Why would anyone continue to claim the iraqi war was a failure?

[Nic_Driver]

Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq - U.S. Senate - FOXNews.com

The weapons are thought to be manufactured before 1991 so they would not be proof of an ongoing WMD program in the 1990s.

So your link tells us that Saddam had no WMD program in the 1990's JRK?

Offering the official administration response to FOX News, a senior Defense Department official pointed out that the chemical weapons were not in useable conditions.

"This does not reflect a capacity that was built up after 1991," the official said, adding the munitions "are not the WMDs this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had, and not the WMDs for which this country went to war."

"not the WMDs for which this country went to war", can it be more clear JRK?

Read a little you f-ing douche.

 

[Bfgrn]

look dude your off the reservation with this. I dont know how one gets to the point your at, bur all I can say is its not normal in my world
The yellow cake has 100 different stories and theories

Calling your fellow american sack of shit and all the other stuff that goes with it has no place in this world, this conversation, nor my life
I will pray for you and the ones you love
Dude think about what your saying and who your saying it to
It nuts

SO...

The United Nations, the international community and the scientific community are all lying just to smear your man crush Bush.

And Bush kept quite about this "secret" cache that was recently "discovered" by the U.S because he is too modest to toot his own horn...

UN...fucking...BELIEVABLE

Really?
find a link prior to 2008 about that yellow cake
I mean one that is dated 1991, not 2008
I never stated it was discovered in 2008 anyway
best I can tell w got our hands on it in 2003

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080707/pl_afp/usiraqcanadauraniumnuclear_080707154601

Quote, July 7, 2008: "At Iraq's request, the US military this year transferred hundreds of metric tons of yellowcake uranium from Iraq to Canada in a secret, weeks-long operation, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.

The 550 metric tons of uranium, which was sold to a Canadian company, was moved by truck convoy to Baghdad's "Green Zone," then flown by military aircraft to a third country where it was put on a ship for Canada, said Bryan Whitman, the spokesman.

The yellow cake was discovered by US troops after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq at the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Facility south of Baghdad, and was placed under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency."

Dude you really need to chill out also
Allot of this information should have been made public by ABC, CBS and NBC, not just fox
Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq - U.S. Senate - FOXNews.com

Iraq Nuclear File: Key Findings

INVO's extensive inspection activities in Iraq between 1991 and 1998 resulted in a technically coherent picture of Iraq's clandestine nuclear programme. The programme was very well funded and was aimed at the indigenous development and exploitation of technologies for the production of weapons-grade nuclear material and production and manufacturing of nuclear weapons. IAEA report S/1997/779 to the UN Security Council provides a detailed overview of Agency activities in Iraq and its assessment of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapon programme. An update and summary of this report can be found in S/1998/927 and S/1999/393. The reports cover all Agency activities in Iraq between 1991 and 1998.

Acquisition of weapons usable material


Indigenous production and overt procurement of uranium compounds
Iraq Nuclear Sites

Imported 4,006 kg of natural uranium and 6,005 kg of depleted uranium (DU) from Italy in 1979
Imported 1,767 kg low enriched uranium (LEU) from Italy in 1982
Imported almost 50 kg of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Russia and France
Procured 429 drums containing 138,098 kg yellowcake from Portugal in 1980
Procured 487 drums containing 148,348 kg yellowcake from Portugal in 1982
Procured 432 drums containing 137,435 kg of yellowcake from Niger in 1981
Procured 426 drums containing 139,409 kg of yellowcake from Niger in 1982
Imported 24,260 kg of uranium dioxide from Brazil between 1981-82
Produced 109 tonnes of uranium in 168 tonnes of yellowcake at Al Qaim uranium recovery plant, which was constructed between 1982-84
Produced 420 drums containing 99,457 kg uranium dioxide at Al Jesira uranium conversion facility
Produced UF6 at Rashdiya Engineering and Design Centre
Processed uranium dioxide to produce UF4, uranium metal and UF6 at Tuwaitha Chemical Laboratories
Processed UO2 and yellowcake to produce UO2, U3O8, UO3, UO4, UF4, and uranium metal at Tuwaitha
Experimental Research Laboratory for Fuel Fabrication
Processed UO2 to produce UCl4 at Tuwaitha Chemical Engineering Research laboratories


