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WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.
Their comments disputed a claim made last weekend by Israel's top intelligence military official, who said Iran has crossed a technical threshold and is now capable of producing atomic weapons.
The claim made by Israeli Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin runs counter to estimates by U.S. intelligence that the earliest Iran could produce a weapon is 2010, with some analysts saying it is more likely that it is 2015.
Maples said the United States and Israel are interpreting the same facts, but arriving at different conclusions.
Wow, that's super interesting and very disturbing. If we purge Americans from top American positions, and place people who are basically spies for Israel in their place, that's basically seditious and treasonous behavior.
WASHINGTON — The new National Intelligence Estimate — which says Iran had a nuclear weapons development program, but halted it in 2003 — made President Bush's week play out like a sad country song.
dirty bombs do not require high tech state of the art.
but considering our budget ---invading iran sounds a little out of reach.
how bout not sending them a christmas card this year?
and get off of foreign oil. how bout getting out of that gas guzzler now that you found out the government lied, when we drive less the price goes down.
Well let's see. General Maples says that the United States and Israel are looking at the same facts, but have come to different conclusions. That will certainly help in determining who's right. It becomes a 50-50 proposition. (I certainly hope the US turns out to be right, although our fairly woeful assessment of the situation in Iraq prior to the little military adventure there doesn't shed a kind light on our intelligence network of late. Come to think of it, we didn't score especially high in our assessment of the situation in Vietnam before shipping troops over there, either).
So is this the same US Intelligence community that said there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq?
That depends if the case (and following war) for WMDs was made on actual intelligence gathering, or if the information was first "corrected" by the Bush Administration before being made public.
So is this the same US Intelligence community that said there were Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq?
LOL!!!!
Are you hoping this time there are actually WMDs?
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