Posted on 11/09/2007 4:02:45 PM PST by Lexington Green
Those Amish sure do get around don’t they?
Could there be a cash order out to the mercenary community for some fissionable material ?
This story is of major importance if it is even mostly accurate.
I’m sure more will come out later, but there were armed guards at the facility. It remains to be seen what actually took place here. If there weren’t normally armed guards in the area he was in as a rule, I guess it’s a little unfair to fault him for not being armed to visit and accompany his girl friend.
There are questions. I’ll be anxious to see the full story myself. Good point.
This is a 20 MW test reactor. Most power reactors run 650 to 1200 MW, so the core contains very roughly 1/50th the nuclear material of a power reactor. it’s in a pool, a configuration with which I am familiar and have first hand experience, but I am not familiar with a “tank-pool” configuration.
This was a trained team, with a rehearsed plan for entry, a plan that worked.
It is clear the team knew what to expect, which indicates familiarity with the plant, quite possibly inside knowlege, even possibly inside assistance.
This may very well be connected with an succesful assassination attempt.
This trained team got within feet of their objective, the control panel, though we don’t know what their plan was.
First guess, Al Qaeda.
Second guess, enviro-terrorists, like Greenpeace.
Head’s up, people, whatever was attempted here is of grave concern to the entire planet.
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Plans are to transfer 5,000 Mardi Gras surge revelers to Brazil to re-enforce the 20,000 revelers who are keeling over in large numbers.
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lol. I was wondering that too. Funny how threads diverge sometimes. I’m too busy to go back and trace it...
What? Can I get a link to this data?
“Anton Gerber, Necsa emergency services operational officer ...”
So he was also a senior employee at the plant, but offshift. Being an employee, his presence wouldn’t be a security breach. His fiance works nightshift in the control room, well inside what is supposed to be a (electrified fence) secure area. Sounds like he was there more for the “company” part than the “safety” part.
Had he not been there, they might have simply overpowered her without any gunshots. Without gunshots, they might have had the time to force her to create a real problem in the reactor. They may have only run away for fear the security people heard the gunshot and would investigate.
A lot of speculation because the article is pretty thin on facts.
Thank you.
I don’t quite know what to make of this. One wants to jump to conclusions that this was some sort of co-ordinated effort to gain access to possible nuclear materials or plans. But on the other hand, South Africa is a place where police stations get robbed, so it may just purely be a case of robbers rather opportunistically trying to rob the night employees at an out-of-the-way location.
The South African government would want to keep something like this quiet to prevent them from losing the 2010 soccer world cup.
How many people are shot dead in inner cities in America such as Detroit, Baltimore, Washington, D.C. and L.A.
Sounds like the ragheads best bet to get their hands on things subhumans have no business having.
The week after the pull out from Philly
Why are you moving to Brazil?
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Slightly fewer than in Brazil.
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