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Thursday, March 17, 2005

Egypt Going Nuclear?

According to recent reports, Egypt may have a nuclear program of its own.
In the last several weeks, both the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have disclosed secret Egyptian operations in both areas — experiments in the development of plutonium and uranium fuel cycles as well as evidence of sophisticated chemical weapons help that was given to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.

In February, the IAEA quietly criticized Egypt for failing to report a variety of nuclear experiments for more than 20 years...While the uranium experiments appear to have been 20 or more years old, the plutonium experiments were much recent.

At least now we know what our $2 billion in annual Egyptian aid is getting us.