[BITList] stuxnet working?

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?looks effective
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Iran temporarily halted enrichment in mid-Nov: IAEA


By Fredrik Dahl and Sylvia Westall

VIENNA | Tue Nov 23, 2010 6:21pm EST 

(Reuters) - Iran temporarily halted most of its uranium enrichment work earlier this month, a U.N. nuclear watchdog report said, an unusual move which Western diplomats said they believed was linked to technical problems.

The confidential report, obtained by Reuters, did not say why or for how long Iran stopped feeding material into all centrifuge machines used to refine uranium to a low level.

But it also said Iran's uranium stockpile had continued to grow and that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) remained concerned about possible activity in Iran to develop a nuclear payload for a missile.

Security experts have said the release of the Stuxnet computer virus could have been a state-backed attack, possibly by Israel or another enemy of Iran, aimed at sabotaging the Islamic Republic's nuclear enrichment programme.

"Was the Stuxnet worm responsible for these disruptions or were they caused by some other event or problem?" said the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security in an analysis.
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