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Stop me if you've heard this one before

by Steven D
Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 11:23:51 AM EST

According to the Times (The Sunday Times of London this time) a Middle Eastern oil rich country, the main financier and leader of international terrorism, tried to smuggle uranium out of Africa:

IRAN is seeking to import large consignments of bomb-making uranium from the African mining area that produced the Hiroshima bomb, an investigation has revealed.
A United Nations report, dated July 18, said there was “no doubt” that a huge shipment of smuggled uranium 238, uncovered by customs officials in Tanzania, was transported from the Lubumbashi mines in the Congo.
Tanzanian customs officials told The Sunday Times it was destined for the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, and was stopped on October 22 last year during a routine check. [...]
It has also emerged that terror cells backed by Iran may be prepared to mount attacks against nuclear power plants in Britain. Intelligence circulating in Whitehall suggests that sleeper cells linked to Tehran have been conducting reconnaissance at some nuclear sites in preparation for a possible attack.
The parliamentary intelligence and security committee has reported that Iran represented one of the three biggest security threats to Britain. The UN security council has given Iran until the end of this month to halt its uranium enrichment activities. The UN has threatened sanctions if Tehran fails to do so

Please note what the Times doesn't say. It doesn't say their reporters actually saw this UN report. It doesn't provide any evidence for the supposed terrorist threat to Britain's nuclear facilities. It's main source for the report is an unnamed "Tanzanian official." And what that official has to say seems somewhat incredible:

(UPDATEs #1 and 2 below the fold)

The customs officer, who spoke to The Sunday Times on condition he was not named, added: “The container was put in a secure part of the port and it was later taken away, by the Americans, I think, or at least with their help. We have all been told not to talk to anyone about this.”

Now, for at least two years, the Bush administration has been actively planning for war with Iran, and for longer than that they have been promoting Iran's nuclear program as a serious threat to our Nation. Can you imagine anyone in the Bush administration keeping this story secret until now when they have been working so hard to build the case that Iran is the most dangerous country on the planet? This is the Bush administration that trumpets captured Al Qaida members even when their disclosure prematurely disrupted a sting operation to roll up that captured member's confederates in England and elsewhere.

I'm sorry, but this story smacks of a disinformation campaign. The story originates in another country (just as the Niger yellowcake story did) and then is allowed to percolate into the US media from abroad, giving it the appearance of truthiness. That was the same the modus operandi employed with the Niger yellowcake story about Saddam's supposed attempts to get uranium out of Africa, a story we now know to be a complete fabrication created or abetted by SISMI, an Italian intelligence Service.

It also ignores the obvious fact that Iran has its own uranium mines, some which began production in 2003 and others which began production this year. These mines within its borders are more than capable of producing more than enough U-238 for its needs. Yet, once again we are asked to believe that Iran, rather than using its own uranium, felt the need to smuggle yellowcake out of deepest, darkest Africa.

If this wasn't so serious, the farcical aspects would make me laugh. These people can't even think of a new lie, they just recycle one they already used for Iraq, hoping no one will notice, I suppose. Hell, if Iran needed to smuggle uranium, their are far countries it borders who produce more than enough, and our just as corrupt and chaotic as any African nation. Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan for starters. Not to mention all the loose nukes and nuclear material in Russia, which may also be available on the black market, should Iran feel the need to go there. That, instead, they would be involved with a bizarre smuggling scheme to get a miniscule amount of yellowcake ore (50kg per barrel according to the Times article) strikes me as simply ludicrous. That small quantity of raw ore isn't worth the trouble to smuggle.

Just wait. This story will be all over the US newspapers and cable news shows by September, along with allegations of how Hizbollah is so tightly controlled by Iran, that Hizbollah will do whatever its masters in Teheran demand, including terror attacks in Britain and the US of A. And I predict that, in time, it will be proven as false as the Niger yellowcake tale, but not before scaring the holy bejeebus out of the American public this Fall.

