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| The IAEAÂ’s new director must show more vigour and backbone than ElBaradei |
| 2009-10-07 |
| El Baradei has a backbone? Who knew... Even after Iran had been caught trying to conceal its nuclear facility near Qom, the head of the United Nations nuclear inspectors attempted to play down this deception. Iran, Mohamed ElBaradei said this week, should have informed the International Atomic Energy Agency earlier. But there was no “concrete proof” that Tehran was developing nuclear weapons, he insisted. If the UN believes that, it will believe anything. Dr ElBaradei is probably the main reason why Iran reckoned it had little to lose by its violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. At every stage, the Egyptian head of the IAEA has attempted to overlook Tehran’s repeated breaches of its treaty obligations, to play down its nuclear research programme and to pour cold water on the warnings from America and Israel. He has acted as though he were Iran’s political shield: even his nuclear experts have concluded from global intelligence sources that Tehran may have the knowhow to make an atomic bomb and has worked on the military technology to produce and deliver such a weapon. But Dr ElBaradei has kept silent. Confrontational politics, apparently, is not his style. |
| Posted by:Spot |
| #6 Where they were moved I don't know The Bekaa Valley, I believe, Lumpy Elmoluck5091. There were some posts here at the time -- check the Rantburg archives. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-10-07 15:11 |
| #5 Maybe the next head of the IAEA should be John Bolton. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-10-07 14:34 |
| #4 In fact, look at all the nuclear proliferation that has gone on during El Baradei's watch. Real effective with North Korea, Libya, Syria, Burma and now Venezuela. He should be tried for war crimes! |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-10-07 11:44 |
| #3 At every stage, the Egyptian head of the IAEA has attempted to overlook Tehran's repeated breaches of its treaty obligations El Baradei is useless. Look at all the damage he caused in Iraq--and I still think Saddam not only believed and stated he had WMD's, he did. Where they were moved I don't know, but I'd like to shove them up an Egyptian *ss. |
| Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-10-07 11:36 |
| #2 It would be difficult not to. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2009-10-07 11:05 |
| #1 El Baradei has a backbone? Who knew... Of cource he has a backbone---you should've heard him negotiating his backsish with the Iranians. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-10-07 09:07 |