Development of indigenous uranium enrichment capabilities

Electro-magnetic isotope separation (EMIS)

Designed and constructed electromagnets and different magnet separators systems between 1982-87 in Tuwaitha
Designed and constructed one R50 and three R100 separator systems starting from 1985 and operated them until 1991 in Tuwaitha
Designed and constructed R120 and R60 separator systems in Tarmiya
Produced 640 grams of enriched uranium with an average enrichment of 7.2%

Gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment

Initiated in 1982 Constructed related facilities at Tuwaitha and Rashdiya Manufactured a barrier tube suitable for operation in UF6 in 1988

Gas centrifuge enrichment

Initiated in 1987
Built first oil centrifuge in 1987 and conducted laboratory trials; later shifted to magnetic bearing centrifuge
Developed a series of sub-critical centrifuge designs in 1989
Designed and assembled and tested magnetic centrifuges using a carbon composite rotor in 1990
Construction work for the mass production of centrifuges and a pilot-scale cascade hall at Al Furat began in 1989
R&D on chemical uranium enrichment also took place
In 1981, laser isotopic separation work began and studied both atomic (AVLIS) and molecular (MLIS) technologies


Intended diversion of research reactor fuel

Planned to divert highly enriched uranium, that was subjected to Agency safeguards, at Tuwaitha under a “crash programme” to use the material in the production of a nuclear weapon
Installed a chemical processing plant at Tuwaitha in about three months in 1990 to extract HEU from research reactor fuel
Had capability to commence the conversion of HEU from UNH to metal in 1991


Production and separation of plutonium

Reactor design did not go beyond theoretical studies
Used IRT-5000 to irradiate three indigenously fabricated natural uranium fuel elements
Separated five grams of plutonium at laboratory-scale process line in Tuwaitha

Weaponisation

Facilities

Tuwaitha had facilities and infrastructure for all Group Four activities except for the fabrication, handling, and testing of high explosives
Experimented with high explosives to produce implosive shock waves
Developed a 32-point electronic firing system using detonators and lenses developed at Al Qa Qa Tested firing system
Tested flash X-ray systems, gas gun systems, fiber optics with fast response electronic equipment, high speed electronic streak cameras towards nuclear weapons
Produced and recovered polonium by irradiating bismuth

 

[Nic_Driver]

SO...

The United Nations, the international community and the scientific community are all lying just to smear your man crush Bush.

And Bush kept quite about this "secret" cache that was recently "discovered" by the U.S because he is too modest to toot his own horn...

UN...fucking...BELIEVABLE

Really?
find a link prior to 2008 about that yellow cake
I mean one that is dated 1991, not 2008
I never stated it was discovered in 2008 anyway
best I can tell w got our hands on it in 2003

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080707/pl_afp/usiraqcanadauraniumnuclear_080707154601

Quote, July 7, 2008: "At Iraq's request, the US military this year transferred hundreds of metric tons of yellowcake uranium from Iraq to Canada in a secret, weeks-long operation, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.

The 550 metric tons of uranium, which was sold to a Canadian company, was moved by truck convoy to Baghdad's "Green Zone," then flown by military aircraft to a third country where it was put on a ship for Canada, said Bryan Whitman, the spokesman.

The yellow cake was discovered by US troops after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq at the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Facility south of Baghdad, and was placed under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency."

Dude you really need to chill out also
Allot of this information should have been made public by ABC, CBS and NBC, not just fox
Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq - U.S. Senate - FOXNews.com

Iraq Nuclear File: Key Findings

INVO's extensive inspection activities in Iraq between 1991 and 1998 resulted in a technically coherent picture of Iraq's clandestine nuclear programme. The programme was very well funded and was aimed at the indigenous development and exploitation of technologies for the production of weapons-grade nuclear material and production and manufacturing of nuclear weapons. IAEA report S/1997/779 to the UN Security Council provides a detailed overview of Agency activities in Iraq and its assessment of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapon programme. An update and summary of this report can be found in S/1998/927 and S/1999/393. The reports cover all Agency activities in Iraq between 1991 and 1998.

