As it is a magazine article, it must be suspect.
However, if official government sources made the same statement, it would be a different matter. Like:
the WMDs and pilotless delivery aircraft of Saddam's,
the Iraqi tanks drawn up on the Saudi border just before Gulf War 1, the babies-torn-from-incubators in Kuwait,
the Soviet submarine base, military airfield and warehouse-full of military weapons in Grenada.
Oh- and didn't the Iraqis also have lots of centrifuges??
One can always trust government statements.