Thursday, November 18, 2004

Yes, This Time We Really Mean It

Because his intelligence was so credible last time:

The United States has intelligence indicating Iran is trying to fit missiles to carry nuclear weapons, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said.

Powell partially confirmed claims by an Iranian opposition group that Tehran is deceiving the United Nations and is attempting to secretly continue activities meant to give it atomic arms by next year.

"I have seen intelligence which would corroborate what this dissident group is saying," Powell told reporters Wednesday as he traveled to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Santiago, Chile. "And it should be of concern to all parties."

Pressed by reporters on the intelligence reports, Powell said the intelligence indicates that Iran "had been actively working on delivery systems" capable of carrying a nuclear weapon.

Powell said there is no evidence to suggest that Iran has developed the technology to make a nuclear weapon, but suggested that the regime is working to adapt missiles for nuclear warheads.

"I'm talking about information that says that they not only had these missiles, but I'm aware of information that suggests they were working hard as to how to put the two together," Powell said.

A senior official for the National Council for Resistance in Iran said Tuesday that a bomb diagram -- along with an unspecified amount of weapons-grade uranium -- was provided to Iran by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the disgraced former head of Pakistani's nuclear development which was tied to both Iran and Libya.



KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

Honestly, the Administration does virtually nothing about Abdul Khan, but here they go on their "intelligence" and nation-state Neocon crap -- again using Powell (still want to defend him).

When Rice takes over it will be NeoCon press release of the week at Foggy Bottom.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thank you, this is a issue which is near to my heart.
Is there any way I can contact you? My name's Marjorie Damico and I'd get into this more deeply.


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