Iraqi: Tubes Weren't for Nuclear Bombs (AP article)

This "Iraqi" is the guy who buried the tubes under his rose bush!

VIENNA, Austria (AP)--A key Iraqi scientist recently told the CIA that high-strength aluminum tubes bought by Baghdad weren't meant for nuclear bomb production, as President Bush suggested in his State of the Union address, two experts on Iraq's nuclear program say.

Mahdi Shukur Obeidi, who headed a uranium-enrichment unit vital to Iraq's pre-1991 bomb plans, ``also said that since '91 they hadn't resurrected a nuclear weapon program,'' according to ex-Iraq inspector David Albright, an American physicist who acted as go-between for Obeidi to talk to U.S. authorities a few weeks ago.

Obeidi, now in Kuwait, made headlines last month when he dug up enrichment-centrifuge parts and documents he had buried in his Baghdad backyard, and gave them to the Americans. In CIA interviews, he said he hid them on orders from Iraqi leaders in 1991, during the Gulf War, for eventual use in rebuilding the bomb program, which was dismantled by U.N. inspectors after the 1991 conflict.

The White House said last month Obeidi's account was evidence of the ousted Baghdad regime's bomb ambitions. But U.S. officials did not, at the same time, report that the scientist had contradicted assertions that the program had already been revived and the tubes were part of it.


more at -
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/Intl/AP.V9135.AP-Iraq-Aluminum-T.html

but this story is laughable and more appropriately another nail in the WMD coffin. Scott Ritter who was put on the platter of the absurd by the media must be experiencing jubilation.Here's one to Scott.

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