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November 12, 2005
Vienna: Stolen Laptop Gives Insight into Iranian Nuclear Program
More evidence, as if any would be needed at this point, that the Iranian Mullahcracy seeks to wield nuclear weapons. It is the responsibility of the United States to not let that happen. I wish the Bush administration the best of luck on this: Relying on Computer, U.S. Seeks to Prove Iran's Nuclear Aims
In mid-July, senior American intelligence officials called the leaders of the international atomic inspection agency to the top of a skyscraper overlooking the Danube in Vienna and unveiled the contents of what they said was a stolen Iranian laptop computer.The Americans flashed on a screen and spread over a conference table selections from more than a thousand pages of Iranian computer simulations and accounts of experiments, saying they showed a long effort to design a nuclear warhead, according to a half-dozen European and American participants in the meeting.
The documents, the Americans acknowledged from the start, do not prove that Iran has an atomic bomb. They presented them as the strongest evidence yet that, despite Iran's insistence that its nuclear program is peaceful, the country is trying to develop a compact warhead to fit atop its Shahab missile, which can reach Israel and other countries in the Middle East.
The briefing for officials of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency, including its director Mohamed ElBaradei, was a secret part of an American campaign to increase international pressure on Iran. But while the intelligence has sold well among countries like Britain, France and Germany, which reviewed the documents as long as a year ago, it has been a tougher sell with countries outside the inner circle.
An additional note: 'the laptop' might be why notoriously ineffective Mohammad ElBaradei has been more cooperative lately.
Posted by Ruy Diaz at November 12, 2005 5:05 PM
Comments
Hello, who can prove that the laptop has comes from Iran ??? I think it's a bit funny, top secret information on LAPTOP ??? ... Iranians are not as fool as they think !
Posted by: Sheer Kianoshe steghrarzadehye painbarareh at November 13, 2005 6:05 AM
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