U.S. Working To Sabotage Iran Nuke Program

Source: CBS News

CBS News has learned that Iran is continuing to make progress on its expanded efforts to enrich uranium — in spite of covert efforts by U.S. and other allied intelligence agencies to actively sabotage the country's nuclear program.

"Industrial sabotage is a way to stop the program, without military action, without fingerprints on the operation, and really, it is ideal, if it works," says Mark Fitzpatrick, the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Non-Proliferation and now Senior Fellow in Non-Proliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Sources in several countries involved told CBS News that the intelligence operatives involved include former Russian nuclear scientists and Iranians living abroad. Operatives have sold Iran components with flaws that are difficult to detect, making them unstable or unusable.

"One way to sabotage a program is to make minor modifications in some of the components Iran obtains on the black market, and because it's a black market … you don't know exactly who you are dealing with," Fitzpatrick says.


Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/23/eveningnews/main2843582.shtml

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H'mmm, now CBS breaks a story on how the U.S. is working to sabotage Iran, after ABC exposed Black Ops. GOP'ers will express outrage that CBS dared report this story. But I wonder if these "leaks" aren't intentional to freak out Iran.

Bush sacrificed everything for loyalty...it's almost fun finding out how much that's worth.

Just what the world needs: "unstable" components around nuclear fuel ...

:banghead:

Strikes me that such behavious would be called "terrorism" if it were
to happen in the US ... which makes the US a terrorist supporting nation
in the eyes of even more people around the world ...