Iran Iran's nuclear program Hizbollah Terrorism Uranium smuggling from Africa Sunday Times Yellowcake Niger Tanzania UN Report on uranium smuggling Iran's uranium mines

Update [2006-8-8 12:18:20 by Steven D]: Apparently this isn't the first time the Times has reported on uranium smuggling from the Congo. In 2002, it reported that IRAQ was smuggling uranium from there:

Saddam's nuclear shopping tour (excerpted)
Michael Evans and Richard Beeston
September 25, 2002

IRAQI agents have been scouring countries across Africa for uranium to help Saddam Hussein to build nuclear weapons, The Times has learnt.
The dossier released by the Government yesterday noted in passing that Baghdad had recently tried to acquire "significant quantities of uranium from Africa". But what it left out was evidence supplied to the Cabinet Office's Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) showing that Saddam's agents have secretly visited a number of African countries, 13 of which have uranium as a natural resource.
Uranium, once enriched, could form the core of a nuclear bomb, but there is no evidence yet that Saddam has succeeded it acquiring it. "If Iraq had succeeded in buying uranium from Africa, the dossier would have said so," one Whitehall source said.
The Iraqis are known to have targeted the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo, though no uranium has been extracted there for several years. The mine that produced the uranium used in the American bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 is in an area controlled by Zimbabwean troops.

They even use the same reference "uranium used in the American bombs dropped on Hiroshima" in both stories. Nice little touch, that. Recycling the same phrase to rachet up the fear, because we all know how horrible Hiroshima was. Naturally, it was never proven that Saddam acquired any uranium from the Congo, depsite the British dossier on the matter back in September 2002.

Update [2006-8-8 13:26:2 by Steven D]: #2: Courtesy of Real History Lisa at Booman, here's a story from Business Day, in which the Democratic Republic of Congo vigorously denies the uranium to Iran story:

KINSHASA — The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government strongly denied yesterday that a uranium shipment left its territory bound for Iran last year. [...]
“It’s a great big lie,” Congolese government spokesman Henri Mova Sakanyi said yesterday. “All our nuclear activities are under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency.”
The [Sunday Times] article said the uranium came from a closed mine in Lubumbashi, was then driven via Zambia into Tanzania, and uncovered during a scan at the port of Dar es Salaam.
“Anyone who knows about uranium knows that it is not exported in raw form in trucks. It must be treated and purified, and we don’t enrich uranium in Congo,” Sakanyi said.

Stop me if you've heard this one before | 25 comments (25 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Stop me if you've heard this one before (4.00 / 2)

This is silly, as far as I know Iran has Uranium of its own and does not need to smuggle Uranium from Africa.

Read the European view on European Tribune

by Fran on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 11:40:17 AM EST

Re: Stop me if you've heard this one before (4.00 / 3)

Of course it's inane. However, the purpose it serves is to jack up the fear level among those less well informed than we are, thus producing that rally round the current flag wavers syndrome.

As Goering said, it's the same in every country.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Steven D on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 11:59:28 AM EST
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Action items here (4.00 / 2)

We should bombard the Times of London with requests for the names of the Americans who took this away, allegedly.
We should find the UN report and see what it really says. In the case of the UN's assassination report on the Lebanese official, blamed on Syria, Robert Parry found wholes you could drive a truck through. A Japanese truck, in fact, that was never traced.
We should write our Senators and Congresspeople RIGHT NOW and tell them we're not going to fall for this inanity and their heads will be on the chopping block -- er, ballot box -- should they fall for this wittingly or unwittingly.

This is crapola of the stinkiest order, and we should call it such, loudly, and often.

Thanks, Stephen, for bringing the stench to light.

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 12:24:12 PM EST

Re: Action items here (4.00 / 2)

From Business Day:

The Democratic Republic of Congo's government strongly denied yesterday that a uranium shipment left its territory bound for Iran last year.
A United Nations (UN) report, dated July 18, said there was "no doubt" that a shipment of smuggled uranium 238, uncovered by customs officials in Tanzania, was transported from the Lubumbashi mines in Congo.
Tanzanian officials told British newspaper The Sunday Times that the shipment was destined for Bandar Abbas in Iran, and was stopped on October 22 last year during a routine check.

