What do we know about El-Baradei? As Egyptians,we know that El-Baradei was head of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for 3 periods,Nobel prize for peace winner,and the person who has helped the US into Iraq after he wrote his filthy,full of lies report that the US used to invade Iraq,he was made and preserved by the US and a dual nationality citizen (has Egyptian and American citizenships),right?WRONG.
This is what the old regime told us about El-Baradei,that's what they want us to believe,but after a little ,yet exhausting,search I can tell you he's clear of all these “charges” (if you can call them that).
El-baradei never supported war on Iraq,he was against it,and the report he and Dr. Blix wrote was in favour of Iraq,yet the US (as they usually do) chose not to listen to the UN Security Council.
ELbaradei's work in Iraq was divided into two stages:
- reconnaissance phase: was aimed at re-establishing rapidly the knowledge base of Iraq's nuclear capabilities, ensuring that nuclear activities at known key facilities had not been resumed, verifying the location of nuclear material and relevant non-nuclear material and equipment, and identifying the current workplaces of former key Iraqi personnel.
- investigative phase: is achieving an understanding of Iraq's activities over the last four years, in particular in areas identified by States(countries who are member of the UN Security Council) as being of concern and those identified by the IAEA on the basis of its own analysis
the following are number of reports and documents acquired from the IAEA official website www.iaea.org:
Apparently Elbaradei was not in favour of war on Iraq even during the update reports he gave to the UN,here he states clearly in the conclusion of his report that:
- “As I have reported on numerous occasions, the IAEA concluded, by December 1998, that it had neutralized Iraq's past nuclear programme and that, therefore, there were no unresolved disarmament issues left at that time.”
- “We have to date found no evidence of ongoing prohibited nuclear or nuclear related activities in Iraq”
This statement was made on 14 February 2003. The lines above are quotes from that statement.
In Elbaradei's statement to the UN Security Council in March 2003 Elbaradei clearly stated that the industrial capacity of Iraq has “deteriorated substantially” due to the departure of the foreign support that was often present in the late 1980s,the departure of large number of skilled staff of Iraq and the inability of Iraq to maintain sophisticated equipment.
- No resume of nuclear activity in buildings that were there in 1998
- No resume of nuclear activity at recently inspected sites
- No import of Uranium since 1990
- Aluminium tube import wasn't for centrifuge enrichment and it's difficult to use them for that matter
he also told told UN Security Council in March 2003 that documents purporting to show Iraq had tried to acquire Uranium from Niger were not authentic.
Click here to watch the first part of statement
Click here to watch the second part of the statemet.
Actually, Elbaradei and Blix were threatened to be discredited by the US if their report didn't provide the legal cover for the US war on Iraq. In the interview of Ms. Amanpour and Dr. Blix, Blix speaks about his book “Mass Destruction: Truth and Consequences” about his experience in Iraq about the disarmament. He described the situation like it was the medieval ages and he was supposed to prove that Iraqis aren't witches while everyone believed them to be,he also stated in his book that “the absence of evidence isn't the evidence of absence”.
Blix said that the US ignored what they (he and EL-Baradei) said in their reports to the UN Security Council. He also mentioned that in summer 2002,the US started the build to invade Iraq (which happened in 2003) even thought by May 2003 it was obvious that there were no weapons of Mass destruction.
On the 25th minute of the 58 minutes-long interview he clearly states that Dick Cheney said he would not hesitate to discredit the inspectors if their report wasn't in favour of “disarmament”.
Dick Cheney said in October 2002 that inspectors are useless at best. Blix mentioned in that interview that Chemical weapons aren't weapons of mass destruction since their effect is rather localized.
Click here to watch the interview.
It's worth mentioning that Elbaradei said if the US and other nuclear countries like the UK and France really had credibility,they showed dismantle their nuclear weapons in order to contribute to the world wide disarmament the IAEA wants to achieve
Click here to watch the interview of Baradei with Charlie Rose
And of-course, after all these reasons,the Der SPIEGEL (in an article written on 8 December 2005, 49/2005 Edition, page 78) was astounded when the US officials congratulated ElBaradei for winning the Nobel peace prize. Where it was written:” Phone calls also came from senior US staff - quite surprising considering that the Bush Administration had made every effort to push the IAEA Chief out of office because of his resistance to the Iraq war. And even had his phone bugged by the CIA, as the Washington Post revealed in December 2004”
The article also speaks about Colin Powell's attempt to find an excuse to war on Iraq saying:” In his (Colin Powell's) speech to the Security Council on 5 February 2003 he mentioned as evidence of Saddam Hussein´s nuclear programme the attempted import of aluminium tubes, even though ElBaradei´s UN inspectors had determined that they were not suitable for making centrifuges for bomb production.”
Also spoke about Condolezza Rice's stance towards the inspectors saying:” she(Condoleezza Rice) severely criticized the weapons inspectors and sounded off about threats of nuclear mushroom clouds that Saddam could unleash - one of the justifications for the invasion of Iraq that has long been refuted, like so many others.”
Click here to read the Article.
And to answer your questions that I believe buzz in your head. No,I'm 100% Egyptian and No,I wont vote for ElBaradei if he ran for presidency,I simply didn't make my mind yet,I'll wait to see who will have the best plan for his presidency period. I simply just think someone in his position desereves a little bit more respect from his own people while the rest of the world is celebrating and admiring him.
Further links about Elbaradei:
Click here for wikipedia
Click here for press conference on 9 February,2003
Click here for another press conference on 19 December,2002
Click here to watch Elbaradei's video recieving Indira Ghandi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development
Elbradie is not a patriot, he is a media whore that will sacrifice any and everything to satisfy his very sick ego. he behaves as if he has a mandate from the egyptian masses when he really has none.
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