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[Phoenix]

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Equipment and materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons are disappearing from Iraq (news - web sites) but neither Baghdad nor Washington appears to have noticed, the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency reported on Monday.

Satellite imagery shows that entire buildings in Iraq have been dismantled. They once housed high-precision equipment that could help a government or terror group make nuclear bombs, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a report to the U.N. Security Council.

Equipment and materials helpful in making bombs also have been removed from open storage areas in Iraq and disappeared without a trace, according to the satellite pictures, IAEA Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei said.

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In-fucking-credible!

 

[xsarien]

What's incredible is that if this is true, our military investigators - because Bush and God don't trust the UN - are blind.

Literally.

Or did they start vanishing right before the invasion?

 

[Vennt]

Well... Duh... Of course they've "disappeared"

Before Invasion:

...



After Invasion:

(But seriously, WTF? Iranian Radioactive Ninjas at work or what?)

 

[Escape Goat]

roffles

 

[Phoenix]

This gives almost instant and very scary credibility to Kerrys claims that nuclear material has been left 'almost out in the open' after the Iraq war.

The United States barred the inspectors' return after the war, preventing the IAEA from keeping tabs on the equipment and materials up to the present day.

Under anti-proliferation agreements, the U.S. occupation authorities who administered Iraq until June, and then the Iraqi interim government that took power at the end of June, would have to inform the IAEA if they moved or exported any of that material or equipment.

But no such reports have been received since the invasion, officials of the watchdog agency said.

On a different note, doesn't the president from The Sum of all Fears movie look an awful lot like/remind you of John Kerry?

 

[Kettch]

Not much of a surprise. It was shown early on that securing Iraq's nuclear material simply wasn't a priority.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,454441,00.html

 

[MIMIC]

Not much of a surprise. It was shown early on that securing Iraq's nuclear material simply wasn't a priority.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,454441,00.html

Exactly. This type of stuff was reported during the first few weeks of the war.

 

[PS2 KID]

On a different note, doesn't the president from The Sum of all Fears movie look an awful lot like/remind you of John Kerry?

Oh no. You are saying, that John Kerry is elected and we're going to be attacked with a nuculear bomb? That shit better not happen!

Now I'm wondering where the hell that equipment is and it better be tracked down and found ASAP.

 

[DarienA]

Oh no. You are saying, that John Kerry is elected and we're going to be attacked with a nuculear bomb? That shit better not happen!

"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we'll get hit again and we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States"