Wasu Amurkawa sun ji labarin New York Times marubuci kuma marubuci James Risen da kin fallasa wata majiya. Amma, saboda yawancin rahotanni kan wannan al'amari cikin tsanaki sun guje wa batun abin da ya tashi ya ruwaito, mutane kaɗan ne za su iya gaya muku. A gaskiya ma, Risen ya ruwaito (a cikin littafi, kamar yadda New York Times ya yi biyayya ga buƙatun gwamnati na yin shiru) cewa a cikin shekara ta 2000 CIA ta ba wa Iran shirin makaman nukiliya. An shigar da kura-kurai a cikin tsare-tsaren, tare da bayyana aniyar ragewa shirin nukiliyar Iran din idan har akwai. Rahoton Risen na cewa kurakuran sun fito fili, gami da tsohon-Rasha kadarar da aka ware don isar da tsare-tsare ga Iran, ya sa shirin ya yi muni fiye da yadda aka yi sautin farko.
Jeffery Sterling, wani jami'in CIA mai kula da tsohuwar kadarorin Rasha, an yanke masa hukunci a farkon wannan shekara da kasancewa tushen Risen. An yanke masa hukuncin ne bisa wasu dalilai masu ma'ana da aka sani da "meta-data" wanda NSA ya ce bai kamata mu damu da shi ba, amma wanda wata kotun daukaka kara a ranar Alhamis ta yanke hukuncin tarin tarin abubuwan da ba su dace ba. A yau litinin ne ake sa ran za a yanke wa Sterling hukuncin zaman gidan yari mai tsawo.
A lokacin gwajin Sterling, CIA da kanta ta ba da labari mafi girma fiye da wanda ta lika wa Sterling. CIA ta bayyana, ba tare da niyya ba, ba shakka, cewa bayan da aka yi watsi da shirye-shiryen makaman nukiliya ga Iraniyawa, CIA ta ba da shawarar irin wannan kadarorin cewa zai kusanci gwamnatin Iraki don wannan manufa. CIA ta bayyana hakan ta hanyar shigar da shaida wannan kebul:
Mista S., wanda kuma aka fi sani da Bob S., shi ne kuma jami'in CIA. M takaice ne ga Merlin wanda shine lambar don tsohon Rasha da kuma sunan aikin (Operation Merlin). Kebul ɗin yana nufin ƙarin bazuwar faɗaɗa aikin zuwa wani wuri banda Iran. Sunan wannan wurin yana farawa da wasali, domin yana bin labarin “AN” marar iyaka.
Duba a hankali ga rubutun na USB. Haruffa suna layi a cikin ginshiƙai na tsaye da kuma layuka na kwance. Grid ne. Kalmar da ta ɓace akan layi na bakwai ta fara da wasali kuma tana da haruffa biyar. Zai iya zama IRAQI ko OMANI.
Ci gaba da karatu. Kalmar da ta ɓace akan layi na goma tana da haruffa huɗu. IRAQ ne ko OMAN.
Ana ci gaba da tattaunawa game da wurin taro, wanda mai yiwuwa ba a cikin Iraki (ko Oman).
Karanta zuwa layi na ƙarshe. A can kalmar da ta ɓace tana da haruffa shida. Yana iya zama IRAQI ko OMANIS.
Hujjojin zaɓen Iraqi a kan Oman a matsayin hari na biyu na Operation Merlin sun fi abin da aka yi amfani da su wajen hukunta Jeffrey Sterling na sanar da jama'a manufa ta farko. Ba a taba zargin Oman a bainar jama'a da samun ko aiwatar da shirin makaman nukiliya ba. Ba a taba sanin cewa Oman ta kasance makarkashiyar harin sojan Amurka ba. Iraki a cikin 2000 ta kasance makasudin yunkurin juyin mulki da CIA da dama. Makamin Iraki ya kasance babban abin da CIA ta mayar da hankali akai. A cikin shekaru biyu, CIA za ta yi amfani da da'awar game da makamin Iraqi don tallafawa harin Amurka a kan Iraki wanda zai zo a cikin Maris 2003.