Acquisition of weapons usable material


Indigenous production and overt procurement of uranium compounds
Iraq Nuclear Sites

Imported 4,006 kg of natural uranium and 6,005 kg of depleted uranium (DU) from Italy in 1979
Imported 1,767 kg low enriched uranium (LEU) from Italy in 1982
Imported almost 50 kg of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Russia and France
Procured 429 drums containing 138,098 kg yellowcake from Portugal in 1980
Procured 487 drums containing 148,348 kg yellowcake from Portugal in 1982
Procured 432 drums containing 137,435 kg of yellowcake from Niger in 1981
Procured 426 drums containing 139,409 kg of yellowcake from Niger in 1982
Imported 24,260 kg of uranium dioxide from Brazil between 1981-82
Produced 109 tonnes of uranium in 168 tonnes of yellowcake at Al Qaim uranium recovery plant, which was constructed between 1982-84
Produced 420 drums containing 99,457 kg uranium dioxide at Al Jesira uranium conversion facility
Produced UF6 at Rashdiya Engineering and Design Centre
Processed uranium dioxide to produce UF4, uranium metal and UF6 at Tuwaitha Chemical Laboratories
Processed UO2 and yellowcake to produce UO2, U3O8, UO3, UO4, UF4, and uranium metal at Tuwaitha
Experimental Research Laboratory for Fuel Fabrication
Processed UO2 to produce UCl4 at Tuwaitha Chemical Engineering Research laboratories


Development of indigenous uranium enrichment capabilities

Electro-magnetic isotope separation (EMIS)

Designed and constructed electromagnets and different magnet separators systems between 1982-87 in Tuwaitha
Designed and constructed one R50 and three R100 separator systems starting from 1985 and operated them until 1991 in Tuwaitha
Designed and constructed R120 and R60 separator systems in Tarmiya
Produced 640 grams of enriched uranium with an average enrichment of 7.2%

Gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment

Initiated in 1982 Constructed related facilities at Tuwaitha and Rashdiya Manufactured a barrier tube suitable for operation in UF6 in 1988

Gas centrifuge enrichment

Initiated in 1987
Built first oil centrifuge in 1987 and conducted laboratory trials; later shifted to magnetic bearing centrifuge
Developed a series of sub-critical centrifuge designs in 1989
Designed and assembled and tested magnetic centrifuges using a carbon composite rotor in 1990
Construction work for the mass production of centrifuges and a pilot-scale cascade hall at Al Furat began in 1989
R&D on chemical uranium enrichment also took place
In 1981, laser isotopic separation work began and studied both atomic (AVLIS) and molecular (MLIS) technologies


Intended diversion of research reactor fuel

Planned to divert highly enriched uranium, that was subjected to Agency safeguards, at Tuwaitha under a “crash programme” to use the material in the production of a nuclear weapon
Installed a chemical processing plant at Tuwaitha in about three months in 1990 to extract HEU from research reactor fuel
Had capability to commence the conversion of HEU from UNH to metal in 1991


Production and separation of plutonium

Reactor design did not go beyond theoretical studies
Used IRT-5000 to irradiate three indigenously fabricated natural uranium fuel elements
Separated five grams of plutonium at laboratory-scale process line in Tuwaitha

Weaponisation

Facilities

Tuwaitha had facilities and infrastructure for all Group Four activities except for the fabrication, handling, and testing of high explosives
Experimented with high explosives to produce implosive shock waves
Developed a 32-point electronic firing system using detonators and lenses developed at Al Qa Qa Tested firing system
Tested flash X-ray systems, gas gun systems, fiber optics with fast response electronic equipment, high speed electronic streak cameras towards nuclear weapons
Produced and recovered polonium by irradiating bismuth

Gee, I wonder why Fox has different information?

