US officials displayed equipment yesterday which they claimed was meant for making nuclear weapons in Libya, and said its surrender by Muammar Gadafy this year was partly due to the Iraq invasion.About a dozen two-metre metal pipes, described by American officials as casings for uranium enrichment centrifuges, were shown at an American nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in a PR exercise aimed at showing US success in combating nuclear proliferation. The pipes, wrapped with spirals of narrow metal tubes, were propped up among wooden crates in a white marquee set up in a car park at the nuclear facility, known as Y-12, for inspection by journalists.Full Story