Undertoad,
The aluminum tubes fell under the bounds of dual use items and were not automatically illegal. I had not seen any articles where El Baradei rescinded his reservations about the aluminum tubes. Do you have a link?
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When Iraq itself claimed it was using those tubes for reverse engineering rockets, he thought that was plausible.
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They were not reverse engineering rockets, they were making rockets. They required massive modifications in order to be used in a gas centrifuge.
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hen it turned out the specifications for the tubes was higher than that the US specifies for its own rockets
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The specifications of the tubes was part of the reason why the U.N. though the Iraqi explanation was the more likely usage of the tubes. The tubes were too thin and not reinforced to a sufficent degree to be used for a gas centrifuge. They would have required additional mateiral and milling capabilities that Iraq did not have in order to modify them fir ilicit use.
If you have some proof, I will change my position, but barring thatm I will still maintain my position vis-a-vis the tubes.