It's a great big lie," Congolese government spokesman Henri Mova Sakanyi said yesterday. "All our nuclear activities are under the control of the International Atomic Energy Agency."

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 01:01:00 PM EST
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Re: Action items here (none / 1)

Thanks Lisa, I've added this as another update.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Steven D on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 01:27:27 PM EST
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Re: Action items here (none / 0)

I meant, Steven! I know a few Stephens and Stevens and usually get them cross. Sorry!

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 12:24:40 PM EST
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Re: Action items here (none / 0)

No worries Lisa. I've been called worse things than Stephen, lol.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Steven D on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 12:33:43 PM EST
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Re: Action items here (none / 0)

LOL indeed. That's a topic for a post, sometime! ;-)

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 12:45:13 PM EST
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Mitsubishi Stolen in Japan (none / 0)

Hariri Assassination By Suicide Truck Bomb ¶ Mitsubishi Stolen in Japan
Mon Nov 7th, 2005 at 12:07:26 AM PDT

and @EuroTrib

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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by Oui on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 01:40:12 PM EST
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Murdoch owns Times of London (4.00 / 2)

Rupert Murdoch bought the Times of London back in 1981. You did know this, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times

The Times of London has a wee bit more credibility than FAUX NEWS, but not much more.

"...Dammit, whatever happened to the concept of accountability for catastrophic failure?..." -Al Gore

by afs on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 12:28:04 PM EST

What I just sent the Times (4.00 / 3)

(I'm never eloquent on short notice. I'm rarely eloquent at any point, but this will have to do.) Here's what I just sent the Times (online.editor@timesonline.co.uk):

In this Times story today, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2300772,00.html, I read the following:

<QUOTE>The customs officer, who spoke to The Sunday Times on condition he was not named, added: "The container was put in a secure part of the port and it was later taken away, by the Americans, I think, or at least with their help. We have all been told not to talk to anyone about this." </QUOTE>

WHICH Americans? Who took this away??? I think this whole story is a bunch of bollocks, and want to know what the secret forces are planning to stage as a provocation to bring the US and UK into war with Iran, and whether it will involve this nuclear material.

Iran isn't stupid enough to bomb us. But I wouldn't put anything past the shadowy forces empowered by the Bush administration, or the Blair government, for that matter.

Please do a follow up. Please tell us the truth about this incident, and make the world a safer place. Please tell us what REALLY happened, and where the nuclear material went. No more Niger forgeries. No more Gulf of Tonkins. No more Pearl Harbors. No more 9/11's and Subway bombings.

Tell us what's REALLY going on.

This is a test of conscience, sanity, and reality, for your paper, and our planet. I hope and pray that you still employ some honest reporters and editors who are neither willing to shill for the corporate interests that run your government and mine, nor so gullible as to believe this story at face value.

Should you have the independence and decency to tell us the rest of the story, I'll offer hearty thanks from across the Atlantic.

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 12:44:12 PM EST

Re: Stop me if you've heard this one before (4.00 / 2)

Thanks Steven. I am so very glad to know this. I am saving this for rebuttal if needed. hugs

by BrendaStewart (stormyweather1@hotmail.com) on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 12:53:14 PM EST

Re: Stop me if you've heard this one before (4.00 / 2)

Thanks for the hat tip.

And if you're looking for update number 4, consider that the UN never touted this in any of its press releases, so far as I can tell from its Web site. So whatever was in the July 18 report was either non-existant or so insignificant not to warrant public comment. Go look for yourself. Search Google. The UN itself made no big deal re this, probably because they knew enough not to believe it!

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 01:36:01 PM EST

Re: Stop me if you've heard this one before (1.33 / 3)

An now for the good news.

The Japanese built submarine aircraft carriers. They could not produce the "exploding" kind of A bomb so they planed to use a "dirty" one on San Francisco. The attack date was set for Sept 17, 1945.

No one knows for sure how many people would have died of radiation posining should the attack have taken place. The best guess is in the low 100 thousands. The moral is clearl. Big ker-boom not necessary to do big damage.

