ISGQ-2003-M0004932 page 6
This meeting with Saddam is probably in 2001 based on the conversation about U.N. inspections. The briefer tells Saddam that three scientists arrested in Germany are a problem. It comes up again here:
"We still have two issues Sir (Saddam-RR). Very simple. What the doctor said about the experts. There held in Germany. They have detailed knowledge of our weaponry. So we should go and give the information that they gave already."
So three scientist are arrested in Germany and the briefer recomends that they come clean with what those men knew. In 2001 or close to it, Iraq was still keeping secrets about its nuclear program! After ten years of inspections, minus the 4 years the inspectors were kicked out that is, they were hiding WMD information.
So who are these scientists? Karl Schaab, Dietrich Hinze, and Bruno Stemmler.
Here is the story from the mans lawyer at a meeting in D.C.
"What you are probably the most interested in is the story of Schaab.
Schaab worked for many years as a specialist at MAN New Technology in Munich, a contract company that developed many confidential components of the gas-ultracentrifuge, a sophisticated technique for the enrichment of uranium. The enriched uranium is the source of energy in modern light-water reactors. This enrichment-technique was initially invented in Europe to ensure fuel production to the supply of modern western nuclear reactors. In the beginning of the 1970s, Europe wanted to become more independent from fossil energies. This is why European countries generally promoted nuclear energy. But, the same separation-technology can also be applied for the enrichment of weapon-grade uranium. Therefore all work on this field was strictly classified.
Schaab was responsible for the heart of the centrifuge, the so-called rotor. Some rotors run at 60,000 rpm, i.e. over 1000 Hertz, which places extremely high demands on the structure of the materials used. The rotor bodies are either made of flow-formed maraging (alloy)-steel or carbon fiber or composite materials. Steel rotors have a physical limit, and no further progress can be achieved. Beginning in 1980 Schaab became a key figure at MAN New Technology in developing the brand-new carbon fiber technology to make it suitable for the nuclear centrifuge. The carbon fiber rotor is much more effective than the steel rotor. Schaab developed the first working prototype of such a rotor. This took a couple of years of research and development and cost some $10 - $100 million. Although he had a key-role and invented many improvements, he was not fully accepted by his higher colleagues. So he was unsatisfied.
Schaab left MAN in the mid-1980s, because his work was not given the recognition that he felt it deserved. After the UNSCOM inspectors in Iraq detected the true extent of Schaab's assistance in the Iraqi nuclear program in 1995, he fled first to Austria and ultimately to Brazil, which refused to extradite him.
In 1998 Mr. Schaab's relatives entrusted me with his defense because they had heard about my defense work in similar Iraqi-cases. "
and from an interview with Schaab:
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"Fifth and Last Trip to Baghdad, April 1990
I received an invitation to spend two weeks vacation in Iraq with my wife. We happily agreed, looking forward to pleasant temperatures and an interesting cultural program. An Iraqi accompanied us as a translator and guide. It was a great experience to see the old places of culture and to walk on historical grounds.
The last three evenings of the vacation, however, I was picked up at the hotel and taken to what looked like a university building. It was the first time that I had seen a laboratory in Iraq. I was taken into a room with equipment that corresponded to a laboratory-scale operation. In the same room there was a press that was certainly not qualified for the pressing of the end caps into a rotor. There also was the set of chucks, which I had delivered to Iraqis. There was also a frequency converter. The air stand that I had delivered was in that room, but still in its original packaging. I was asked to put together the air stand, which I was happy to do because an offer requires that the client receive a fully working tool. When we turned on the air stand it worked according to specifications.
Next, I pressed a ring magnet into one of my carbon-fiber rings. Together with the Iraqis, I glued and pressed (with the press-machine) the lower and upper end caps into a tube. In order to harden the glue, the rotor was put in a laboratory oven for 12 hours. On this occasion, I was told that the end caps were manufactured in Switzerland.
The next evening I screwed the ring magnet into the upper end cap of the rotor, which I had glued together the previous night, and the needle with its ball into the bottom cap. With this rotor, the first simple experiments were done on the air stand. I expected Stemmler to conduct the basic investigations on the air stand, similar to those that are done at technical universities or in development departments of industry.
That same evening, the Iraqis took me to an adjacent room and showed me their vacuum test stand that they had obviously constructed and built themselves. It had been constructed poorly. Earlier, Stemmler and I had faxed the Iraqis an offer to make a vacuum test, but the Iraqis were uninterested in accepting our offer."
So this guy worked for Iraq before the Gulf War but around 2001, the Iraqis see his knowledge of their program as a major problem with removing the sanctions. Ten years after the cease fire agreement and they still were hiding nuclear information. CASE CLOSED.
Maybe they make spy in that nuclear attack...
Posted by: Juno888 | Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 01:21 AM