Iraqi Scientist Held Because He Cannot Support Bush Lies

[RainDog]

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/
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August 6th, 2003 -- 3:29 PM EDT

Remember Mahdi Obeidi?

...recently, Obeidi made more embarrassing headlines when the Associated Press revealed that he has consistently told CIA investigators that those much-discussed aluminum tubes had nothing to do with nuclear weapons development.

It turns out he's being held against his will in Kuwait apparently because he won't 'come clean' about the aluminum tubes, an on-going Iraqi nuclear weapons program and significant chemical and biological weapons stocks. ...Obeidi is not in prison. He's in a residential setting... But he can't leave... For two months they've been holding out on him, apparently because the answers he's giving them aren't the ones they want to hear.

as CNN reported back in June, former weapons inspector David Albright has acted as an intermediary between Obeidi and the CIA. "I find that there's a conflict of interest for the CIA," Albright told me on Wednesday. "The answer they're getting is that there were no significant stocks of chemical weapons or biological weapons, no significant on-going work on nuclear weapons. But they're not in a position to go to Bush and say, 'Hey, we were wrong.' So they're stalling."

[RainDog]

1. be sure to read the blog

Marshall goes into more on this situation.

yet another example of the blind ideological bullshit of the Bushistas.