Posted on 09/04/2005 3:05:03 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
Where do you get those?
I didn't remember this, ovrtaxt and just scanned it. What am I missing?
There are companies online who sell them. At least, they did in 2001 when I bought them. They prevent thyroid cancer from radiation overexposure. Apparently, they pack the gland with inert material so that it won't absorb radiactive material from the surrounding environment. (going from memory there, and I'm no doctor...)
OK, so Khan proliferated to Al Q'aeda.
Who proliferated to him?
IOW, what are the chances we're looking at the pointy end of a "borrowed knife" strategy, another point of which is called Kim Jong Il?
A secret knife in the back?
Oh, maybe I was speaking to myself. I've been so preoccupied with AD and Katrina that reading this was like getting a bucket of cold water dumped on me.
LOL. I'll look through it again; it was sort of chilling to remember when...
Don't know the formula, I suppose "it's out there".
So, the intel community, law enforcement and the military are completely incompetent and can't do anything right while Al Queda has outsmarted and outmanuevered us at every turn. Wow, who would of thought?
I seem to remember an old speech that nobody ever talks about that included the list: Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.
The more I think about it, the more I realize what a poison pill the Clintons fed us during the Chinagate period. This war is much larger than AlQueda. We have problems with just about the entire world- with a few exceptions. The partnership between Communism and Islam becomes more apparent every day.
Weren't these same guys telling us two months ago that San Francisco, Chicago, and Las Vegas were about to be nuked. I picture an oldtime religious fanatic in sackcloth and ashes carrying around a sign "The World Will End on..." and various days of the week taped on one over the other.
Well, they don't have lawyers and bureaucrats.
Who has the advantage there?
September 11 is a week away; fortunately, it's a Sunday (nobody at work). I can hear Osama now, "No, 9/11 won't work for me this year -- I can't kill enough people if it's on a Sunday. What have you got later on?"
Black humor, but the only kind available on this thread. Wow, this is just nasty stuff to think about.
Setting off a 15kT weapon in Times Square would cause MUCH less destruction and MANY fewer problems than Hurricane Katrina.
Gen. Eugene Habiger, former Executive Chief of Strategic Weapons at the Pentagon, said that an event of nuclear mega-terrorism on U. S. soil is "not a matter of if, but when." During the 2004 presidential debates, President Bush and Sen. Kerry said that nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists represent the greatest danger facing the American people, while Vice President Cheney, on the campaign trail, warned that a nuclear attack by al-Qaida appears imminent. Before leaving office, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge both voiced that belief that al-Qaida's plan to nuke cities throughout the country soon might come to fruition.
I won't debate that. But what about several on the same day? That's AQ's tactic. Embassy bombings (2), airplanes (4), London railway (3?).
I have read that the USSR was missing as many as 80 suitcase
nukes.
Kooks with nukes. Not good no matter how many there are.
If 1) Bill Clinton were really a Chinese agent and 2) Al Q'aeda is a borrowed Chinese knife, it all comes together. Slick sandbagging the fight against OBL long enough to give Bin Laden a solid start in a secure environment (Afghanistan) replete with access to a determined proliferator (Khan) -- who also may have been compromised by the Chinese (spies are busy people) or Al Q'aeda or both -- and the result is disaster for America, and China is standing off to the side, seemingly innocent, while nukes pop off in our cities left and right, wrecking our economy just at the moment China's ready to step up and claim a really big place in the sun. What could be more convenient? Talk about great timing. Think the Chinese Politburo can play at that level?
Weasel words; did he make some kook statement that the FBI asked him about just to cover its butt?
...I have a unique background. I hold a Ph.D. in philosophy from Drew University and I am a seasoned and award-winning journalist.
According to the Drew University website:
M.A./Ph.D.: Areas of study include: English Literature, Liturgical Studies, Modern History & Literature, Women's Studies (M.A. only, Ph.D. concentration), Biblical Studies, Religion & Society, Theological & Religious Studies and Wesleyan & Methodist Studies.
I have to wonder how any of these subjects would qualify someone to talk about terrorism.
This all sounds like Art Bell stuff; I suspect if AQ had a bomb in the US they'd detonate it. To just keep it here would be to risk its capture.
The suitcase nukes are TINY. Plus, of course, their is no chance that a bunch of savages who live in caves and wear their diapers on their heads have maintained them in working condition.
A coordinated nuclear attack using modern weapons and modern delivery systems could do a lot of damage to the US.
Setting off a so-called "dirty bomb", or a bunch of 1-2kT "suitcase bombs", would just piss us off.
I find it odd that none of our detection agencies or equipment works, our law enforcement doesn't work, our intel community doesn't work, our military doesn't work all at the same time. The CIA and all these other pundits know that there are nukes in the US, know who has the nukes, what kind of nukes, where the nukes came from, how they got into the US but don't know where the nukes are. Maybe if the article was sprinkled with a little American competence it might be more believable.
I don't see one, really. What I do see is an unequal relationship in which OBL gets his hands on enormously powerful weapons precisely because he's irresponsible enough to use them -- because the proliferator authority wants him to use them.
If there's a relationship there, I think it's an unequal relationship primarily between the Chinese and a few Paki players, whom they're directing to steer deniable (from China's POV) technology to OBL, who's happy to accept it no questions asked.
Then there are the venal proliferators both big and small, they come in for their share. But it appears the genie's about to get out of the bottle, leaving us to comtemplate an age in which humanity may wind up being ruled unaccountably by invisible, cave-dwelling, two-legged rats armed with nukes. Homo sapiens ratus gargoylensis.
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