The Degussa furnaces were produced by a German company and sold to Iraq in the late 80's. The furnaces can be used to melt uranium and are an important element of nuclear reactors. Nuclear reactors once alleged to be part of an energy program for Iraq but Israel wasn't buying it and bombed Saddam's "peaceful" nuclear reactors to oblivian.
Now we find that the Iraq Atomic Energy Organization, an Iraq bureaucracy in charge of, ahem, developing atomic energy, met with Saddam for permission to rebuild and/or re-use these reactors damaged from the Israeli bombing.
The U.S. has discovered after its invasion of Iraq that Saddam had plenty of fine palaces for himself but he let Iraq's infrastructure die a slow death. So does any rational person really think that Saddam was spending his influx of corrupt "oil-for-palaces" cash to build a nuclear reactor for ENERGY? If so, I've got a bridge to sell, real cheap.
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In what is so far the most important evidence of Saddam personal involvement in re-building Iraq nuclear program , document CMPC-2003-012331.pdf dated January 2001 indicates that during a meeting between Saddam and the Staff of the Iraqi Atomic Energy Organization Saddam was asked by the Organization Staff to give his permission for re-using the infamous “ Degussa Vacuum furnaces ” that were used in the previous and prohibited Iraq nuclear program. These furnaces can be used to melt uranium and other nuclear related activities.
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