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Dear All Do not believe what Khidhir Hamza is claiming. Since I got the first message about him being the "father of the Iraqi nuclear bomb" I was almost 90% certain it was a false claim. Today I have checked the authenticity of his claim with a friend of mine who worked with Hamza in Iraq and knew him well. I now know for certain that it is a totally false claim. My fiend is highly trusted and distinguished physicist who now lives in London, UK. The friend tells me that Hamza has never been trained as a nuclear physicist. He was a quantum mechanics theoretician with absolutely NO practical experience required for bomb design. He was only very briefly seconded to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Authority from Baghdad University (Department of Physics) as most other physicists (including my friend) did in the eighties. He returned to his job as lecturer in quantum mechanics and he supervised a number of MS (or MSc) dissertations in this area in addition to teaching. He was a good theoretician but he had nothing to do with developing the "Iraqi bomb". I hope this explain the situation regarding Khidhir Hamza. Regards, Hazim >From: Colin Rowat <cir20@cus.cam.ac.uk> >Reply-To: colinrowat@email.com >To: "'Iraq-CASI - Discussion (E-mail)'" <soc-casi-discuss@lists.cam.ac.uk> >CC: "'iac-discussion@egroups.com'" <iac-discussion@egroups.com> >Subject: Re: Khidhir Hamza online w/ Washington Post today (1PM EST) >Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 15:24:52 +0000 (GMT) > > > The former head of Iraq's nuclear program Khidhir Hamza will be Live >Online > > on Tuesday, Nov. 14 at 1 p.m. (EST) to talk about "Sadaam Hussein's >nuclear > > ambitions". > >Thanks Drew. I've just returned from a few days of meetings in New York. >While there I met with someone from Unmovic, the new weapons inspectors. >We talked, in part, about recent books on Iraq's weapons. He mentioned >that Hamza never ran Iraq's nuclear weapons programmes. > >Hamza's book apparently has a variety of other flaws. Two mentioned to me >(and I relay them without having checked them) include a passage >describing Hamza looking out of his office window in his 22 storey >building in Baghdad (Unmovic knows the building: it's eight stories) and >Hamza driving out of Baghdad and into the hills (there are apparently no >hills near Baghdad). > >The person with whom I spoke therefore wondered whether other facts in the >book had also been altered. He was reasonably sure that some had been >written in by the co- or ghost-author. > >Colin Rowat > >****************************************************** >Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq >http://www.casi.org.uk fax 0870 063 5022 > are you on our announcements list? >****************************************************** > >393 King's College www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~cir20 >Cambridge CB2 1ST tel: +44 (0)7768 056 984 >England fax: +44 (0)8700 634 984 > >-- >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq >For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk >Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: >http://www.casi.org.uk _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a discussion list run by the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq For removal from list, email soc-casi-discuss-request@lists.cam.ac.uk Full details of CASI's various lists can be found on the CASI website: http://www.casi.org.uk