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03/11/2009: "Officials: Iran does not have key nuclear material"

Iran does not yet have any highly enriched uranium, the fuel needed to make a nuclear warhead, two top U.S. intelligence officials told Congress Tuesday, disputing a claim by an Israeli official.

U.S. National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael Maples said Tuesday that Iran has only low-enriched uranium - which would need to be refined into highly enriched uranium before it can fuel a warhead. Neither officials said there were indications that refining has occurred.

Maples said the United States and Israel are interpreting the same facts, but arriving at different conclusions.

[ Maples is trying to make excuses for the way Israel is attempting to push the US and other nations into supporting a military attack on Iran. It would be no surprise if Israel attacks Iran anyway (using weapons given by the US) and is just excused on the basis that they "arrived at different conclusions". But really we should be outraged that Israel lies to us to force us into wars. At least it looks as if the US may now not join in an attack on Iran and neither can Israel be presented as doing something heroic to save us all from Iranian nukes. ]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090310/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/intelligence_threats

Replies: 3 Comments

on Saturday, March 14th, hehe said

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on Friday, March 13th, Cpt. Candor said

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on Thursday, March 12th, ur double retarted said

u mofos r pussies for not answering me. u know your asses are wrong. get over yourselves and stop making enemies with people.