.::The double standards of western countries with weapons of mass destruction::.

 
 
Irak Israel
 
Date   What happened?   Date   What happened?
             
09.2002   The U.S. is looking for other reasons to justify an attack against Iraq before the world’s public opinion. For example it was claimed that Iraq was within a few months in the situation to build nuclear weapons of mass destruction and this must be prevented. But a former UN inspector refuted this assertion and countered that Iraq will not be in the position to produce any weapons. Furthermore, Dick Cheney has pointed out that there exist relations between Iraq and the terrorist network of Al Qaeda, which would allow a military action to fight international terrorism. But even this claim can not be properly documented up to date and is dismissed as wishful thinking of U.S. Vice-President.   1958   Construction of the Negev Nuclear Research Center about 12 kilometers southeast of Dimona. It was built from 1958 with French assistance
             
17.09.2002   On 17th September in 2002, the cooperation of Iraq is reported in a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. It confirms that Iraq was ready, to let the inspectors back into the country to demonstrate that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction.   1962 - 1964   The Dimona reactor went online between approximately 1962 to 1964
             
    Bush urges for a quick military assault, manufactures on the 27th September a resolution with Tony Blair, which allowed the Allies, on the event that the UN weapons inspectors are hindered in their investigation to immediately go against Iraq by military force.       The majority of experts came to the conclusion that the real purpose is the production of nuclear weapons. The Israeli government has neither confirmed nor denied it, which is understood. as part of its policy of ambiguity
             
10.2002   The majority of experts came to the conclusion that the real purpose is the production of nuclear weapons. The Israeli government has neither confirmed nor denied it, which is understood. as part of its policy of ambiguity   1960er Jahre   When, at the beginning of the 1960s, the U.S. Secret Service realized the real task of the facility they demanded that Israel should allow international inspections. Israel agreed to if no IAEA inspectors, but only U.S. inspectors would be taken and all inspections should be applied before.
             
08.11.2002   On 8 Finally, in November, the UN Security Council passed Resolution No. 1441. This implies that the Iraq was given one last chance to cooperate with the inspectors of the UN and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and also to fulfill further resolutions of the United Nations.   1969   It is reported that prior to inspections false wall were installed around to hide sensitive areas. The inspectors informed the U.S. government that the restrictions imposed by Israel on the plant made their inspections useless. 1969 the inspections came to end.
             
02.2003   In his speech before the UN Security Council U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell tries to convince the world of the guilt of Iraq. It had, according to Powell's violated on several occasions against the Resolution 1441 failed, by hiding chemical warfare and continuing the nuclear weapons program which Iraq is running. Moreover, Iraq supports the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda. By this further inspections were no longer justified and the time for a military approach has come.   1986   1986 a former Dimona technician, Mordechai Vanunu, presented the press proofs for the Israeli nuclear program. Subsequently, he was kidnapped by Israeli agents, stunned and shipped from Italy to Israel. A secret court convicted him for treason and espionage to 18 years in prison.
             
    On the 8th February the chief UN inspectors Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei personally traveled to Iraq and meet there with the Iraqi government for talks. According to Blix, those talks have been very useful and successful; a further cooperation between Iraq and UN inspectors would was required by both sides and was supported.       While Vanunu was in prison, the newspaper The Times reports, that Israel would have material for 20 hydrogen bombs and 200 nuclear bombs
             
14.02.2003   On the 14th February the new report on the progress of weapons inspections was given to the UN Security Council. According to Hans Blix no weapons of mass destruction had been found, but there were many unanswered questions which clarification is urgently needed. Again, he speaks for the extension of the inspections.   2004   In Spring Mordechai Vanunu was released from prison under strict conditions. Among other things he is not allowed to leave Israel, not allowed to approach foreign embassy and must give accountability for planned relocation. In addition, he is not allowed to use neither cell phones nor internet use, and any contact with foreign journalists is prohibited too. A passport has been denied.
             
16.02.2003   "It is time to end the affair, enough is enough," says Condoleezza Rice, the security advisor to U.S. presidents, in an interview with NBC television on the 16th February. She sees no sense in extending the UN inspections; instead this step would only decrease the pressure on Iraq. In another interview she announces the developing of a new resolution, but also pointed out that the U.S. is not depended on a further resolution of the UN in order to use military action against Iraq. The U.S. ready for a solo trip without the mandate of the United Nations.   2004   In recent times doubts about the safety of the 40-year-old reactor have arisen. As a precaution, the authorities in 2004 had distributed iodine tablets to the population in the environment.
             
20.03.2003   After due to the opposing general positions there was no unity for another resolution in the UN Security Council on Iraq, the Iraq conflict lead by the U.S. attack on Iraq into the Third Gulf War.   2006  

In the year 2006 a citizens' initiative of residents formed due to the concern for their health and safety. .
             
29.05.2003   The U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said in the British magazine Vanity Fair that the issue of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction was primary used for political reasons for the invasion. The weapons of mass destruction in Baghdad were never the main war reason for the USA. "For bureaucratic reasons," the U.S. government had concentrated on this issue, because this was one reason that everyone could have agree to.        
             
    read also Project for the New American Century.      

 
 

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