Saddam Worked With AQ Khan
New indications of Saddam Hussein’s government attempting to procure nuclear weapons have been revealed. Coming directly from the findings of former weapons inspector David Albright, Saddam attempted to purchase a practical nuclear weapons kit from Pakistan’s nuclear scientist AQ Khan.
At the time of the 1990 offer, Iraq was embarked in a crash program to develop nuclear weapons in the face of a threatened U.S.-led attack over its occupation of Kuwait. By that date, Iraqi scientists had acquired a limited amount of weapons-grade enriched uranium but lacked several key components, including a workable design for a small nuclear warhead.
But then again, we were told that this is all our fault and that Saddam wouldn’t try to make WMD.
Note From Ryan Mauro: This actually doesn’t support the case for Operation Iraqi Freedom. It’s always been known that Saddam had a nuclear weapons program, and then he was suspected of restarting it in the 1990s AFTER the Gulf War. This item refers to the previous program that is without dispute.
