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Scrap it. The messengers being wrong does not make the message wrong _______________ Surajit Dasgupta _______________ G uess who is lying! On 8 August 2008, the IAEA uploads this statement on its website : “ Note to editors: The text of the draft Agreement is not public . IAEA Officials will not be giving interviews at this time.” That very night two blogs upload a portable document format file of the India-specific safeguard agreement along with the Additional Protocol, as agreed by the Government of India. Guess who is lying! Now the Government of India admits that this country's draft safeguards agreement with the IAEA was initialled on July 7 and moved to the Board of Governors for its approval on July 8 "soon after the Left parties said they did not wish to have the meeting scheduled for July 10," says National Security Adviser MK Narayanan. This national 'insecurity' adviser needs immediate treatment for his foot-in-the-mouth disease. As if his embarrassin

[ Click on the headline for the "agreement between the Government of India and the IAEA for the application of safeguards to civilian nuclear facilities (including the ‘Additional Protocol’)" ] Every party to the dispute has been economical with the truth about the civil nuclear cooperation deal between the two countries since July 2005 _______________ Surajit Dasgupta _______________ H ow much nuclear fuel will India get to use for civilian purposes if the 123 Agreement (ref: Appendix I) materialises? And by what per cent will India’s use of nuclear energy for civilian purposes increase if the deal is ‘operationalised’ (an English-sounding word coined by the country’s communists)? 5%? 7%? Shady Congress : For the last three years, the advocates of the deal have been making it appear like 50% or 70%. The zeal of the Congress-led UPA is all too comprehensible to merit an explanation. But since the journalists arguing in favour of the deal are seasoned enough, they must have so