A shekarar 2002-2003 da Shugaba George W. Bush na lokacin da kuma mai ba da shawara kan harkokin tsaro Condoleezza Rice suka yi iƙirarin cewa bindigar shan taba na iya fitowa daga Iraki a cikin nau'i na girgije na naman kaza yana ɗaukar wani haske na daban lokacin da muka fahimci cewa wani ɗan gajeren lokaci kafin lokacin. CIA ta ba da shawarar baiwa Iraki shirin makaman nukiliya a wani bangare na shirin da Condoleezza Rice da kanta ta shawo kan lamarin. New York Lokutan da ba a bayyana ba.
A cikin 1995, surukin Saddam Hussein Hussein Kamel ya sanar da jami'an leken asirin Amurka da na Burtaniya cewa "an lalata dukkan makamai - kwayoyin halitta, sinadarai, makami mai linzami, nukiliya." Duk da haka, a ranar 2 ga Oktoba, 2002, Shugaba Bush ya ce, "Gwamnatin tana da masana kimiyya da kayan aiki don kera makaman nukiliya, kuma tana neman kayan da ake bukata don yin haka." Wannan ikirari ne kuma zai sanya a cikin wasika zuwa Majalisa da kuma a cikin 2003 State of the Union Address.
Mataimakin shugaban kasa Dick Cheney ya yi nisa har zuwa da'awar, a ranar 16 ga Maris, 2003, akan Saduwa da Latsa, "Kuma mun yi imanin cewa, a gaskiya ma, ya sake gina makaman nukiliya."
Babu wata shaida a kan haka, ba shakka, kuma an yi riya a hankali, ciki har da takardun jabu da ke nuna cewa Iraki na kokarin sayen uranium, da kuma wani bincike da ba daidai ba na bututun aluminum wanda ya kamata a binciko su a hankali bayan duk kwararrun da aka saba. ya ki bada amsar da ake so.
"Mun san cewa an yi jigilar kaya da ke tafiya . . . zuwa Iraki. . . na bututun aluminium waɗanda suka dace kawai - kayan aikin aluminum masu inganci [sic] waɗanda suka dace da shirye-shiryen makaman nukiliya, shirye-shiryen centrifuge, ”in ji Condoleezza Rice akan CNN's Late Edition tare da Wolf Blitzer a kan Satumba 8, 2002.
Lokacin da masana a Ma'aikatar Makamashi, Jiha, da Tsaro suka ki cewa bututun aluminum a Iraki na makaman nukiliya ne, saboda sun san ba za su iya zama ba kuma sun kasance kusan makamin roka, wasu ma'aurata a filin Sojan kasa. Cibiyar Intelligence kusa da Charlottesville, Va., sun yi farin cikin tilastawa. Sunan su George Norris da Robert Campus, kuma sun sami "kyaututtuka" (tsabar kuɗi) don hidimar. Sannan sakataren harkokin wajen Amurka Colin Powell ya yi amfani da ikirarin Norris da Campus a jawabinsa na Majalisar Dinkin Duniya duk da gargadin da ma'aikatansa suka yi cewa ba gaskiya ba ne.
Gwamnatin Amurka ba ta taba yin irin wannan yunkurin na nuna karya a Oman a matsayin neman makaman nukiliya ba.
Shin CIA ta bi ta Merlin kuma ta ba da wani abu ga gwamnatin Iraki? Shin ta samar da shirye-shiryen makaman nukiliya kamar yadda Iran ta yi? Shin ta samar da sassan makaman nukiliya, kamar yadda aka yi wa Iran tun asali amma ba a bi su ba?
Ba mu sani ba. Amma mun san cewa CIA ta ci gaba da biyan "Merlin" da matarsa don wasu ayyuka. Kamar yadda Marcy Wheeler ya nuna, "gaba ɗaya, CIA ta biya Merlins kusan $ 413,223.67 a cikin shekaru 7 bayan James Risen ya lalata amfanin Merlin a matsayin kadara." Don duk abin da muka sani, mu masu biyan haraji har yanzu muna ba da tallafin gidan Merlin.
