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2005-01-04 Africa: North

Diplomats: Egypt Produced Nuclear Material

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Posted by Fred 2005-01-04 11:08:45 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 there is nothing that is not known to the IAEA

I'm sure that part is true. Didn't ElBaradei once head up that program?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-04 11:43:38 AM|| 2005-01-04 11:43:38 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 There was a strong suggestion a while back that the Libya-Egypt "Great Man-Made River" project, which involved enormous tunnels in deep mountains, was also being used to hide a joint nuclear weapons program.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-01-04 12:30:43 PM|| 2005-01-04 12:30:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Very good catch, Anonymoose. Now I'm going to have to google that, unless you can provide a link for the background. I do love moving the bounds of my ignorance!!

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-04 1:11:43 PM|| 2005-01-04 1:11:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Odd if it's true. After Egypt's ignominious defeat by Isreal, it never struck me that Egypt had any ambition to be an aggressor. I thought that Egypt seemed quite content to live off foreign aid, just do the rah-rah talk at Arab meetings, but not be interested in doing any Arab nationalist walking except to the fridge to get some American made bonbons.

Posted by joeblow 2005-01-04 1:19:58 PM|| 2005-01-04 1:19:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 After Egypt's ignominious defeat, they went passive-aggressive. That is, horrendously antisemitic slanting of the news and entertainment in their gov't sanctioned media, and weapons smuggling across/under the border through tunnels that seem inevitably to end within Egyptian Army camps. There is nothing in this mindset that would forestall working quietly on their own nuclear program in order to go back to the more comfortable active-agressive posture. Not to mention the 'face' they would earn among other Arab countries for being the first to announce such a scientific/military triumph.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-01-04 5:48:24 PM|| 2005-01-04 5:48:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I've been pointing out for close to two years now that El Baradei was the head of the Egyptian effort for nukes until shortly before the peace agreement with Israel.

It seems obvious that he has been covering for various Arab countries pursuing nukes. If nobody in US agencies suspected as much, and nobody did anything about it, we are in serious trouble.

Posted by Kalle (kafir forever) 2005-01-04 6:08:50 PM|| [http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/categories/currentEvents/] 2005-01-04 6:08:50 PM|| Front Page Top

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