 

[JakeStarkey]

JRK continues to get beaten back and forth like a Ronald McDonald punching doll.

At this point, simply gather the better of his nonsense and your answers, guys and gals, and send them to your local government and history professors and instructors at the local institutions.

JRK would have failed this assignment in a classroom dedicated to true educational principles.

 

[BlindBoo]

Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq - U.S. Senate - FOXNews.com

The weapons are thought to be manufactured before 1991 so they would not be proof of an ongoing WMD program in the 1990s.

So your link tells us that Saddam had no WMD program in the 1990's JRK?

Offering the official administration response to FOX News, a senior Defense Department official pointed out that the chemical weapons were not in useable conditions.

"This does not reflect a capacity that was built up after 1991," the official said, adding the munitions "are not the WMDs this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had, and not the WMDs for which this country went to war."

"not the WMDs for which this country went to war", can it be more clear JRK?

Read a little you f-ing douche.

Don't you love providing facts from JRK's own links ?

 

[Nic_Driver]

Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq - U.S. Senate - FOXNews.com

The weapons are thought to be manufactured before 1991 so they would not be proof of an ongoing WMD program in the 1990s.

So your link tells us that Saddam had no WMD program in the 1990's JRK?

Offering the official administration response to FOX News, a senior Defense Department official pointed out that the chemical weapons were not in useable conditions.

"This does not reflect a capacity that was built up after 1991," the official said, adding the munitions "are not the WMDs this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had, and not the WMDs for which this country went to war."

"not the WMDs for which this country went to war", can it be more clear JRK?

Read a little you f-ing douche.

Don't you love providing facts from JRK's own links ?

I told JRK that he doesn't have to go through life ignorant, that ignorance can be fixed with education...but he put me on ignore when I pointed this out.

Yes, I really enjoy the irony.

 

[JakeStarkey]

bigrebnc has been folded many times by the facts in his OPs. One of the great ones was that "Hitler was a socialist", which foundered on the expert evidence that bigrebnc himself provided. What a hoot.

 

[JRK]

Let us not forget that we sent in the CIA to pay off sadam several times but unlike the dictators that play ball with us, he would not take a dime and refused to be bought. Yes he was a horrid dictator, but the reason he became an enemy of the United States was due to us not being able to buy him and control him. Its all just a money game, which is like pointing out that the sky is blue, but I guess when you dumb, you dumb.

At the time of the invasion of Kuwait the US had taken Iraq off the list of countries who support terrorist and put Iraq on the most favorable trading partners list. We also loaned them 4 billion dollars (which was defaulted on and which the US Taxpayer had to pay). He thought the Bush (41) administration would continue to look the other way, just like Raygun did when he used banned chemical weapons against Iran and later against the rebelious Kurds. Why else would our embassador tell him that we had no opinion about the brewing conflict between Iraq and Kuwait? It wasn't until then that he actually turned on the us.

That claim was made in the movie HBO did on Saddam
I am not going into debate on that matter
Look why did Saddam not cooperate?
what was he hiding
what was he sitting on'
what did he smuggle out
what did he bury (besides his air force)

after 18 months we had no choice, what happened in 1991 had little to do with the events of 2003

 

[JRK]

Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq - U.S. Senate - FOXNews.com

The weapons are thought to be manufactured before 1991 so they would not be proof of an ongoing WMD program in the 1990s.

So your link tells us that Saddam had no WMD program in the 1990's JRK?

Offering the official administration response to FOX News, a senior Defense Department official pointed out that the chemical weapons were not in useable conditions.

"This does not reflect a capacity that was built up after 1991," the official said, adding the munitions "are not the WMDs this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had, and not the WMDs for which this country went to war."

"not the WMDs for which this country went to war", can it be more clear JRK?

Read a little you f-ing douche.

Don't you love providing facts from JRK's own links ?

