Reply #12: BushCo left the barn doors open on purpose

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They wanted a well armed insurgency.


Tuwaitha Nuclear Center

Some of the buildings at Tuwaitha that were associated with Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program at the time of the Gulf War in 1991 have been destroyed and not reconstructed. Other buildings that were associated with the pre-Gulf War nuclear weapons program remain in active use, though the current activities at these buildings cannot be verified with satellite imagery.

A 1999 report issued by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), identifies several buildings that were suspected clandestine facilities at that time of the 1991 Gulf War. The report was authored by Dr. David Albright, Corey Hinderstein, and Khidhir Hamza, the former Iraqi weapons scientist.

Hamza worked as a consultant for the Institute of Science and International Security between 1997-1999. According to David Albright Iraqi defector Khadir Hamza's "statements are often inaccurate, they're inconsistent. ... was an important nuclear official for six months in 1987 - he headed what we called the 'weaponisation program', the program to actually make the bomb itself. He never headed the program to make the highly enriched uranium, which is where most of the money was. ... his information after 1990 was really second hand and gained from talking to colleagues. So I think he's distorted his title dramatically. <"Nuclear weapons expert warns of Hamza evidence" Australian Broadcasting Corporation 25/9/2002> "I must apologise that we no longer can in any way recommend Dr Hamza. I unfortunately now believe he is deliberately distorting both his past credentials and his statements about Iraqi nuclear capabilities then and now." <"Iraqi nuclear scientist's eveidence questioned" Australian Broadcasting Corporation 25/9/2002>

Some of the buildings identified in the report have been damaged since 1991.

Satellite imagery taken between 1998 and 2001 would demostrate whether there had been any changes since the UNSCOM inspectors left.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/tuwaitha-imagery.htm