A true "must read" about Iran's source of nuclear material.

This extraordinary Melanie Phillips post must be read word for word.

Here's an excerpt from a memorandum quoted therein by John Loftus, organiser of the annual Intelligence Summit:

As soon as US forces entered Iraq, the CIA began searching for Saddam’s nuclear weapons plants. What Mr. Negroponte doe not want Congress to know is that the CIA indeed found all four of Saddam’s nuclear weapons sites, reported the data through inter-agency channels, and that somehow during Mr. Negroponte’s tenure, the most important intelligence data of the Iraq war got ‘lost.’
Saddam’s nuclear weapons sites were found by Mr. David Gaubatz a member of the CIA’s Iraq Survey Group (ISG). Saddam had constructed four under water warehouses for his nuclear WMD facilities. Coffer dams were constructed along the banks of the Euphrates River, and huge subterranean vaults were excavated. The warehouses were covered with water-proof concrete and then the coffer dams were removed, so that the site appeared to be part of the river.

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It is not widely know, but open sources identify that the US Government has a satellite capable of detecting the unique frequencies generated by high speed uranium centrifuges. The satellite confirms that uranium centrifuges are operating in Syria. Syria has no known nuclear program, not even a power plant. Nor does it have a natural supply of uranium ore. Why then, are the Syrians running nuclear centrifuges?

It is reasonable to suspect that all of Saddam’s nuclear research, scientists and equipment have been relocated to his fellow Baath party members in the nation of Syria. Indeed there is no other explanation to explain the disappearance of what Saddam himself talked about on his tapes; a massive and robust program to make an atomic bomb.

A significant percentage of the intelligence community disagrees with Mr. Negroponte’s benign view of Chinese intervention in the Middle East. The opposition ‘Blue Team’ if you will, uses the Intelligence Summit as its outlet. The Blue team theorizes the existence of an international consortium of rogue states under Chinese direction. . . .

If the blue team is right, then Iran has distracted the IAEA into focusing attention on Tehran’s primitive P-1 centrifuges, while the advanced P-2 centrifuges in Syria have been producing weapons grade uranium to be loaded onto Iranian missiles carrying North Korean warheads.

"The questions that need to be asked about those WMD." By Melanie Phillips, melaniephillips.com, 4/19/07 (emphasis added).