http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=146929LONDON – Zimbabwe's maverick president, Robert Mugabe, has struck a secret deal to trade its untapped uranium reserves for oil from Iran, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
Sir John Sawyers, the head of MI6, whose agents uncovered the deal, described it to Prime Minister Gordon Brown as "the rogue elephant in the bush joins up with the mad dog in the desert."
More certain is that colorful description will heighten fear in London and Washington that the deal will allow Iran to speed up its program to develop a nuclear bomb.
Metallurgists have advised MI6 that Zimbabwe has an estimated 450,000 tons of uranium ore. It can be converted into the basic fuel for nuclear power or enriched to make a nuclear bomb.
"While we cannot be precise about the full tonnage of Zimbabwe's uranium reserves, on the figures we have been given the Iranian extraction plants could produce some 20,000 tons of extractable uranium to use to make a bomb well before the present target date. That is set at five years. We believe it could now be well before that," said a senior intelligence source in London.
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