From: Adam 

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00452.htm
> [ Middle East News Service comment: This story has already created some
> interest in the Israeli media but just how serious it has been taken is yet
> to be seen with today being the start of the working week and with today's
> edition of some of the dailies available in a few hours. For its part, the
> Independent took this item seriously featuring it as its cover story. The
> paper also included a scientific analysis by Chris Bellamy but essentially
> it said that only Israel can explain the mystery.
>
> It did explain, however, more about the isotope ratio being 108. "The Khiam
> sample, with 108 parts U-238 to one of U-235 - just under one per cent - is
> clearly enriched [uranium]- but not much." Einyan Merkazi (Hebrew only)
> suggests that these bombs were US-made GBU-28 Bunker Busters rushed to
> Israel at the beginning of the war. [The US had to apologise to the British
> Government for notifying it of the delivery while the planes made a fuelling
> stop in Scotland.]
>
> The site's suggestion of the kind of bomb involved may be pure speculation.
> What is not speculation is Einyan Merkazi's other comment: "As usual under
> these circumstance Israel starts by denying and that's just what the Foreign
> Ministry Spokesperson did. But just like the cases of the phosphorus bombs
> and the cluster bombs a correction version will eventually be issued." -Sol
> Salbe.]
>
>


If the Uranium came from US supplied bombs then the US is in a heap of
trouble wrt not supplying Uranium to non-NPT members suspected of having a
nuclear weapons program.

I'm sure the Iranians will bring this up next time the UN meets to consider
Iran, nuclear issues & proliferation.

Hurray now the Bush Admin in it's incompetence is lessening the pressure on Iran.




Adam

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