You know what amazes me the most?
you guys with your rudeness and childish behavior think that I am trying to fabricate something that is not true
That link has both sides of that story

What does the fact that Iraq had yellow cake in 2003 have to do with the fact that Iraq had yellow cake in 2003?

 

[JakeStarkey]

JRK continues to fail.

 

[Nic_Driver]

JRK
Registered User
Member #28394

That link has both sides of that story

Ok, show me in that link where that same offical says they are the WMD's for which we invaded.

Show me where he says they are proof Saddam has a WMD program in the 1990's.


I can show you, in your link, where he said it wasn't either.


Your turn to show me "both sides"...

 

[JRK]

SO...

The United Nations, the international community and the scientific community are all lying just to smear your man crush Bush.

And Bush kept quite about this "secret" cache that was recently "discovered" by the U.S because he is too modest to toot his own horn...

UN...fucking...BELIEVABLE

Really?
find a link prior to 2008 about that yellow cake
I mean one that is dated 1991, not 2008
I never stated it was discovered in 2008 anyway
best I can tell w got our hands on it in 2003

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080707/pl_afp/usiraqcanadauraniumnuclear_080707154601

Quote, July 7, 2008: "At Iraq's request, the US military this year transferred hundreds of metric tons of yellowcake uranium from Iraq to Canada in a secret, weeks-long operation, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.

The 550 metric tons of uranium, which was sold to a Canadian company, was moved by truck convoy to Baghdad's "Green Zone," then flown by military aircraft to a third country where it was put on a ship for Canada, said Bryan Whitman, the spokesman.

The yellow cake was discovered by US troops after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq at the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Facility south of Baghdad, and was placed under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency."

Dude you really need to chill out also
Allot of this information should have been made public by ABC, CBS and NBC, not just fox
Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq - U.S. Senate - FOXNews.com

Iraq Nuclear File: Key Findings

INVO's extensive inspection activities in Iraq between 1991 and 1998 resulted in a technically coherent picture of Iraq's clandestine nuclear programme. The programme was very well funded and was aimed at the indigenous development and exploitation of technologies for the production of weapons-grade nuclear material and production and manufacturing of nuclear weapons. IAEA report S/1997/779 to the UN Security Council provides a detailed overview of Agency activities in Iraq and its assessment of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapon programme. An update and summary of this report can be found in S/1998/927 and S/1999/393. The reports cover all Agency activities in Iraq between 1991 and 1998.

Acquisition of weapons usable material


Indigenous production and overt procurement of uranium compounds
Iraq Nuclear Sites

Imported 4,006 kg of natural uranium and 6,005 kg of depleted uranium (DU) from Italy in 1979
Imported 1,767 kg low enriched uranium (LEU) from Italy in 1982
Imported almost 50 kg of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Russia and France
Procured 429 drums containing 138,098 kg yellowcake from Portugal in 1980
Procured 487 drums containing 148,348 kg yellowcake from Portugal in 1982
Procured 432 drums containing 137,435 kg of yellowcake from Niger in 1981
Procured 426 drums containing 139,409 kg of yellowcake from Niger in 1982
Imported 24,260 kg of uranium dioxide from Brazil between 1981-82
Produced 109 tonnes of uranium in 168 tonnes of yellowcake at Al Qaim uranium recovery plant, which was constructed between 1982-84
Produced 420 drums containing 99,457 kg uranium dioxide at Al Jesira uranium conversion facility
Produced UF6 at Rashdiya Engineering and Design Centre
Processed uranium dioxide to produce UF4, uranium metal and UF6 at Tuwaitha Chemical Laboratories
Processed UO2 and yellowcake to produce UO2, U3O8, UO3, UO4, UF4, and uranium metal at Tuwaitha
Experimental Research Laboratory for Fuel Fabrication
Processed UO2 to produce UCl4 at Tuwaitha Chemical Engineering Research laboratories


Development of indigenous uranium enrichment capabilities

Electro-magnetic isotope separation (EMIS)

