Dont't let them bring us down!

-- Don't believe everything you read (Seemsmostly@europeanposts.com), December 05, 1999

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I'm one!!!! I'll be first.

-- LAMPWICK (paradise@island.com), December 05, 1999.

Don't let them bring us down? Why the mention of Saddam? What is your point?

-- gary elliott (gelliott@real.on.ca), December 05, 1999.

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUNDAY, DECEMBER 05, 1999 11:33:28 ET XXXXX

SADDAM HUSSEIN NOW HAS NEW NUKE-BOMB DESIGN

Saddam Hussein now possesses an efficient nuclear-bomb design, and he is shopping for the ingredients he needs to make it work, reports the NEW YORKER in fresh editions.

This explains why Saddam "has been secretly trying to transform his desert dictatorship into a world-class center for the treatment of kidney stones," writes Gary Milhollin in the December 13, 1999 NEW YORKER.

Saddam's keen interest in the health of his nation's kidneys is the result of an extra use that he has found for the special electronic switches used in lithotripters, machines that pulverize kidney stones: the high-precision switches "can trigger an atomic bomb."

Last year, the Iraqi government ordered several of these machines from Siemens, a German electronics company; it also asked for more than a hundred and twenty switches at least a hundred more than the machines would ever need. Although Siemans refuses to say whether the switches were ever shipped, U.N. inspectors have learned that the country's weapons designers have come up with "a smaller, more efficient model" for their bomb, which means that it would now be "small enough to fit on a Scud-type missile."

With weapons-grade uranium circulating on the nuclear black market, Milhollin writes, "Saddam may be able to complete his nuclear shopping sooner rather than later."

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-- hiding in plain (sight@edge. of no-where), December 05, 1999.