Friday, October 9, 2009

Nuke revelation suggests report politicized Did agents know of Qom project when they said program shut down?

from G2 Report

President Obama's G-20 conference admission of knowing about Iran's secret second uranium enrichment facility – possibly for nuclear bomb development – has raised questions about a 2007 National Intelligence Estimate claiming Tehran had ended its nuclear weapons program in 2003, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

"Iran has been building a covert uranium enrichment facility for several years," Obama stated at the opening of the economic summit on Sept. 25.

But if that is the case, analysts are concerned that the original intelligence report has politicized U.S. policy toward Iran through its 2007 claim that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003.

Even though that NIE report appeared in 2007, U.S. intelligence analysts knew that the program had begun in 2006. They knew that Iran was building an underground uranium enrichment facility near Qom, some 160 kilometers from Tehran. The facility is expected to be operational in 2010. ....

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