Designed and constructed electromagnets and different magnet separators systems between 1982-87 in Tuwaitha
Designed and constructed one R50 and three R100 separator systems starting from 1985 and operated them until 1991 in Tuwaitha
Designed and constructed R120 and R60 separator systems in Tarmiya
Produced 640 grams of enriched uranium with an average enrichment of 7.2%

Gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment

Initiated in 1982 Constructed related facilities at Tuwaitha and Rashdiya Manufactured a barrier tube suitable for operation in UF6 in 1988

Gas centrifuge enrichment

Initiated in 1987
Built first oil centrifuge in 1987 and conducted laboratory trials; later shifted to magnetic bearing centrifuge
Developed a series of sub-critical centrifuge designs in 1989
Designed and assembled and tested magnetic centrifuges using a carbon composite rotor in 1990
Construction work for the mass production of centrifuges and a pilot-scale cascade hall at Al Furat began in 1989
R&D on chemical uranium enrichment also took place
In 1981, laser isotopic separation work began and studied both atomic (AVLIS) and molecular (MLIS) technologies


Intended diversion of research reactor fuel

Planned to divert highly enriched uranium, that was subjected to Agency safeguards, at Tuwaitha under a “crash programme” to use the material in the production of a nuclear weapon
Installed a chemical processing plant at Tuwaitha in about three months in 1990 to extract HEU from research reactor fuel
Had capability to commence the conversion of HEU from UNH to metal in 1991


Production and separation of plutonium

Reactor design did not go beyond theoretical studies
Used IRT-5000 to irradiate three indigenously fabricated natural uranium fuel elements
Separated five grams of plutonium at laboratory-scale process line in Tuwaitha

Weaponisation

Facilities

Tuwaitha had facilities and infrastructure for all Group Four activities except for the fabrication, handling, and testing of high explosives
Experimented with high explosives to produce implosive shock waves
Developed a 32-point electronic firing system using detonators and lenses developed at Al Qa Qa Tested firing system
Tested flash X-ray systems, gas gun systems, fiber optics with fast response electronic equipment, high speed electronic streak cameras towards nuclear weapons
Produced and recovered polonium by irradiating bismuth

All you have done is confirm there was yellow cake in Iraq
really allot more than that
your link claims there was enriched uranium in Iraq, I have never made that claim
That whole thing is also very confusing. the yellow cake that was found by the US troops in 2003 was not enriched and as I recall raw is the word that was used
All you have done is made this entire subject more confusing and in all reality showed there was more than one pile of yellow cake? really to me have enriched uranium under Saddam's control is worse than the other, And until we invaded in 2003 I am not sure why anyone would think it was not in his control if he choose it to be

One other item to think on
why did this stuff stay in Iraq when Saddam was suppose to be destroying this kind of stuff until 2008? And why is it you think the statement that US troops found this same exact stuff in 2003 is a lie?
who was there watching this stuff in 2003?

I have offered both sides of this story, and neither takes away the fact that in 2003 there was yellow cake in Iraq, and according to you highly enriched uranium also

 

[JRK]

SO...

The United Nations, the international community and the scientific community are all lying just to smear your man crush Bush.

And Bush kept quite about this "secret" cache that was recently "discovered" by the U.S because he is too modest to toot his own horn...

UN...fucking...BELIEVABLE

Really?
find a link prior to 2008 about that yellow cake
I mean one that is dated 1991, not 2008
I never stated it was discovered in 2008 anyway
best I can tell w got our hands on it in 2003

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080707/pl_afp/usiraqcanadauraniumnuclear_080707154601

Quote, July 7, 2008: "At Iraq's request, the US military this year transferred hundreds of metric tons of yellowcake uranium from Iraq to Canada in a secret, weeks-long operation, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.

The 550 metric tons of uranium, which was sold to a Canadian company, was moved by truck convoy to Baghdad's "Green Zone," then flown by military aircraft to a third country where it was put on a ship for Canada, said Bryan Whitman, the spokesman.

The yellow cake was discovered by US troops after the 2003 US invasion of Iraq at the Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Facility south of Baghdad, and was placed under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency."

