ABSTRACT
A prominent Iraqi scientist, Mahdi Obeidi, after American troops raided his home, showed CNN where he had been told at least ten years ago by the government to bury centrifuge materials that could be used sometime in the future to build nuclear weapons and to reconstitute a nuclear program. But American officials are confused even by the idea that Saddam Hussein could have been putting one over on them in his ferocious attempt to keep foreign invaders out by advertising horrendous weapons he would use. Sand trenches crossed and crisscrossed one another; enormous sand walls, so wide at the top that tanks rumbled up and down them, were everywhere; and behind these strange, primitive defenses, the Iraqis had released water from dams and waterways, flooding specific territories, thus prohibiting enemy movements. Different voices, all informed but confused, set the stage for new speculation on Saddam Hussein’s mysterious machinations.
