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2004-01-17 Africa: North

Libyaâs black market deals shock nuclear inspectors

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Posted by TS 2004-01-17 11:11:48 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 made in malaysia from designs stolen by Paki scientists?

Posted by Frank G 2004-1-17 11:28:14 AM|| 2004-1-17 11:28:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 A question. Why would we assume Libya has the market on buying "turnkey facilities"? Would we not assume other countries have these and we don't know it.

Posted by Anonymous 2004-1-17 11:37:02 AM|| 2004-1-17 11:37:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Certainly other countries are buying the equipment. The big question is why the seller in Malaysia hasn't been raided and their records seized.

It's almost like the IAEA doesn't want to know.

Posted by Robert Crawford 2004-1-17 12:14:53 PM|| [http://www.kloognome.com/] 2004-1-17 12:14:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 U enrichment centrifuges? Why no, officer, these are just large ice-cream spinning tubs. Didn't you ever make your own ice-cream by turning that crank in the bucket until your arm fell off? The Colonel just loves ice-cream.

The real mystery to me is why we have not yet had to deal with dozens of bootleg nukes. I can only guess that the cook up your own nuke schemes have all been just fund raisers in disguse.

Posted by Craig 2004-1-17 1:05:07 PM|| 2004-1-17 1:05:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Another USELESS un function. They also claim that Iraq isn't developing Nukes. Do you believe?

Posted by Anonymous 2004-1-17 1:12:05 PM|| 2004-1-17 1:12:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I think it's getting pretty clear that Col. Q. was deep, deep, deep cover CIA.

Posted by Shipman 2004-1-17 2:16:21 PM|| 2004-1-17 2:16:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 It seems to me the function of the IAEA is to conceal, not to reveal, nuclear proliferation, so us Murcans don't get all upset and bomb somebody again. If that's right, then you could make the agrument that the IAEA is the most dangerous organization in the world.

Posted by Matt 2004-1-17 2:41:23 PM|| 2004-1-17 2:41:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 The real mystery to me is why we have not yet had to deal with dozens of bootleg nukes.

The answer is that the seller's have common sense. Selling the equitment to make a nuke is one thing, but if they sold the entire nuke and it went off in, say, New York city. Then the sellers would be screwed along with the buyers. Self-preservation motivates even men of greed to have a limit.

Posted by Charles 2004-1-17 4:38:30 PM|| 2004-1-17 4:38:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 With respect to the Malasian centrifuges, I would expect to see some in Syria. Does anyone think tha Indoneasia would be buying as well? If I were a world class asswipe, instead of a smalltime ignoramus, I would buy several shipments of centrifuges and sneak them into Niger to use a turnkey centrifuge to make tunrkey enriched uranium delivered in JIT fashion.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-1-17 5:38:13 PM|| 2004-1-17 5:38:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#10

Libyaâs black market deals shock nuclear inspectors

The IAEA is easily shocked.

I'm not.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-1-17 9:30:43 PM|| 2004-1-17 9:30:43 PM|| Front Page Top

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