Dude you really need to chill out also
Allot of this information should have been made public by ABC, CBS and NBC, not just fox
Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq - U.S. Senate - FOXNews.com

Iraq Nuclear File: Key Findings

INVO's extensive inspection activities in Iraq between 1991 and 1998 resulted in a technically coherent picture of Iraq's clandestine nuclear programme. The programme was very well funded and was aimed at the indigenous development and exploitation of technologies for the production of weapons-grade nuclear material and production and manufacturing of nuclear weapons. IAEA report S/1997/779 to the UN Security Council provides a detailed overview of Agency activities in Iraq and its assessment of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapon programme. An update and summary of this report can be found in S/1998/927 and S/1999/393. The reports cover all Agency activities in Iraq between 1991 and 1998.

Acquisition of weapons usable material


Indigenous production and overt procurement of uranium compounds
Iraq Nuclear Sites

Imported 4,006 kg of natural uranium and 6,005 kg of depleted uranium (DU) from Italy in 1979
Imported 1,767 kg low enriched uranium (LEU) from Italy in 1982
Imported almost 50 kg of highly enriched uranium (HEU) from Russia and France
Procured 429 drums containing 138,098 kg yellowcake from Portugal in 1980
Procured 487 drums containing 148,348 kg yellowcake from Portugal in 1982
Procured 432 drums containing 137,435 kg of yellowcake from Niger in 1981
Procured 426 drums containing 139,409 kg of yellowcake from Niger in 1982
Imported 24,260 kg of uranium dioxide from Brazil between 1981-82
Produced 109 tonnes of uranium in 168 tonnes of yellowcake at Al Qaim uranium recovery plant, which was constructed between 1982-84
Produced 420 drums containing 99,457 kg uranium dioxide at Al Jesira uranium conversion facility
Produced UF6 at Rashdiya Engineering and Design Centre
Processed uranium dioxide to produce UF4, uranium metal and UF6 at Tuwaitha Chemical Laboratories
Processed UO2 and yellowcake to produce UO2, U3O8, UO3, UO4, UF4, and uranium metal at Tuwaitha
Experimental Research Laboratory for Fuel Fabrication
Processed UO2 to produce UCl4 at Tuwaitha Chemical Engineering Research laboratories


Development of indigenous uranium enrichment capabilities

Electro-magnetic isotope separation (EMIS)

Designed and constructed electromagnets and different magnet separators systems between 1982-87 in Tuwaitha
Designed and constructed one R50 and three R100 separator systems starting from 1985 and operated them until 1991 in Tuwaitha
Designed and constructed R120 and R60 separator systems in Tarmiya
Produced 640 grams of enriched uranium with an average enrichment of 7.2%

Gaseous diffusion uranium enrichment

Initiated in 1982 Constructed related facilities at Tuwaitha and Rashdiya Manufactured a barrier tube suitable for operation in UF6 in 1988

Gas centrifuge enrichment

Initiated in 1987
Built first oil centrifuge in 1987 and conducted laboratory trials; later shifted to magnetic bearing centrifuge
Developed a series of sub-critical centrifuge designs in 1989
Designed and assembled and tested magnetic centrifuges using a carbon composite rotor in 1990
Construction work for the mass production of centrifuges and a pilot-scale cascade hall at Al Furat began in 1989
R&D on chemical uranium enrichment also took place
In 1981, laser isotopic separation work began and studied both atomic (AVLIS) and molecular (MLIS) technologies


Intended diversion of research reactor fuel

Planned to divert highly enriched uranium, that was subjected to Agency safeguards, at Tuwaitha under a “crash programme” to use the material in the production of a nuclear weapon
Installed a chemical processing plant at Tuwaitha in about three months in 1990 to extract HEU from research reactor fuel
Had capability to commence the conversion of HEU from UNH to metal in 1991


Production and separation of plutonium

Reactor design did not go beyond theoretical studies
Used IRT-5000 to irradiate three indigenously fabricated natural uranium fuel elements
Separated five grams of plutonium at laboratory-scale process line in Tuwaitha

