity of Bushitler, the repukes and our military who invaded Iraq twelve years later. That makes Bush and his cronies a lot more idiotic than Saddam... A whole lot more idiotic.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. It's not easy spreading hypocrisy, it's hard, hard work. eom

[truthpusher]

8. DUPLICATE from lats night

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1190546