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Ripp
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Good stuff there Soft. We can see where this is all heading. I think Iran has nuclear weapons already. And the thing to watch for in my opinion is an attack even though Iran has said they won't make any more uranium. No way they are going to stop. I'm sure they are making the stuff right now in a hidden area and won't stop with the agreement. Israel knows this, and so do we. So, when will Israel take them out? I mean, I really can't see them NOT taking out those reactors. I agree with you, this will be an interesting year. 
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Here's another noteworthy tid-bit that leads me to believe that all  is about to break loose in the Middle East...
http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2004/november/11_18_1.html
SYRIA FINANCES INSURGENCY WAR AGAINST U.S.
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States has quietly determined that Syria helped finance the Sunni insurgency in Iraq.
Officials said the regime of President Bashar Assad has used the state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria to relay hundreds of millions of dollars to Saddam Hussein loyalists in Iraq. They said the money has been employed to finance the insurgency against the U.S.-led coalition primarily in Iraq's Sunni Triangle.
The Commercial Bank of Syria held more than $1 billion in Saddam regime accounts on the eve of the U.S.-led war in Iraq in March 2003, officials said. Most of that money stemmed from Iraqi arms and oil smuggling as well as illegal commissions obtained from Iraqi oil sales overseen by the United Nations.
Officials said that over the last 18 months Damascus transferred up to $800 million of Saddam's assets to senior aides of the former president, several of whom have been based in Syria. They said much of the money was believed to have been transferred to ex-Iraqi Vice President Izzet Ibrahim Al Douri, identified as the chief financier of the Sunni insurgency.
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(Note from ST: After finding another article today I decided to change the name of this thread)
Something inside me keeps telling me that 2005 is going to be a Very Interesting (and terrible) year...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,138915,00.html
Powell: Iran Wants to Make Nuclear Missiles
Thursday, November 18, 2004
Associated Press
SANTIAGO, Chile — The United States has intelligence indicating Iran (search) is trying to fit missiles to carry nuclear weapons, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (search) said Wednesday.
Powell partially confirmed claims by an Iranian opposition group that Tehran is deceiving the United Nations (search) and is attempting to secretly continue activities meant to give it atomic arms by next year.
"I have seen intelligence which would corroborate what this dissident group is saying," Powell told reporters as he traveled to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Santiago. "And it should be of concern to all parties."
Pressed by reporters on the intelligence reports, Powell said the intelligence indicates that Iran "had been actively working on delivery systems" capable of carrying a nuclear weapon.
Powell said there is no evidence to suggest that Iran has developed the technology to make a nuclear weapon, but suggested that the regime is working to adapt missiles for nuclear warheads.
"I'm talking about information that says that they not only had these missiles, but I'm aware of information that suggests they were working hard as to how to put the two together," Powell said.
A senior official for the National Council for Resistance in Iran said Tuesday that a bomb diagram — along with an unspecified amount of weapons-grade uranium — was provided to Iran by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the disgraced former head of Pakistani's nuclear development which was tied to both Iran and Libya.
He said the designs were handed to the Iranians between 1994 and 1996, while Khan delivered HEU — highly enriched uranium — in 2001.
Banned in the United States as a terrorist organization, the group was instrumental in 2002 in revealing Iran's enrichment program in the central city of Natanz, based on what it said was information provided by sources in Iran.
The opposition group says a facility at Lavizan-Shian northeast of Tehran was part of a secret nuclear weapons program.
Powell declined comment on Khan, but said "for 20 years the Iranians have been trying to hide things from the international community."
Iran says its sole interest is to generate nuclear fuel through low-level uranium enrichment, but the United States suspects Iran wants to produce weapons-grade enriched uranium.
Enrichment does not violate the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty but the International Atomic Energy Agency and most of its members want Iran to scrap enrichment plans as a confidence building measure.
Iran announced suspension of enrichment last week, and the agency said it would police that commitment starting next week, in advance of a Nov. 25 IAEA board meeting.
The pledge reduced Washington's hopes of having the board refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council for alleged violations of the Nonproliferation Treaty.
Tehran has not dropped plans to run 50,000 centrifuges to enrich uranium for what it says will be the fuel requirements of a nuclear reactor to be finished next year.
It currently possesses less than 1,000 centrifuges. But if it added 500 centrifuges, experts say Iran would be able to make enough weapons-grade uranium to make a bomb annually.
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