mark aitken - strikeforce lightning (extract)

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STRIKEFORCE

LIGHTNING

MARK AITKEN


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S/1998/694 27 July 1998

7. . . . some ncertaint is inevitabe in an contr-wide technica verifcation process

that aims to prove the absence o readi conceaabe objects, sch as components o

centrige machines or copies o weapon-reated docmentation, or activities sch assma-scae enrichment or weaponization experimentation or compter-based stdies.

Ths, athogh IAEA has assembed a technica coherent pictre o Iraqs candestine

ncear programme, there is an inherent ncertaint in the competeness o that pictre

deriving rom the possibe existence o dpicate aciities or the possibe existence o

anomaos activities or aciities otside the technica coherent pictre . . .

LETTER FROM UN SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN TO THEPRESIDENT OF THE SECURITY COUNCIL


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Prologue

Baghdad, 2003

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mark aitken - strikeforce lightning (extract)

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