Posted on 06/22/2004 2:02:30 PM PDT by Smogger
The threat of a terrorist attack using nuclear weapons is "real and imminent", the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog said today.
Mohammed al Baradei, chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said it was a "race against time" to prevent terrorists from obtaining nuclear materials.
His words echo repeated warnings by Tony Blair of the danger posed by an alliance between rogue states and terrorist groups such as al Qaeda.
Mr Baradei raised the spectre of terrorists being able to assemble a "dirty bomb". He said there was a real risk of uranium or plutonium falling into the wrong hands.
"We are actually having a race against time which I don't think we can afford," he told the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace conference in Washington. "The danger is so imminent... so the sooner that we start, the better for everybody involved."
In a separate intervention, US Senator Sam Nunn urged President Bush to raise concerns about the safety of nuclear material in Russia when he next meets President Putin.
Sounds like a threat.
But wait....isn't this what the UN said about Iraq?
UN: Terrorist nuclear threat 'real and imminent'.......
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...but we won't do anything about it! We're the UN!
BTTT
If the president had not dealt with Iraq and these threats were coming in, the leftists would be screaming that the president focused on the wrong country.
As it is, they are screaming we aren't paying enough attention to North Korea and Iran forgetting that Iran doesn't have a fully operational nuclear warhead yet.
The leftists would prefer that we wait until a country has fully functional nuclear warheads aimed at our country. They think this is a way to avoid war altogether, not understanding that some country will use it someday.
Quick -- hire 100,000 more cops and emergency response personnel!
This is a case for "DICK TRACY"
Can't these nitwits get it straight? We'll just have to pass some resolutions and negotiate. That'll stop 'em! I feel safer already...
Hans Blix will soon be on the way!
Uh uh, the risk of terror has been exaggerated. JFKerry.
And yet the liberals still bash the likes of the NYPD and the NYFD for doing their jobs impeccably.
Perhaps we should "NUKE" them first.
If Bush repeats the word "imminent", the press will explode.
If we really expect them to nuke us.. then we certainly should. But we won't. Question is.... if they nuke say Washington.... then what happens? Who pulls the trigger, and where do they aim it? I think these guys can destroy us because we won't lob indiscriminate nukes.
Mohammed al Baradei, you're no Tony Blair and you're definitely no President Bush. Some of us figured out the ties between rogue states and terrorist groups years ago. With Iraq and al Qaeda the shoe fits perfect.
There is no application of nuclear power that would do anything but stimulate terrorism.
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