What's the good news. Harry Truman did a preemptive strike, Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Japanese signed the instrument of surrender Sept 15, 1945.

For reasons no one can identify with today the Japanese had gone insane, were committing sudcide. See any parallels with events in the mid east?

It's time for the human race to get it's head out of it's most distasteful region. Religion was behind the Japanese and is behind events in the mid east. The mindset of the religious requires emence force to change it. Either it is changed peacefully or...

The first step to peaceful mind change begins with us. Religion must be recognized for what it is. It's not what you think. A free education is there for the taking at http://www.hoax-buster.org Religion is not innocent faith in supernatural beings. It's abject insanity.

by BC on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 11:39:38 AM EST

links? (none / 0)

BC, can you please give us some links for your assertions about the purported Japanese dirty bomb? The existence of 1200 lbs. of un-processed uranium being transported from Germany to Japan doesn't prove much, nor would it be particularly dangerous unless highly refined. Japan did not have any large-scale capability to do that at the time, though they apparently had some small-scale experiments going on.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead

by blueneck on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 01:27:40 PM EST
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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one before (none / 1)

Also posted in Orange.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Steven D on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 11:35:53 AM EST

Re: Stop me if you've heard this one before (none / 0)

Would you mind crossposting in blue? There is no waiting period for new users to comment or diarise at Eurotrib.

They say the best way to learn something is to teach it. No allowance is made for the damage done to students.

by Migeru on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 12:15:13 PM EST
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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one before (none / 0)

Done

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Steven D on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 12:32:37 PM EST
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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one before (none / 0)

Thanks.

They say the best way to learn something is to teach it. No allowance is made for the damage done to students.

by Migeru on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 01:15:52 PM EST
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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one before (none / 1)

WTF??!! -- This is the venerable Times of London???

This story is a mess like something written by 3rd graders or Bill O'Reilly. There's no such thing as "bomb-making uranium" that's different than power-producing uranium.

And if there were, it wouldn't be U238, which makes up over 99 percent of natural uranium, but U235, which must go through the difficult and expensive enrichment process to make it usable for weapons and reactors. Uranium mines have nothing to do with the enrichment end of the process, so there's no way this was "bomb-making uranium".

There is no problem getting yellowcake. The problem is getting enriched uranium. There are natural uranium deposits all over the Middle East. Iran would never have difficulty getting the raw ore. The whole conflict is about it getting the enrichment facilities to make it useful for either electric power production or nuke weapons. This story is kind of like saying, "A huge shipment of compost was seized at the border, which anonymous officials said showed Switzerland's intention to grow coca plants and become a major cocaine smuggler."

I guess Murdoch owns the Times now, but I'd thought he kept his hands pretty much off it. What a tragedy for journalism. This story is so excruciatingly childish and crude that one has to wonder if it was written by Bush himself.

FDR's response to progressive demands: "I agree. Now go out and make me do it."

by DaveW on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 12:34:10 PM EST

Re: Stop me if you've heard this one before (none / 0)

They desperately want a war with Iran, don't they?

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

by Steven D on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 12:41:04 PM EST
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Re: Stop me if you've heard this one before (none / 1)

So, is the next step to dispatch a former ambassador knowledgeable about the region to investigate the claim?

(Please, please, please!)

by no3reed on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 01:11:22 PM EST

Re: Stop me if you've heard this one before (none / 0)

Well gee, that worked so well the first time....

"If you look for the social economic motive, you will not have to wait for history to tell you what was propaganda and what was truth." - George Seldes

by Real History Lisa (lpeaseRemoveThis@gte.net) on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 01:24:27 PM EST
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2004 - Congo Wants Help at Uranium Mine (none / 0)

Congo Wants Help at Uranium Mine

KATANGA, DRC (BBC News) March 25, 2004 -- The country's Mining Minister Diomi Ndongala told the BBC that dangerous activities were taking place at the Shinkolobwe mine, in Katanga province.

Earlier, the UN's nuclear watchdog said it was concerned about the mine.

