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GUEST,282RA BS: Impeachment Action Needed (quickly) (280* d) RE: BS: Impeachment Action Needed (quickly) 20 Nov 07


Sorry, I meant Ritter didn't submit anything in 1999 because he had left in 1998. And here's what Blix had to say about Iraq's weapons in 1997:

Hans Blix, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, writes in a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan that there is no evidence that Iraq has an active nuclear weapons program. Blix says that the agency now has a "technically coherent picture of Iraq's clandestine nuclear program," despite some missing evidence and gaps in knowledge. He states with certainty the following: (Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency 10/6/1997)

"There are no indications to suggest that Iraq was successful in its attempt to produce nuclear weapons. Iraq's explanation of its progress towards the finalization of a workable design for its nuclear weapons is considered to be consistent with the resources and time scale indicated by the available program documentation. However, no documentation or other evidence is available to show the actual status of the weapon design when the program was interrupted." (Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency 10/6/1997)

"Iraq was at, or close to, the threshold of success in such areas as the production of HEU [high-enriched uranium] through the EMIS [electromagnetic isotope separation] process, the production and pilot cascading of single-cylinder sub-critical gas centrifuge machines, and the fabrication of the explosive package for a nuclear weapon." (Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency 10/6/1997)

"There are no indications to suggest that Iraq had produced more that a few grams of weapon-usable nuclear material (HEU or separated plutonium) through its indigenous processes, all of which has been removed from Iraq." (Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency 10/6/1997)

"There are no indications that Iraq otherwise acquired weapon-usable nuclear material." (Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency 10/6/1997)

"All of the safeguarded research reactor fuel, including the HEU fuel that Iraq had planned to divert to its 'crash program,' was verified and fully accounted for by the IAEA and removed from Iraq." (Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency 10/6/1997)

"There are no indications that there remains in Iraq any physical capability for the production of amounts of weapon-usable nuclear material of any practical significance." (Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency 10/6/1997)

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=hans_blix&printerfriendly=true


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