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To: BurbankKarl

There's a lot of stupid and/or just plain evil people in this world.


2,250 posted on 01/11/2005 11:28:46 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Cindy
There's a lot of stupid and/or just plain evil people in this world.

Amen!

2,301 posted on 01/12/2005 12:59:06 PM PST by MamaDearest
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FYI

FINDING HIDDEN NUKES

BY JIM WILSON

At precisely 0100 GMT on Sept. 22, 1979, an American satellite recorded an image that made intelligence analysts' blood run cold. Looking down over the Indian Ocean, sensors aboard a Vela satellite were momentarily overwhelmed by two closely spaced flashes of light. There was only one known explanation for this bizarre phenomenon. Someone had detonated a nuclear explosion.
The list of suspects quickly narrowed to the only two countries at the time that had the materials, expertise and motivation to build a nuclear weapon: South Africa and Israel. Both denied responsibility. After that the Vela Flash, as the occurrence came to be known, left the spotlight until, 14 years later, an alleged witness came forward with a possible solution.

His name was Dieter Gerhardt, and he was formerly a commodore in the South African navy. When the Vela Flash occurred, he was commander of the Simonstown Naval Base near Cape Town. In a February 1994 interview with Des Blow of the Johannesburg City Press, Gerhardt said the distinctive double flash was produced by Operation Phenix, an Israeli-South African nuclear test.



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2,406 posted on 01/12/2005 11:18:12 PM PST by DAVEY CROCKETT (Character exalts Liberty and Freedom, Righteous exalts a Nation.)
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