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2004-06-28 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iranâs Khatami: Expansion Of Tehran-Algiers Ties Benefit Muslim World

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Posted by Mark Espinola 2004-06-28 12:52:40 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 IIRC, Washington is worried about Algiers going nuclear as soon as 2005, with Argentinian reactor and tech help from China (and France???).
Ex.http://www.maroc-hebdo.press.ma/MHinternet/Archives_558/html_588/alger.html (in french, use babelfish)
or
http://www.fas.org/news/algeria/fbis-tac-98-235.htm (a bit dated)
Spanish Intelligence Warns of Algerian Nuclear Potential
"Cesid warns that in two years Algeria will have the capacity to produce military plutonium"

Report by M. Gonzalez and J.M. Larraya

Madrid El Pais 23 August 1998

Madrid -- Algeria has renounced the atomic bomb by signing the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and accepting International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections. However it is going ahead with a nuclear program which far exceeds its civil needs and in two years' time it will have the installations necessary to produce military plutonium, a key element in the atomic bomb. This warning appears in a confidential report drafted in July by the Cesid [Higher Center for Defense Intelligence], according to which at the end of the century Algeria will be technically in a position to produce nuclear weapons if its authorities so decide. The nuclear tests carried out last May by India and Pakistan have set the alarm bells ringing in the West about the risk of atomic weapons proliferation among Third World countries. For Spain the main focus of concern is the nuclear program developed by Algeria, with the technical support of China and Argentina.

Posted by Anonymous5089 2004-06-28 8:51:56 AM|| 2004-06-28 8:51:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 bilateral cooperation in various fields

this is no biggie - hell, the US has bilateral cooperation in various fields with France

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-06-28 9:41:23 AM|| 2004-06-28 9:41:23 AM|| Front Page Top

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