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chief, said that except in a few caSes
Iraq's government will not even discuss
humanitarian needs and how to
. address them. Is this the conduct of a
regimë. that ..wants to eliminate its.
people'ssuffering?
Yes, the United States does block the
imports of some oil and electric industry
spares, but only to prevent such.
shipments from being used as cover for
the importation of militlry hardware.
The sanctions would disappear if Saddam
accounted for all his weapons of
roMS destruction, as.promised ..Instead
he refuses to permit even a weaker UN
weapons inspection team to replace the
one he earlier kicked out.
The Iraqi people .are suffering. But
In 1970s, Iraqis inU.S.
Gleaned Nuclear Secrets
Ex-Official of Baghdad Details Data Search
the author of their misery is the man
who uses them as pawns in a game of
military and political aggrandizement,
.a game he would play even more ag-
.gressively,andat who knows what cost
in human lives, if sanctions were lifted
prematurely.
- THE WASH/NGroN POST.
sufficient in its~lf to filïlsb the work on a Ml. Albright said in an interview
By Barbara Crossette
weapon.
Wednesday that the Iraqi effort appeared
New York Times Service
The report nevertheless paints a pic- to have paid off in the beginning, as
UNITED NATIONS, New York - A ture of an exceptionally broad and well- hundreds of documents were photoformer
high-ranking official in the Iraqi financed Iraqi effort to build a nuclear copied and sent to Baghdad. But since
.secret nuclear weapons program says weapon by scouring the world's sci- then, he said, that information has be-
. that before the 1991 Gulf war, Iraqi entific librari.es, company databases and come outdated. Moreover, much more
students in the United States combed conference papers beginning in the information can now be found electronuniversity
libr¥ies for bomb-building 1970s and continuing until Iraq's in- ically from anywhere in the world.
information, and Iraqi agents lind .sci- vasion of Kuwait in 1990 and the war The availability of the Internet has
entists collected valuable data at Arner- that followed. . .played into American reluctance to alican
scientific co'nferences. The report was turned over t6. 'the; low Iraq to import advanced computers,
Khidhir Hamza, who held several Energy Department by Mr. Albright in' even though the Iraqis insist they are for
high-level jobs in Iraq before his de- November and recently released as an secondary school use.
fection in 1995, made hi~ claims in a. unclassifiell document. Iraq, like China and other nations
report prepared late last year for the After thë war, UN inspectors found looking for American secrets, also used
Institute for Science and International that Iraq's nuclear weapons program the technique of "rubbing shoulders" at
Security, an independent research group was more advanced than expected. It conferences with American experts,
in Washington. The Department of En- was dismantled, but questions remain gathering tidbits of information in conergy
had asked the institute to interview about how easily Iraq would beable to versations;
Mr. Harnza about how Iraq obtained restart it. One of the Iraqis' biggest breaks, ac-
. scientific information. The report adds another dimension to cording to Mr. Hamza's report, came in
Government officials were interested official investigations in the United 1989 at a conference on detonation techin
knowing whether any critical Amer- States and Britain that until now focused nology in Portland, Oregon: There, the
ican secrets had fallen into Iraqi hands largely on Iraq's efforts to buy crucial Iraqis learned about the most up-to-date
.and how those leaks could be plugged. equipment illegally from Wëstern coun-. lenses, which are powerful chemical ex-
A few disarmament experts question tries. . plosives that encircle nuclear material to
whether some Iraqi exiles living in the At the same time, Mr. Hamza has .' compress it and focus an explosion in-
United States may still be under pres- revealed, Iraq was using its students at ward, setting off a nuclear reaction.
sure from Iraqi intelligence agents to U.S. universities and its arms experts at "The Portland conference came at the
. continue sharing information. Iraqi ex-. s