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Latest neo-con "Big Lie": Congo's Shinkolobwe
mine, which has not produced yellowcake uranium since 1961, is selling the refined
uranium ore to Iran via a clandestine jungle network worthy of a Frederick Forsythe
novel.
The neo-cons are re-using their Iraq War playbook. In this case it
is Iran, not Iraq, supposedly purchasing uranium from Africa, not from Niger,
but from Congo.
On Aug. 6, 2006, Rupert Murdoch's main British mouthpiece, The Sunday Times,
reported that "Iran is seeking to import large consignments of uranium
from Africa." It was a similar utterance, contained in a bogus 16-word
claim by George W. Bush in his 2003 State of the Union address that was used,
in part, to justify America's and Britain's disastrous invasion and occupation
of Iraq. Now, the same canard is being used to justify a U.S. attack on Iran.
The Sunday Times chief source for its story was an unnamed Tanzanian customs
official who claimed that Tanzanian customs intercepted in October 2005 an air
shipment of uranium from near Lubumbashi in Congo's Katanga to Mwanza in Tanzania.
The alleged uranium shipments from Congo to Iran were said to have started in
2002 and consisted of several alleged shipments. The alleged source of the uranium,
the Shinkolobwe mine in Katanga, was also the source for the uranium used in
the U.S, atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The only problem with the Sunday Times story is that the Shinkolobwe mine is
no longer in operation. "The Congo mine has been closed for decades,"
according to a very knowledgeable U.S. government who has dealt extensively
with African uranium production. Congo's government claims the ore concentrator
for Shinkolobwe has been shut down since 1961 and, therefore, cannot be concentrated
into refined yellowcake uranium.
Resource-rich Congo, which is just emerging from a genocidal civil war encouraged
by U.S., British, and Israeli elements using their surrogates in Rwanda, Uganda,
and eastern Congo, is a lucrative target for the Bush administration and its criminal
accomplices. Conveniently for the neo-cons, the story about Congolese uranium
shipments to Iran is said to have involved trans-shipment points in Sudan and
Syria and middlemen in Lebanon, all three countries targets of the Project for
the New American Century operatives in Washington, London, and Jerusalem/Tel Aviv.
Currently, the CIA, under the regime of General Michael Hayden, is cooking the
intelligence to prove the Congolese-Tanzanian-Sudanese-Syrian-Iranian uranium
smuggling connections. Just for good measure, the neo-cons are suggesting that
Zimbabwe, a major target of the Bush administration, and Zambia, were also involved
in the alleged elaborate uranium smuggling scheme. President George W. Bush is
reported to have ordered Hayden and National Intelligence Director John Negroponte
to do everything possible to prove a uranium connection between Iran and Congo.
Africa, which is rife with false "official looking" documents, such
as those Nigerien documents laundered through the Silvio Berlusconi-Italian
Fascist-Michael Ledeen network to "prove" that Saddam Hussein was
trying to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger, is a favorite pace for the neo-cons
to cook up phony intelligence and false flags. Some of the phony intelligence
being used to prove a Congolese-Iranian uranium link is originating with political
enemies of President Joseph Kabila, who is the reported winner of the recent
UN-supervised presidential election. His two major opponents, both U.S. and
Israeli-backed guerrilla leaders, are the likely sources of the bogus uranium
stories. Belgian intelligence, which has extensive sources in Kinshasa and throughout
Congo, have scoffed at the reports of the alleged uranium sales. They have evaluated
the uranium reports with a confidence level of "not serious," according
to the Belgian magazine Trends. The Belgian magazine also reports that an official
of the American embassy in Kinshasa visited the Shinkolobwe mine on August 9
and "found nothing irregular." The International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) in Vienna has also derided the notion of Congolese uranium sales to Iran.
Trends also discovered some proof that official Congolese Gécamines
(the Congolese state mining company) uranium sales records from 1966 to 1968
were tampered with to make it look like there were recent sales of uranium from
Katanga to Iran. The magazine states, "The serial numbers of the uranium
shipments referred to in the exchange of letters between Wieland GmbH [of Germany]
and Saman Cheshemen [mining company] of Iran, could possibly been taken from
official uranium sales by the Congolese state-owned company Gécamines
of existing reserves from 1966 and 1968 from Shinkolobwe. Have those previous
serial numbers been used to give this smuggling operation an appearance of truthfulness?
The incredible amount of 2 billion dollars is explained by some as forming part
of a money laundering operation." As every user of e-mail is aware, Africa
is the source for all kinds of money laundering schemes and frauds. It would
seem that the neo-cons are the only people in the world not aware of these schemes
but are, nevertheless, trying to convince professional intelligence agencies
that the money laundering operations and phony intelligence reports are clues
in proving a "Congo sells uranium to Iran" scheme.
A U.S. intelligence source told WMR two months ago that the Kabila government
would be implicated by the neo-cons in a false uranium smuggling operation with
Iran in an effort to justify both an attack on Iran and a military overthrow
of Kabila by pro-U.S./Israeli elements in Congo. Kabila has been the target
of several attempted coups staged in neighboring countries by mercenaries in
the pay of U.S. and British intelligence. It now appears that the forecast of
a phony Congolese link to uranium sales, which also mentioned Tanzanian involvement,
was correct. It is also very apparent that the neo-cons are becoming incredibly
predictable in their machinations. As with Niger and the bogus yellowcake sales
to Iraq, we now have forged Congolese documents, phony news stories emanating
from the always-suspect Murdoch News Corp. falsehood factory, and intelligence
agencies calling the bluff of the neo-cons.
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