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While supplies last. 346-4331 UOBookstore.com U.N. finds new nuclear development in Egypt BY GEORGE JAHN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VIENNA, Austria — The U.N. atomic watchdog agency has found evidence of secret nuclear experi ments in Egypt that could be used in weapons programs, diplomats said Tliesday. The diplomats said that most of the work was carried out in the 1980s and 1990s but said the International Atomic Energy Agency also was look ing at evidence suggesting some work was performed as recently as a year ago. Egypt's government rejected claims it is or has been pursuing a weapons program, saying its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. "A few months ago we denied these kinds of claims, and we do so again," Egyptian government spokesman Magdy Rady said. "Noth ing about our nuclear program is se cret, and there is nothing that is not known to the IAEA." But one of the diplomats said the Egyptians "tried to produce various components of uranium" without de claring it to the IAEA, as they were bound to under the Nuclear Nonpro liferation Treaty. The products includ ed several pounds of uranium metal and uranium tetrafluoride — a pre cursor to uranium hexafluoride gas, the diplomat said on condition of anonymity. Uranium metal can be processed into plutonium, while uranium hexa fluoride can be enriched into weapons-grade uranium — both for use in the core of nuclear warheads. The diplomat said the Vienna based IAEA had not yet drawn a con clusion about the scope and purpose of the experiments. But the work ap peared to have been sporadic, in volved small amounts of material and lacked a particular focus, the diplomat said. That, he said, indicated that the work was not directly geared toward creating a full-scale program to make nuclear weapons. The diplomat said Egypt's program was not "cohesive." "It’s not like Iran, where there was a clear plan to produce" uranium hexafluoride, the gas that turns into enriched uranium when spun in cen trifuges, he said. He also warned against compar isons to South Korea, which conduct ed larger-scale plutonium and urani um experiments in 1982 and 2000 without reporting them to the agency. Iran, which the United States ac cuses of having nuclear weapons am bitions, developed a full-fledged ura nium enrichment program over nearly two decades of clandestine ac tivity revealed only in mid-2002. Iran says it plans to enrich only to levels used to generate nuclear fuel and not to weapons-grade uranium. In Vienna, IAEA spokesman Mark Gwozdecky said the agency would not comment on the revelations about Egypt. Cairo has denied in the past that it is trying to develop a nuclear weapons program. The country appeared to turn away from the pursuit of such a pro gram decades ago. The Soviet Union and China reportedly rebuffed its re quests for nuclear arms in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, Egypt gave up the idea of building a plutonium produc tion reactor and reprocessing plant. "We've seen the reports, and I don’t think we have anything to offer at this point except what we’ve said all along, which is, we expect all na tions to cooperate with the Interna tional Atomic Energy Agency," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. "We're sure they will look into this matter, and I would just point out that Egypt is a signatory to the non proliferation treaty." Egypt runs small-scale nuclear pro grams for medical and research pur poses, and Rady said the IAEA is monitoring that program. "Nothing about our nuclear pro gram is secret and there is nothing that is not known to the IAEA,” he said. "We don't have a secret pro gram for energy. All our program is known." Plans were floated as recently as 2002 to build the country's first nu clear power reactor. But no construc tion date has been announced, and the pro-government Al-Ahram Week ly reported late last year that the plant site, near the coastal town of Al-Dabaa, might be sold to make way for tourism development. Governor, his six bodyguards murdered in factious Baghdad BYNICKWADHAMS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD, Iraq — The governor of the Baghdad region, known for cooperating closely with Ameri can troops, was assassinated along with six bodyguards as he drove to work Tliesday in yet another bloody day of insurgent attacks that exposed grave security flaws in Iraq with elections less than a month away. Other assaults Tliesday killed five American troops as well as 10 Iraqi commandos, bringing the death toll in the last three days to more than 70. Despite the violence, which U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces have been helpless to prevent, American and Iraqi leaders insist the Jan. 30 vote will go forward. White House spokesman Scott McClellan acknowledged security "challenges" in Iraq but said the election timetable would not be changed. "For much of the country, the situ ation is secure enough to move for ward on holding elections," McClel lan said. "There are a few areas that we're continuing to work to improve the security situation, so those areas will be able to have as full a partici pation as possible in elections." While it's true that many areas of Iraq are calm, there are vast regions, including the capital, that are extremely dangerous. In places like Fallujah, which was bombed to ruins in a U.S.-led campaign in November, and the northern city of Mosul, there has been little head way in preparing for the vote. The attacks have prompted Sunni Arab clerics to call for a boycott, and Iraq's largest Sunni political party announced it was pulling out of the race because of poor security. The country’s Shiites, many of whom are in the government, want to take power, but they also want the Sunnis to participate in the vote. A low turnout because of the fear of violence or a Sunni boycott could undermine the legitimacy of the country's first free elections since the overthrow of the monar chy in 1958. McClellan confirmed that Presi dent Bush spoke with interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi on Monday, but said they did not discuss postponing the vote. They focused on "some of the ongoing challenges as Iraq moves forward toward a free, democratic and peaceful future," he said. Several Iraqi leaders, including the defense minister and the ambassador to the United Nations, have suggest ed a delay as a way to get Sunnis to take part, but other officials support Allawi and want the vote to be held on time. "So far, there is no postponement ...of the elections, and they will be held on Jan. 30,” Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told reporters. He ac knowledged the vote will "take place under very difficult circumstances, which will be a big challenge for all Iraqis and their government." Those challenges were made clear yet again Tuesday. The militant group of Jordanian ter rorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qai da in Iraq, claimed responsibility for killing Gov. Ali al-Haidari and his bodyguards, according to a statement posted on a Web site known for car rying such claims. "We tell every traitor and support er of the Jews and Christians that this is your fate,” the statement said. Its authenticity could not immedi ately be verified. Al-Haidari's three-vehicle convoy was passing through Baghdad's northern neighborhood of Hurriyah when gunmen opened fire, said the chief of his security detail, who asked to be identified only as Maj. Mazen. "They came from different direc tions and opened fire at us," Mazen said, reached on al-Haidari's cell phone. Al-Haidari was the target of an as sassination attempt last year that killed two of his bodyguards. He is the highest-ranking Iraqi official killed since the former president of the now defunct Governing Council —- Abdel-Zahraa Othman, better known as Izzadine Saleem — was assassinated in May. Al-Haidari worked closely with the U.S.-led multinational forces on rebuilding the capital. In an inter view published Tliesday in al-Muta mar newspaper, he said infrastruc ture in Baghdad was improving because of cooperation between his office and the troops. In Thailand, Secretary of State Colin Powell said he was saddened by al-Haidari's death. "It once again shows that there are these murderers and terrorists, former regime elements in Iraq, who don't want to see elections," Powell said. "They want to go back to the tyranny of Saddam Hus sein's regime, and that's not going to happen." In the American deaths, a road side bomb killed three U.S. soldiers in Baghdad, and a soldier and a Marine were killed in other attacks outside the capital, the U.S. military said. The three soldiers killed in the capital were with Task Force Bagh dad, and two soldiers were wound ed in the attack, the military said.
