Via Atlas from The Guardian (Observer):
A British company has been closed down after being caught in an apparent attempt to sell black-market weapons-grade uranium to Iran and Sudan, The Observer can reveal.Anti-terrorist officers and MI6 are now investigating a wider British-based plot allegedly to supply Iran with material for use in a nuclear weapons programme. One person has already been charged with attempting to proliferate 'weapons of mass destruction'.
During the 20-month investigation, which also involved MI5 and Customs and Excise, a group of Britons was tracked as they obtained weapons-grade uranium from the black market in Russia. Investigators believe it was intended for export to Sudan and on to Iran.
A number of Britons, who are understood to have links with Islamic terrorists abroad, remain under surveillance. Investigators believe they have uncovered the first proof that al-Qaeda supporters have been actively engaged in developing an atomic capability. The British company, whose identity is known to The Observer but cannot be disclosed for legal reasons, has been wound up.
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The covert Val Plame was ob... (Below threshold)1. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 10:54 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The covert Val Plame was obviously on the job.
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1. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 10:54 AM |
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Posted on June 10, 2007 10:54
2. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 10:57 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Google Shakir al-Abssi and the USAID's Foley. I've wondered if Khan weren't helping al-Qaeda get one, not just Libya, and if so, what is at the conjunction of Val Plame, al-Ibssa, and Foley? Why, it's Yellowcake, great piles of it. And over there, why I see aluminium tubes.
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2. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 10:57 AM |
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Posted on June 10, 2007 10:57
3. Posted by OBGyns practicing their love | June 10, 2007 11:33 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
"Why, it's Yellowcake, great piles of it. And over there, why I see aluminium tubes." paris hilton
More unbaked lunacy from Wizward's resident dumb blonde "voices-in-her-head."
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3. Posted by OBGyns practicing their love | June 10, 2007 11:33 AM |
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Posted on June 10, 2007 11:33
4. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 11:53 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Yes, this is speculative. I've thought for years that Saddam's Yellowcake went from Niger to Libya, where Saddam financed Khaddafi's program, but I've been getting hints lately that al-Qaeda itself was looking at developing the bomb independently. I'd not considered that much before, thinking it would take a state to build a bomb, but now I wonder if al-Qaeda wasn't interested in doing it themselves.
And I wonder if Joe Wilson wasn't involved. There has to be some reason he tried to hide the huge blackmarket in yellow cake in Africa at the turn of the century.
OB, must you be so typically leftist?
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4. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 11:53 AM |
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Posted on June 10, 2007 11:53
5. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 11:55 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Curious, too, that Val Plame was smack in the middle of the convoluted mess the aluminium tubes and the yellow cake were. Incompetence, or treason?
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5. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 11:55 AM |
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Posted on June 10, 2007 11:55
6. Posted by Jo | June 10, 2007 1:17 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Treason.
6. Posted by Jo | June 10, 2007 1:17 PM |
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Posted on June 10, 2007 13:17
7. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 1:22 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
It's gonna be treason when the Dems figure out that claiming Joe Wilson lied to them is their best way out of his lying meme.
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7. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 1:22 PM |
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Posted on June 10, 2007 13:22
8. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 1:33 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Or google 'Jordan aluminum tubes Foley'. Powell knew about al-Abssi four years ago. He's the fellow presently holed up in the Lebanese Palestinian refugee camp under attack by the Lebanese Army. Apparently he fled Jordan for Iraq after killing Laurence Foley, a USAID Africa specialist who must have known about the yellowcake blackmarket in Africa.
Was al-Abssi al-Qaeda's point man on nuclear development, and why did he want to kill Foley? Especially with Val Plame in Jordan sniffing around about aluminum tubes.
The article referenced above says Powell said that Saddam sought high specification aluminium tubes from eleven different countries. I didn't know that.
Maybe aluminium tubes ought to be revisited. Maybe with Val Plame's sworn testimony.
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8. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 1:33 PM |
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Posted on June 10, 2007 13:33
9. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 1:45 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I'd say it's time for a Grand Jury on Plame, Wilson, and Yellow Cake. But probaby not a special prosecutor.
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9. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 1:45 PM |
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Posted on June 10, 2007 13:45
10. Posted by Mitchell | June 10, 2007 3:04 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I suppose the Left will have us wait until the threat is "imminent."
10. Posted by Mitchell | June 10, 2007 3:04 PM |
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Posted on June 10, 2007 15:04
11. Posted by Mitchell | June 10, 2007 3:06 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I believe Plame equates to incompetence; I don't think she's smart enough for treason.
11. Posted by Mitchell | June 10, 2007 3:06 PM |
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Posted on June 10, 2007 15:06
12. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 4:05 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
I suspect you're right, Mitchell, and Joe is the traitor. Watch her get immunity. Wasn't her Daddy in the Air Force?
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12. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 4:05 PM |
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Posted on June 10, 2007 16:05
13. Posted by xray | June 10, 2007 6:38 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Yeah, definitely treason. The left is suicidal and want to take everyone with them ala Jim Jones.
13. Posted by xray | June 10, 2007 6:38 PM |
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Posted on June 10, 2007 18:38
14. Posted by John F Not Kerry | June 10, 2007 7:53 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Wait a sec! Didn't Iran say that their nuclear program was only for peaceful purposes? Except, of course, when they use it to blow the Zionist regime off the map.
14. Posted by John F Not Kerry | June 10, 2007 7:53 PM |
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Posted on June 10, 2007 19:53
15. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 8:31 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Sistani's settled Persia's hash.
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15. Posted by kim | June 10, 2007 8:31 PM |
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Posted on June 10, 2007 20:31
16. Posted by Zelsdorf Ragshaft III | June 11, 2007 2:36 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
One of the saddest things is that if al Qaeda or some other terrorist org. gets a nuke and sets it off in Manhatten, people like OBGyn and the rest of the idiots on the left will claim, inspite of evidence to the contrary, that the Bush administation did it. For the purpose of attacking another nation, or some other lame reason. Bush's main fault is that he has not protected this country from its enemies within. Schumer, people in the State department, and CIA who are actively working against this adminstration are guilty of treason. They should be ferretted out and made to answer for their crimes. No more Mr. Nice Guy. This fight is too important.
16. Posted by Zelsdorf Ragshaft III | June 11, 2007 2:36 AM |
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Posted on June 11, 2007 02:36
17. Posted by kim | June 13, 2007 8:22 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Some terrorist nuked OBGyn, and bD is collateral damage. mantis is just appalled.
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17. Posted by kim | June 13, 2007 8:22 AM |
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Posted on June 13, 2007 08:22
18. Posted by kim | June 13, 2007 8:23 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Instead of love he was practicing his suicide bombing.
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18. Posted by kim | June 13, 2007 8:23 AM |
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Posted on June 13, 2007 08:23