Evidence grows of Iran nukes

[rodbarnett]

VIENNA (Reuters) - Western diplomats who follow the U.N. nuclear agency are increasingly certain Iran had an atomic weapons programme after recent reports that essential components had been found for making nuclear fuel or nuclear bombs.

Diplomats on the nuclear agency's governing board and a U.S. official said on Thursday U.N. inspectors in Iran had discovered components which were usable in advanced centrifuges for extracting enriched uranium.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=461990§ion=news

also reported by Aljazeera

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/2109FD7D-58AE-43D7-A9D0-38C726E2F14E.htm

[karabekian]

1. no suprise here

I for one didn't and still don't believe one word coming out of the mouths of the facist mullahs...

I believe we should do all we can to free Iran

[bobbyboucher]

2. So what if they have nukes.

What law says they cannot have nukes? If I were them, I'd be at it fast and furious.

[Vitruvius]

11. Under international law, any soverign nation has a right to build any

weapon it damned well pleases -- unless it has signed a treaty (or agreed to an armistice) that says otherwise.

International law prohibits wars-of-aggression (e.g. invading Iraq to steal its's oil); indeed, waging a war-of-aggression is "the supreme crime". Broadly speaking, international law regulates when & how weapons can be used, not the weapons themselves.

And -- under international law, all nations are equal; there is not one international law for the US (WMDs allowed) and a different international law for small countries with oil (WMDs prohibited).

Of course, Bu$h is out to change this.

[earthman dave]

3. Does "doing all we can" include invading? nt

[Dont like Bush]

4. I think they are lying about having plutonium. Where is the proof? Just

because he says he has them doesn't mean he does. I think Bush is planting this in the news to help his election. I bet he took the weapons out of Iraq and planted them in Libya so he could frame them and look good in the press.

[rodbarnett]

6. France 'investigating Libya WMD talks leak': Evidence

PARIS, Feb 19 (AFP) - France's foreign ministry and intelligence services are probing a leak of confidential embassy communications that showed Paris was aware of the US-British negotiations with Libya on weapons of mass destruction despite its assertions to the contrary, an online publication said Thursday.

The ministry and one agency, "probably" the domestic counter-espionage directorate, the DST, were looking into how an investigative and satirical newspaper, the Canard Enchaine, came into possession of the cables, extracts of which it published in its December 31 edition, the site, geopolitique.com, said.

The documents were from France's ambassadors in Canada, Libya and the United States and spoke about the negotiations between Britain, Libya and the United States which led to Tripoli's announcement December 22 that it was abandoning its efforts to make weapons of mass destruction.

France's government gave out conflicting reactions immediately after the news, with Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie saying Paris had been kept informed of the talks while Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin insisted that his ministry had not been in the loop.

Alliot-Marie eventually changed her public statements to agree with de Villepin.

But the Canard Enchaine's report, with the cable extracts, raised questions over how much Paris knew and whether it was covering something up.

A foreign ministry spokeswoman, Cecile Pozzo di Borgo, said of the geopolitique.com report that it was the ministry's policy to look into every leak of confidential information.

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=58&story_id=4912

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[Minstrel Boy]

7. George Bush makes me wish I had nukes myself.

"I believe we should do all we can to free Iran"

Until America frees itself, it can only enslave.

[Bridget Burke]

9. Well, our military forces are stretched a bit thin right now....

Time for you to run down to the recruiter!

Do your part.

[tkmorris]

12. I am fairly certain

that Vonnegut would disagree with you.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

5. This sounds like a familiar tactic, doesn't it? And what happened to...

...all of those WMDs Iraq was supposed to have?

[Stuckinthebush]

10. Let's see if I have the calculations correct here...

Iraq + no nukes = Bush invades
North Korea + nukes = Bush looks the other way

If I were a rouge nation, I'd be thinking about getting me some nukes!