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[casi] Iraqi claims no evidence of WMD



An Iraqi scientist who isn't Hamza, as for the Iraq Scientists Immigration
Act - George Orwell eat your heart out, best, f.


>From Democracy Now: 11.27.02

Story: AS UN WEAPONS INSPECTIONS BEGIN, A FORMER IRAQI NUCLEAR SCIENTIST
SAYS IRAQ'S NATION'S ATOMIC PROGRAM NO LONGER EXISTS: IMAD KHADDURI ALSO
EXPLAINS HOW THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION HELPED START IRAQ'S ATOMIC
PROGRAM
Earlier today United Nations weapons inspectors completed their first field
visit in Iraq in four years.

One group of inspectors drove to a large military compound in an eastern
suburb of Baghdad to search for missiles, chemical and biological weapons.
A second group, a team from the International Atomic Energy Agency, went to
a small industrial complex northeast of Baghdad to investigate Iraq's
nuclear facilities. Up to 200 inspectors are expected to soon spread out
over Iraq in search of mobile laboratories, underground factories and other
signs of banned Iraqi weapons production.

Under the terms of the resolution, Baghdad has until December 8 to produce
a list of any nuclear, chemical or biological weapons in its arsenal - the
accuracy of which weapons inspectors will be to verify. On top of the
evidence inspectors collects, chief weapons inspector Hans Blix has told
Baghdad that it must provide "convincing" proof that it no longer has
weapons of mass destruction. The Iraqi leadership has denied possessing any
such weapons.

The inspections begin a week after the Senate passed the Iraq Scientists
Immigration Act of 2002 to offer a fast track to American citizenship for
Iraqi scientists willing to blow the whistle on Saddam Hussein's alleged
weapons of mass destruction.

Today we¹ll talk to a former Iraqi nuclear scientist who worked for 30
years at Iraq¹s Atomic Energy Commission. His name is Imad Khadduri. He
left Iraq in 1998. He is now a professor at Seneca College in Canada.

Khadduri published an article last week on the news website YellowTimes.org
titled "Iraq's Nuclear Non-capability." It began:

  "As the war storm against Iraq swirls and gathers momentum, seeded by the
efforts of the American and British governments, serious doubts arise as to
the credibility of their intelligence sources, particularly the issue of
Iraq's nuclear capability. It has been often noted that reliable
intelligence on this matter is not immediately forthcoming. Moreover, such
intelligence as has been presented is spurious and often contradictory.
Perhaps it is not too late to rectify this misinformation campaign.
  "I worked with the Iraqi nuclear program from 1968 until my departure
from Iraq in late 1998. Having been closely involved in most of the major
nuclear activities of that program, from the Russian research reactor in
the late sixties to the French research reactors in the late seventies, the
Russian nuclear power program in the early eighties, the nuclear weapons
program during the eighties and finally the confrontations with U.N.
inspection teams in the nineties, it behooves me to admit that I find
present allegations about Iraq's nuclear capability, as continuously
advanced by the Americans and the British, to be ridiculous."

Guest:
  a.. Imad Khadduri, former Iraqi nuclear scientist who worked for the
Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission from 1968 until 1998. He left Iraq in 1998
to move to Canada where he now teaches at Seneca College.
Related link:
  a.. Iraq's Nuclear Non-capability Imad Khadduri article in YellowTimes
to listen to the interview Amy Goodman conducted with Imad Khadduri and
broadcast on Democracy Now 11-27-02  go to:
www.democracynow.org





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