Included in the International Atomic Energy Agency report issued Wednesday was the conclusion that Iran now has enough nuclear material to build one nuclear weapon. The report stated that Iran now has about 1390 pounds of low enriched uranium.
Iran agreed in 2003, about the time of the US invasion of neighboring Iraq, to give up its uranium enrichment program, but has continued its pursuit if nuclear material for energy purposes.
Experts say that the most difficult portion of a nuclear weapons program is accumulating enough nuclear material to enrich into a bomb. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has, in the past, called for the destruction of Israel and the extinction of all Jews.
Israel is watching Iranian progress closely.
A senior al-Qaeda leader, wanted for assassinations, bombing and the abduction-murder of a US army sergeant in 2004, has been killed by the US military. Haji Hammadi was killed during a military raid on Nov 11.
"The removal of a cold blooded killer of innocent Iraqis and U.S. service personnel will further degrade the ability of al Qaeda to carry out ... ruthless attacks in Iraq," Perkins said.
Hammadi has been affiliated to al Qaeda in Iraq since its inception, Perkins said. He was wanted for organizing and carrying out attacks and assassinations against U.S. and Iraqi forces, government officials, U.S.-backed neighborhood patrols and Iraqi civilians.
These included the abduction and killing of U.S. army Staff Sergeant Matt Maupin in 2004.
He was also responsible for a suicide bomb attack on a tribal council meeting in Garma on June 26 that killed 20 Iraqis, including Garma's mayor, three U.S. Marines, one of them a battalion commander, and two translators, he said.
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