Weaponisation

Facilities

Tuwaitha had facilities and infrastructure for all Group Four activities except for the fabrication, handling, and testing of high explosives
Experimented with high explosives to produce implosive shock waves
Developed a 32-point electronic firing system using detonators and lenses developed at Al Qa Qa Tested firing system
Tested flash X-ray systems, gas gun systems, fiber optics with fast response electronic equipment, high speed electronic streak cameras towards nuclear weapons
Produced and recovered polonium by irradiating bismuth

All you have done is confirm there was yellow cake in Iraq
really allot more than that
your link claims there was highly enriched uranium in Iraq, I have never made that claim
That whole thing is also very confusing. the yellow cake that was found by the US troops in 2003 was not enriched
All you have done is made this entire subject more confusing and in all reality showed there was more than one pile of yellow cake. Look you think I am spinning this?
All I have ever done is supply links that stated that US troops found this raw yellow cake in 2003 after invading and we secretly shipped it out in 2008
neither being a lie according to the press. That stuff you describe above is in a far different state than I have ever claimed

One other item to think on
why did this stuff stay in Iraq when Saddam was suppose to be destroying this kinfd of stuff until 2008? And why is it you think the statement that US troops found this same exact stuff in 2003 is a lie?
who was there watching this stuff in 2003?

 

[JakeStarkey]

JRK is now spamming because he cannot carry his argument further: fail.

 

[JRK]

Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq - U.S. Senate - FOXNews.com



So your link tells us that Saddam had no WMD program in the 1990's JRK?



"not the WMDs for which this country went to war", can it be more clear JRK?

Read a little you f-ing douche.

Don't you love providing facts from JRK's own links ?

You know what amazes me the most?
you guys with your rudeness and childish behavior think that I am trying to fabricate something that is not true
That link has both sides of that story

What does the fact that Iraq had yellow cake in 2003 have to do with the fact that Iraq had yellow cake in 2003?

by the way
where in all of this did I ever state Saddam was building anything?
having
owning
in possession of when it was against the UN mandate is not nor would it ever be the same as the fabrication of
The link tells you what you want to get out of it

 

[JakeStarkey]

Whatever Saddam violated of UN resolutions does not justify US neo-con imperialistic adventurism in Iraq.

JRK continues to defend American war criminals.

 

[Nic_Driver]

Report: Hundreds of WMDs Found in Iraq - U.S. Senate - FOXNews.com

The weapons are thought to be manufactured before 1991 so they would not be proof of an ongoing WMD program in the 1990s.

So your link tells us that Saddam had no WMD program in the 1990's JRK?

Offering the official administration response to FOX News, a senior Defense Department official pointed out that the chemical weapons were not in useable conditions.

"This does not reflect a capacity that was built up after 1991," the official said, adding the munitions "are not the WMDs this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had, and not the WMDs for which this country went to war."

"not the WMDs for which this country went to war", can it be more clear JRK?

Read a little you f-ing douche.

Apparently you still can't read it for yourself JRK.

"This does not reflect a capacity that was built up after 1991," the official said, adding the munitions "are not the WMDs this country and the rest of the world believed Iraq had, and not the WMDs for which this country went to war."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!


What a maroon.

 

[JakeStarkey]

JRK is not very bright at all, and he is certainly immorally insistent he is right.

So he is ethically flawed, values deficient, and stupid to boot.

 

[JakeStarkey]

JRK is not very bright at all, and he is certainly immorally insistent he is right.

So he is ethically flawed, values deficient, and stupid to boot.

 

[idb]

I can't see how the Bush administration's reasons for the war can have any credibility when leading members were involved in PNAC which had been calling for regime change in Iraq since 1998.
The UN resolution/WMD arguments were a smoke screen to justify something they were going to do anyway.

It reminds me of Republican statements - that their most important mission is to ensure that Obama is a one-term president.
How can you take anything they say or do after that seriously?
How can anything they say or do not be viewed through the lens of those statements?