Bush Did the Job, Elbaradei got the Nobel Peace Prize

[Guest guest]

Bush Did the Job, Elbaradei Walked off with the Nobel Peace Prize

 

DEBKAfile Special Comment

 

October 7, 2005, 3:43 PM (GMT+02:00)

In 2002, the United States, Britain and Israel strongly suspected the

new Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Dr. Mohamed ElBaradai, of employing

secret delaying tactics to help three Muslim nations get their nuclear

weapons programs off the ground. The nations were Libya, Iran and

Egypt.

 

Intelligence data showed those programs as being nourished by the

technology, experience and expertise of Pakistan and North Korea, both

motivated by their dire cash shortage. The assumption therefore in

Washington, Jerusalem and London – later proved correct – was that

the necessary funding was put up by Tehran, Tripoli and Cairo.

 

Iraq's Saddam Hussein was also busy at the time preparing to go into

nuclear weapons production. But, whenever the UN Security Council

asked ElBaradei to go to Iraq and see what the Saddam regime was up

to, he always came back denying any signs of prohibited activity but

always adding that more checks were needed.

 

By mid-2004, a year after the US invaded Iraq - by which time Saddam

was under lock and key, most people had come to terms with the

conclusion that the Iraqi dictator was innocent of any nuclear

aspirations, or even chemical and biological programs. It was then that

the IAEA in Vienna began releasing highly-suggestive reports. Complete

installations and equipment capable of use in nuclear weapons

production were suddenly found to have been dismantled and removed

from Iraq by a hidden hand.

 

Satellite photos, commissioned by the UN watchdog, were attached to

the reports. They showed those same installations still standing in

January and February 2003, weeks before the US invasion. A second

set of photos were taken in May and June, just after Baghdad had

fallen, showed the same installations stripped to the ground, their former

sites flat and bare.

 

The IEAE director then came forward to voice concern lest the nuclear

equipment concerned fall into the wrong hands.

 

He was equally a Johnny-come-lately in the cases of the nuclear

activities of Libya, Pakistan and Egypt.

 

By means of delicate diplomacy during 2003 and 2004, the Bush

administration persuaded Libya to relinquish its nuclear weapons

industry. US military planes flew the centrifuges Pakistan supplied

Libya for uranium enrichment and its yellow cake out of the country to

the United States. Pakistan, prodded by Washington, "uncovered" a

nuclear black market ring headed by Dr Qader Khan, the father of the

Pakistan nuclear bomb, and Egypt confessed to possessing a supply of

enriched uranium for military purposes.

 

While this was going on, Dr. ElBaradei and the IAEA teams stood on

the sidelines in a supportive role.

 

These episodes demonstrate that the prime mover in dismantling the

most dangerous focii of nuclear weapons production was the Bush

administration rather than the UN nuclear watchdog and its director. It

was only after these episodes were successfully concluded that

ElBaradei realized that Washington had drawn up new rules for the

international nuclear game. He began cooperating in earnest with

America's effort to disarm North Korea.

 

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee has never been known for its

objective, impartial justice in making its prestigious awards. Israelis will

not forget that the Palestinian master terrorist Yasser Arafat was

honored with the Peace Prize in 1995 at a time that he was preparing

the most extensive suicide terrorism campaign against civilians ever

seen before. Al Qaeda learned much from this Palestinian terror

innovator.

 

The late Israeli prime minister Yizhak Rabin and the incumbent vice

premier Shimon Peres were co-recipients of the same prize. They were

genuinely under the illusion that Middle East peace was around the

corner.

 

It may be said therefore, that President Bush and Vice president Dick

Cheney, who rolled up their sleeves and got down to the job of defusing

dangerous nuclear arms projects, will have to watch ElBaradei and his

agency walking off with the credit for their efforts at a grand ceremony in

Oslo.

http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1094