The government says it shut down the mine, but a BBC correspondent found 6,000 illegal miners at work there.

They are extracting large amounts of material containing cobalt, copper, platinum and uranium, says our correspondent.

Uranium extracted from the Shinkolobwe mine was used by the Americans in the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during World War II.

[Nagasaki was a plutonium bomb - Oui]

2004 - U.N. Assesses Uranium Mine in Democratic Republic of Congo

Hiroshima Uranium From Nazi U-boat?

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) June 1, 1997 -- When a captured Nazi U-boat arrived at Portsmouth, N.H., toward the end of World War II, the American public was never told the significance of what was on board. The U-boat had surrendered in the North Atlantic on May 19, 1945, shortly after Adolf Hitler committed suicide.

The German submarine was carrying 1,200 pounds of uranium oxide, an ingredient for an atomic bomb, bound for Japan. Two Japanese officers on board were allowed to commit suicide.

Documents now declassified, including the sub's manifest, show there were 560 kilograms of uranium oxide in 10 cases destined for the Japanese army, and two Japanese officers were aboard, accompanying the cargo.

The uranium oxide is believed to have gone to Oak Ridge, Tenn., bolstering supplies for the Manhattan Project, the U.S. bomb-building program.

It was even possible -- but not probable -- that some of the uranium headed for Japan reached there aboard the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, says U.S. Energy Department archivist Skip Gosling. The bomb dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9 used plutonium, not uranium.

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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by Oui on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 01:31:18 PM EST

North Korea ... ehh IRAN! (none / 1)

Congo Shinkolobwe Mine and North Korea - 1999

The Shinkolobwe mine [not Shinkolowbe] in the Katanga Province [11°10'S 26°40'E] is also known as the Kasolo Mine, Chinkolobwe, and Shainkolobwe. Shinkolobwe's uranium deposits were discovered in 1915. This mine, near the southern Congolese town of Likasi, produced uranium for the first atomic bombs. The Shinkolobwe uranium mine ceased was closed in 1960, when Belgium granted Congo independence.

Belgian authorities filled the main uranium shaft with concrete.

Gecamines formerly produced cobalt as a coproduct of its copper operation. Annual production of cobalt had averaged about 10,000 t since the early 1980's. Rather than flood the market, Gecamines stockpiled refined cobalt and precipitated excess cobalt from its hydrometallurgical plants' cobalt leach circuits as hydrate, which was also stockpiled. By the end of 1995, most of the high-grade cobalt hydrates stocks on hand at Luilu and Shinkolowbe had been reprocessed into cathode. Processing the stockpiled cobalt hydrates reduced company expenses by allowing several mines and concentration plants to be shut down.

Commercial mining at the Shinkolobwe mine stopped some time ago, but artisanal mining activities continue. Since 1997 upwards of 6000 miners enter the former Shinkolobwe mine site each day, without official authorization. They have excavated a huge open pit next to the former uranium mine, which had been flooded after it was mined out. The miners are interested in cobalt rather than uranium. However, uranium could also be extracted from the ore. Mine tunnels and pits are closed by concrete and water, but residual ore from the site is mined for cobalt and copper, which are in increasingly high demand because of their use in electronics, cell phones and batteries. World cobalt prices are extremely volatile, and cobalt production in Zaire is entirely a byproduct of copper mining.

By all indications, none of the activities involves the mining of uranium. Reports have surfaced that have implicated North Korea and Iraq in schemes to re-open Shinkolobwe to obtain uranium, but these remain unconfirmed. In August 1999 it was reported that the DR Congo was suspected of trying to reopen the Shinkolobwe uranium mine with help from North Korea. Mining engineers from North Korea arrived in 1999. A inferred that North Korean had been paid for their advice by being awarded a mining concession around Shinkolobwe ...

The official denial of a deal between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea was based on the fact that the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has sought United States assistance -- which it cannot receive if the Koreans are mining the same area."

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

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by Oui on Tue Aug 8th, 2006 at 01:57:36 PM EST
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