] Hamdi Shukuir Ubaydi told CIA officials that he was ] ordered to bury a gas centrifuge used to enrich uranium -- ] a necessary piece of equipment for developing a ] nuclear weapon -- in order to be ready to rebuild ] Iraq's bomb program. ] ] Ubaydi, who was head of Iraq's pre-1991 centrifuge ] enrichment program, told U.S. intelligence officials he ] was acting on orders from Saddam Hussein's government. . . . ] Other items of interest found buried in his garden ] included: ] ] A 2-foot-tall stack of related documents. ] ] A number of the most-difficult-to-make parts. ] ] Examples and templates which would be used to make a ] large number of centrifuges. A large number of ] centrifuges are needed to make nuclear weapons. This story is from several months ago. *I* read it, but it seems that many other people, including certain Democratic Presidential candidates, haven't. I find it so frustrating when I hear of anyone trying to make Saddam's regime out as some sort of misunderstood and innocent pawn in an evil Bush-administration plot. Stories about Iraq's WMD programs were *not* fictional. Iraq had the weapons, had the programs, and was provably concealing those programs. Just because we're not finding stockpiles of weapons, doesn't mean that Iraq was clean. |