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 that before the 1991 Gulf war, Iraqi entific librari.es, company databases and come outdated.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