U.S. FINDS SCUD Cs, NUKE CENTRIFUGES IN LIBYA

[Tinoire]

U.S. FINDS SCUD Cs, NUKE CENTRIFUGES IN LIBYA

WASHINGTON -- The United States has been stunned :eyes: by the advanced state of Libya's weapons of mass destruction and missile programs.

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The team was also led to a Libyan medium-range missile program that included the Scud C. The missiles, with a range of 500 kilometers, were said to have been obtained from North Korea.

The discovery stunned Western officials and intelligence analysts who had earlier determined that Libya's technological infrastructure was insufficient for a nuclear weapons program. Officials did not say how much uranium was enriched by Libya or which country assisted Tripoli. But one official said Iraq was not a source of Libyan nuclear expertise.

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They are stunned{/b] :eyes:

[mac56]

1. Stunned! Shocked - shocked, I tell you!

:eyes:

[Maeve]

3. Yes...the usual suspects should be rounded up

and Rick's place may have to be closed for a day or two...

[amazona]

2. and libya didn't even make the axis of evil

Nice to know that our CIA seems less aware of what's going on in the world than we back-chatters sitting around DU....sheesh!!!!

[JM]

4. Libya didn't make the axis

because either Jr. couldn't spell Khaddafi, or he couldn't locate Libya on a map.

Later,
JM

[AngryAmish]

5. or locate his ass with both hands

[noonwitch]

7. Bush figured his hero, Ronnie, took care of that when he bombed them

almost 20 years ago.

[GRClarkesq]

6. Any chance centrifuges say "Made in Pakistan"?

n/t

[Devils Advocate NZ]

8. Bing! Bing! Bing! Give that man a cigar!

I have no doubt that the CIA knew about Libya's NBC programs, but I am almost 100% positive that they received assistance from Pakistan, and they can't admit that now that Pakistan is a partner in the "War On Terror".

[NickB79]

17. With friends like this

Who needs enemies?

[missile_bender]

14. More likely they say

"Made in U.S.A."

[Jacobin]

9. Making the M.E. safe for Israel to bully its neighbors

Good Show!!!!

[0007]

10. Best chuckle I've had in a long time!

I bet they'd be struck dumb if Israel was exposed.

[GRClarkesq]

11. At this point exposure of the Israeli nuclear program

would be rather anticlimatic.

[Shadder]

12. Let me guess...

Stamped on the bottom in littly tiny letters we will find "If found please return to Saddam"......

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Don't put it above them

gee golly N.Korea and Paki...

Shocked I tell you, shocked.

[gasperc]

15. so it's super advanced, more than Iraq's ever was, but we invaded Iraq

and now we are stunned at how advanced it is
on top of that, Libya pretty much suddenly decided to allow in inspectors

duh dee duh,
something stinks to high heaven

[loudnclear]

16. The US didn't "find" anything. Libya showed the weapons to the US

What do you think Gadaffi menat when he said "open inspections?"
Geeze, we try to be so damn macho about everything.

[malachi]

18. The United States has been stunned

No not stunned, the US is pining for the fjords.

[pinto]

19. somehow I think Khadafi's crazy.......as a fox. n/t

[Thor_MN]

20. Were they burried under a 10 year old rosebush?

.

[MrPrax]

21. Scuds? The US approved them...technically

From Asian Times story...
This one disappeared quickly...
Dec 12, 2003

US, Spain caught in Libya missile mixup
By Tito Drago

MADRID - The US government needs to explain why the missile shipment on a vessel intercepted a year ago on the high seas by the Spanish navy ended up in Libya, a spokesman from Spain's Defense Ministry said this week.

The official was referring to declarations made by sources from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to the Madrid daily El Mundo that claim 15 complete Scud missiles, a set of conventional warheads and 85 containers of chemical products - some 20 holding nitric acid - were ultimately delivered to Libya under a Washington decision.

The episode began on December 5, 2002, when US intelligence services informed Madrid about the route of a freighter named So San, which they suspected of trafficking weapons and which was, at the time, crossing a zone under Spain's authority in the Indian Ocean. Four days later, a Spanish frigate and warship intercepted the So San after ordering the captain to halt and firing warning shots. The vessel was found to be sailing under the Cambodian flag.

The weapons and chemicals came from North Korea and did not appear on the ship's manifest, which showed only that the merchant vessel was carrying bags of cement. After intercepting the freighter, Spain then handed the ship over to the US Navy. Immediate official explanations out of Washington and Madrid said the missiles might have been headed for the al-Qaeda network, which the US government holds responsible for the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. However, just hours later, the US administration took Spain by surprise by turning the So San over to Yemen, explaining that the cargo was actually a legal shipment of weapons purchased from North Korea by the Yemini government.
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