U.S. atomic expert doubts report of Iran weapons

[tuvor]

It's deja vu all over again...

VIENNA (Reuters) - A prominent American nuclear security expert on Monday challenged as misleading a report of new U.S. intelligence purportedly suggesting Iran was planning to build a nuclear warhead.

Iran, which hid a uranium enrichment programme from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency for 18 years until 2003, denies Western accusations it is trying to build nuclear arms under cover of an atomic power project, saying it only seeks to make electricity.

The New York Times reported on Saturday that senior U.S. intelligence officials informed the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in July about the contents of what they said was a stolen Iranian laptop computer.

It quoted officials who attended the meeting as saying the laptop contained more than 1,000 pages of Iranian computer simulations and accounts of experiments indicating a long effort to design a nuclear warhead. IAEA sources told Reuters the evidence presented was not clear-cut.

http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-11-14T234538Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-223518-1.xml&archived=False



Are we going to remember the past, or are we condemned to repeat it?:

WHY THE CIA THINKS BUSH IS WRONG
The president says the US has to act now against Iraq. The trouble is, his own security services don't agree.
13 October 2002
http://www.sundayherald.com/28384

CIA IN BLOW TO BUSH ATTACK PLANS
The letter also comes at a time when the CIA is competing with the more hawkish Pentagon, which is also supplying the White House with intelligence on the Iraqi threat.
October 10, 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,808970,00.html

WHITE HOUSE 'EXAGGERATING IRAQI THREAT'
Bush's televised address attacked by US intelligence
October 9, 2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,807286,00.html

[Nothing Without Hope]

1. This is one more step in a consistent series - trying to paint Iran as

a nuclear threat. For background info, I urge reading this entire thread, including the articles posted in the replies:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4252778
thread title (8/3/05): Three extremely important threads on Iran nukes & the Bush agenda

For some earlier rounds of Iran nuclear threat hysterics/fear-mongering by Bush Administration members and cronies and by Ariel Sharon, I urge you to also read THIS entire thread, including the articles in the replies:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1768708
thread title (5/7/05): Is anyone watching Jerome Corsi saying Iran planning to nuclear-bomb...

Recommended.

[tuvor]

2. Thank you, NWH.

Bookmarked.

[Nothing Without Hope]

3. YVW, tuvor - I also recommend this VIDEO presentation.

"Signals of Coming War" - very effective, and there is plenty that could be added to it:

http://www.bushflash.com/signals.html

:scared:

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. deja vu