Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who said they hoped to "leverage the Internet" to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.
But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq's secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03documents.html?ref=world
2006-11-02 16:16:20 · 10 answers · asked by got_da_scoop 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Why did they not review the information before posting it? Was it laziness? Stupidity? Or something else?
2006-11-02 16:17:12 · update #1
Could be lazyness or lack of resources to check all the documents. The idea being that other people would check them out. Maybe they thought if dangerous plans from Saddam Hussein had to be pulled off the web site, it would prove they were right. Never mind it could be dangerous and pre-1991 WMD evidence doesn't count for complaints about NOT finding WMD after this war.
2006-11-02 16:31:38 · answer #1 · answered by Eric 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sir the knowledge on how has been arround for 60 years. There is nothing new that you can't find in any library. You the had a invention prior to the internet. It was called a "book."
2006-11-03 01:00:32 · answer #2 · answered by lana_sands 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Good Question
2006-11-03 00:27:15 · answer #3 · answered by Greystoke 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hmm..tried to check your source link but it said I have to subscribe. Not gonna happen..ever. Did a Google and got no pertinent results. Any other sources?
2006-11-03 00:22:39 · answer #4 · answered by Rich B 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would like to point out an important issue, "Is said to", indicates that someone's sister's neighbor's hair-dresser said something about it. This is the Times, known for it's Racist Democrat bias, but one of the most powerful publications in the world and they can't cite their sources? Hmmm...
2006-11-03 00:19:56 · answer #5 · answered by ptilda 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Thanks for that link. I went to my kitchen cupboard and built three high yield bombs out of wine glasses soup bowls and coffee cups. Then I went to my laundry room and built an intercontinental ballistic missle with a broom handle and a vacum cleaner.
2006-11-03 00:30:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes it is strange they would post something like that,
hear is another link.
2006-11-03 00:29:55 · answer #7 · answered by Mojo Seeker Of Knowlege 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WHY DID REAGAN AND BUSH SUPPY SADDAM WITH CHEMICAL AND BIO WARFARE CAPABILITIES??
IN 1981-82
2006-11-03 00:48:41 · answer #8 · answered by cork 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
So enemy nations could build real weapons of mass destruction. that is the only way he could really find them.
2006-11-03 00:20:56 · answer #9 · answered by copestir 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
John Kerry did it
2006-11-03 00:17:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