Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4811-1023886435-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 12 Jun 2002 05:55:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 15212 invoked by uid 510); 12 Jun 2002 12:54:09 -0000 Received: from n24.grp.scd.yahoo.com (66.218.66.80) by all.net with SMTP; 12 Jun 2002 12:54:09 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4811-1023886435-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.67.196] by n24.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 12 Jun 2002 12:53:55 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 12 Jun 2002 12:53:55 -0000 Received: (qmail 35823 invoked from network); 12 Jun 2002 12:53:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.216) by m3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 12 Jun 2002 12:53:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.152) by mta1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 12 Jun 2002 12:53:55 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g5CCrxl30408 for iwar@onelist.com; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 05:53:59 -0700 Message-Id: <200206121253.g5CCrxl30408@red.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 05:53:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [iwar] [fc:'Sum.of.all.fears':.The.nonfiction.version] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=DIFFERENT_REPLY_TO version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: Geostrategy-Direct June 18, 2002 NUKES ON THE BLACK MARKET 'Sum of all fears': The nonfiction version The new film "Sum of all fears" is based on the Tom Clancy novel in which a neo-Nazi organization buys a newly-uncovered nuclear weapon that had been lost when an Israeli jet carrying it was shot down over Syria in 1973. A similar subtext underlies the ongoing dispute between Iran and Russia over Teheran's nuclear program. Officials said the dispute is now focused on a Russian assertion that Iran has already obtained nuclear weapons. Iran, which has ordered an $800 million nuclear reactor from Russia, has publicly denied the claim. Western diplomatic sources said the argument between Moscow and Teheran highlights a long-standing issue over whether Iran actually acquired nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s. The sources said the CIA and other Western intelligence agencies had been trying to determine whether and how many Soviet-designed atomic bombs were obtained by Iran through such sources as Kazakhstan and North Korea. In the early 1990s, a senior Russian military official confided to retired U.S. officials at a private conference in Washington, D.C. that tactical nuclear weapons were missing and presumed stolen from a former Soviet bloc state. A CIA official was present at the discussion but did not realize at the time what he had heard. On June 10, Iran's Foreign Ministry rejected the assertion by Russian Deputy Chief of Staff Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky that Teheran has acquired nuclear weapons. Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi said the general was misinformed and that Teheran has developed a civilian rather than a military nuclear program. "The Russian general had not been aware of Iran's peaceful use of nuclear activities when he made the remarks," Asefi was quoted by the official Islamic Republic News Agency as saying. Diplomatic sources said Iran had first pressed Baluyevsky to deny or withdraw his assertion on Iranian nuclear weapons. When that failed, Teheran issued a denial. Street-smart real estate secrets for Geostrategy-Direct subscribers On May 24, Baluyevsky told a news briefing in Moscow that Iran has obtained nuclear weapons. But he made it clear that these weapons were tactical and were not supplied by Russia. "Now, as to whether or not Iran has tested something like that. Iran does have nuclear weapons," Baluyevsky said. "Of course, these are non-strategic nuclear weapons. I mean these are not ICBMs [intercontinental ballistic missiles] with a range of more than 5,500 kilometers and more. But as a military man, I see no danger of aggression against Russia by Iran." The Iranian-Russian dispute was the second in as many months regarding Teheran's nuclear program. Last month, diplomatic sources reported that Iran had rejected a Russian proposal for more intrusive International Atomic Energy Agency inspections at the Bushehr nuclear reactor, expected to be completed in 2005. Iran is said to have accelerated its efforts to obtain both nuclear and missile components. Diplomatic sources said Iranian agents are completing deals in Eastern Europe in such countries as Belarus and the Ukraine for equipment to test missile systems. The Iranian-Russian dispute comes amid increased U.S. pressure on Moscow to halt aid to Teheran's missile and weapons of mass destruction programs. On June 10, Undersecretary of State John Bolton told an American Jewish organization that U.S.-Russian ties are linked to a halt in the transfer of Russian WMD technology to Iran. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Will You Find True Love? Will You Meet the One? Free Love Reading by phone! http://us.click.yahoo.com/Deo18C/zDLEAA/Ey.GAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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