U.N.: Iran Got Nuclear Info on Black Market (Pakistani Khan's network)

[DeepModem Mom]

LAT/AP: U.N.: Iran Got Nuclear Info on Black Market
By GEORGE JAHN, Associated Press Writer


VIENNA, Austria -- Iran obtained detailed instructions on how to set up the complicated process of enriching uranium, which can used to make nuclear arms, from the black market network run by a Pakistani scientist, the U.N. atomic monitoring agency said Friday.

In a confidential report, the International Atomic Energy Agency also said Iran was not giving inspectors access to a sensitive site that could be used to store equipment indicating whether the military is running a secret nuclear program.

The five-page report seen by The Associated Press was prepared for Thursday's meeting of the IAEA's 35-nation board, which could decide to refer Tehran to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions for violating an international nuclear arms control treaty.

Most board nations are concerned that Iran has resumed uranium conversion -- a precursor to enrichment -- and has refused to meet all IAEA requests about a nuclear program that was clandestine for nearly 20 years until discovered three years ago.

The report said Iran had handed over documents revealing detailed instructions on setting up uranium enrichment that it obtained from the black market network of Abdul Qadeer Khan. The scientist, considered the father of Pakistan's nuclear program, has acknowledged selling secrets to Iran, Libya and North Korea.


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/ats-ap_top13nov18,0,3131131.story

[ret5hd]

1. wasn't this one of the networks targeted by Plame?

and wasn't this "network" rumored to have been sanctioned (under the table of course) by the bushies...in fact, isn't that the reason he was given such a light sentence whe discovered?

do you think maybe the bushies WANTED him to disperse nuclear secrets so that we'd have an excuse to invade somebody, and Plame was getting in the way of this?

just askin...

[hunter]

2. The U.S. got atomic bomb making info from God. Everyone else stole it.

Honestly, who here believes that Iranian scientists and engineers could figure out how to make atomic bombs all by themselves?

They obviously stole the info, or bought it on the "black market" just like those Russians and Chinese and everyone else did.

God only meant for the Upstanding Christian Nations to have atomic bombs.

:sarcasm:

Until we drop all this spy novel cloak and dagger assholery, we're not going to get any closer to solving the problems of nuclear proliferation.

ATOMIC SECRETS!

Big fucking deal, Iran wants a bomb. That's news?

[daleo]

3. So, why isn't Pakistan in trouble for selling these secrets?

Oh, that's right, they have the bomb so they can't be touched.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Because we needed them in order to invade Afghanistan

In the meantime, Kahn still lives under house arrest. What a joke. We are holding and torturing 1000's of innocent people and the real bad guys continue to live normal lives.

[ECH1969]

5. Iran admits to UN it bought designs for nuclear bomb

Iran has admitted obtaining designs that could help it make a nuclear bomb, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said yesterday in a confidential report.

After more than two years of investigations, it is the closest that inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency have come to linking Teheran's electricity generation project with an alleged weapons programme.

The discovery will raise tensions before next week's meeting of the IAEA board of governors, which will debate whether to report Iran to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.

The IAEA report said documents bought by Iran on the black market included designs "on the casting and machining of enriched, natural and depleted uranium into hemispherical forms". Experts said the casts are used in atomic weapons.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/19/wiran19.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/19/ixworld.html
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This thing is going to boil over sometime mid-2006 as B*shcos big destraction from Iraq.