Oh that’s classic. Remember Mahdi Obeidi? 
The nuclear scientist who dug up the centrifuge parts from his backyard and turned them over to the CIA?
Great guy, did the right thing, came clean, straight-shooter, never liked Saddam, didn’t want the hardware to fall into the wrong hands.
A real mensch, as my people would say.
Only one problem: he says the aluminum tubes were for artillery rockets, not centrifuges.
Oops.
This from Thursday’s Post …
The sources said Obeidi also disputed evidence cited by the administration — namely Iraq’s purchase of aluminum tubes that various officials said were for a new centrifuge program to enrich uranium for nuclear bombs. Obeidi said the tubes were for rockets, as Iraq had said before the war.
CIA analysts do not believe he has told the whole truth, said one Bush administration official. Obeidi has left Iraq under CIA auspices after being arrested briefly by U.S. Army troops.
I think I’d like to hear directly from the analysts on this one.
