Thursday, June 26, 2003; Page A14
"A former Iraqi nuclear scientist has given U.S. intelligence officials a new lead in their search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction: a trove of blueprints and parts he says were buried 12 years ago for use in the event that Saddam Hussein resumed his quest for a nuclear bomb, a nuclear research group and Bush administration officials said yesterday."Mahdi Obeidi, who headed Iraq's uranium enrichment program in the late 1980s and early 1990s, turned over the documents to U.S. officials in Baghdad voluntarily and is now assisting the investigation of Iraq's former weapons program, according to officials of the Institute for Science and International Security, a nonprofit research group that advised the scientist in his decision to surrender the materials to the U.S. government."
