Posted on 10/16/2001 7:23:30 AM PDT by Oldsailor
The image of Osama bin Laden that flickered on Jack Shroder's TV was grainy and brief, but it was all he needed. Jack Shroder, a University of Nebraska at Omaha geologist who has done research in Afghanistan, says a videotape of Osama bin Laden gives important clues to where he might be hiding. "I turned to my wife," Shroder said, "and told her I know where he is." Shroder, a geologist at the University of Nebraska at Omaha who has done research in Afghanistan, said the videotape provides important clues on where bin Laden was when the tape was made. He said he has received a number of calls about the video and any help it can provide in finding bin Laden, the chief suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. Shroder said he could not say whether any of those calls have been from the federal government, saying he has been told not to discuss the inquiries in detail. He did say he is certain that the type of sedimentary rock visible in the videotape is found only in Paktia and Paktika, two provinces in southeastern Afghanistan about 125 miles from Kabul. Shroder also has examined photographs taken from the tape.
If he claims he recognizes a particular kind of rock .. more power to him. He probably can.
But limiting an area to even 100 square MILES (a small 10 mile x 10 mile area geologically!) is way too big a search area for dropping bombs. Limiting it to a single mesa or outcropping could helpful though. Limiting the search region (for ground observers working over an area for weeks) would be helpful.
NO BOMB - even a modest size nuke - is going to be effective more than 1 mile away against underground targets in the mountains. Figure a kill distance of a few hundred feet (even less) for conventional explosives.
Nagasaki, for example, with very small hills and valleys, had "protected" areas only a short distance from the ground zero of an air blast.
Real big nuke? Sure - Bigger damage area. But still not real large compared to a "mountainside" in a far country valley.
Big enough in geological terms. Like measuring the age of civilization in geological time.
We need to find several thousand entrances.
And seal them...
One at a time
Lol ... too true. I do get transformed at times, and maybe I should throw out my underwear and get a bigger waist band ... it has been a while.
Hmmmmm.
OK I'll throw in my few units of Geology.
Present elevation is not necessarily an indicator of past elevation.
I would say more "distant" past rather than "recent" past.
I forgot about the stresses on a straw.
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