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Iraq 'will have nuclear bomb in months'
drudge report | today | By Katty Kay in Washington, Paul Martin and Melissa Kite

Posted on 09/15/2002 6:56:20 PM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant

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To: TheDon
After 9-11, waking up to a nuke going off in New York, or DC, doesn't seem so farfetched

We are target # 1, because we have the most Jews after Israel.

21 posted on 09/15/2002 10:49:40 PM PDT by Concentrate
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To: redsoxallthewayintwothousand2
Hi Sox man..

This Dr Hamza has a unique gift of story telling..
In August he meets with Congress to tell them that Saddam has 10 tonnes of Unranium..and 1 tonne of slightly enriched uranium...this = 3 bombs by year 2005.
Now a few months later the story changes..and Saddam is stream lining nukes at a skill level more advanced in time line than Israel.....ya right Hamza[Sarcasm]

Hamza is exploiting his personal failure in iraqs nuclear programs..he makes statements that don't jive with other intel from other supposed technical escapee's from Iraq...but he is right over them,cuz he was more senior..or something like that.

Get this lucid comment...Hamza blames Israel for bombing the osirik reactor..says this helped Saddam get out from under the Non Proliferation Treaty.
Osirik was bombed in 1981..at that time Saddam had spent mmmillions on something...and had nothing.
Then Hanza becomes Iraq's nuclear advisor in 1985...
Then in 1987,he becomes head of the nuclear program.
After 87 Iraqi scientists are flocking back to Iraq from abroad..and Saddam is terrorizing them..watching their families..treating them like hostages..sob..sob.
Glowing statements from Hamza like..."The program started out as patriotic...but then turned into forced confinement"

No folks...Hamza's a screw up...and Saddam was certainly looking to kill him for producing nothing in 7 years.
Hamza says they were all waiting around for Saddam to decide what type of bomb and missile delivery system he wanted....ya right Hamza...Saddam hasn't the brains to talk to Pakistan...no not once.

No Hamza's a screwup would fled for his life..and now spins yarns to the media.
If anyone has a good idea of what is going on in Iraq nuclear wise it will be Israel>
U.S. admin has the real details allready...both countries have agents in Iraq and other intel sources.
Some Iraqi scientists say Saddam has allready detonated nukes in an undergound mountain facility..after which Saddam filled the entire opening with concrete and landscaped it so that we dummies would never know.
Oh well..if you got some beer to drink..and have spare time..there's allways Hamza..but choosing to watch NFL would be a wiser course.

22 posted on 09/15/2002 11:48:55 PM PDT by Light Speed
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To: redsoxallthewayintwothousand2
I keep wondering if the Demoncrats and other single-celled life forms which are "Counseling Restraint" in this matter have ever considered what their future is going to be like if Hussein does succeed in producing nuclear weapons while they are obstructing our efforts to whack the sonofabitch...

Do they really think they're going to be able to "Spin" that one in the aftermath of a nuclear detonation over one of our troop concentrations - even with the help of Rather, Jennings, Brokaw, and every grinning leftist info-babe that the leftist media can muster?

23 posted on 09/15/2002 11:49:22 PM PDT by fire_eye
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To: redsoxallthewayintwothousand2
Has anybody succeeded in making a nuke with low-tech means, without a testing program? We should be leery of Iraq but where are their test blasts? Dirty bombs are another story. I think they'd try to dirty-bomb NYC or Washington long before they could field a homemade nuke (which without testing would almost certainly fizzle).
24 posted on 09/16/2002 12:36:59 AM PDT by drlevy88
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To: drlevy88
You test it in the field.... if it works.. well... bad news.

If it doesn't work - critically - then you have your dirty weapon. Still bad news.

Either way, for a mad man, it's a win win situation... at least until the retaliation in kind. Well, not in kind per se. Our nukes are tried and tested. They work and the yields are, no doubt, an order of magnitutde greater than Soddom's.

25 posted on 09/16/2002 12:56:10 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: AFreeBird
A dirty bomb is not the same thing as a nuclear bomb that fizzles. A dirty bomb is a conventional explosives bomb that scatters radioactive material over a wide area. A fizzled nuke would more likely leave a puddle of radioactive material. Not that this wouldn't pose its own problems in, say, Manhattan.
26 posted on 09/16/2002 1:28:08 AM PDT by drlevy88
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To: Grampa Dave
LOL! of Course! I forgot about CNN. Why waste a phone call to Kofing Anonymous! I withdraw my agenda, Sir! Dubya, its HAVOC Time!
27 posted on 09/16/2002 1:37:32 AM PDT by sleavelessinseattle
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To: Concentrate
We are target # 1, because we have the most Jews after Israel.

Therefore, if the Jews here would move someplace else, we wouldn't have as much of a problem, right?

28 posted on 09/16/2002 2:04:31 AM PDT by rdb3
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To: Light Speed
Some Iraqi scientists say Saddam has allready detonated nukes in an undergound mountain facility..after which Saddam filled the entire opening with concrete and landscaped it so that we dummies would never know.

This is not possible. There are earthquake monitors all over the world that would detect the characteristic spike of an underground nuclear detonation and place it in Iraq.

The network is pretty sophisticated: it detects the ammonium nitrate explosions in the open pit coal mines out West. They had to develop a signal processing algorithm to identify them and separate them from the ones they were looking for.

29 posted on 09/16/2002 5:32:53 AM PDT by justlurking
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To: redsoxallthewayintwothousand2
This is why we to destroyed these scumbags!
30 posted on 09/16/2002 5:56:19 AM PDT by adam stevens
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To: rdb3
Therefore, if the Jews here would move someplace else, we wouldn't have as much of a problem, right?

No, not at all. Many of my closest and dearest friends are Jewish.

31 posted on 09/16/2002 8:42:45 AM PDT by Concentrate
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To: Lady In Blue
Snuff Saddam, Now !!

Death To all Tyrant's !!

The Second Amendment...
America's Original Homeland Security !!

Molon Labe !!

32 posted on 09/16/2002 8:47:07 AM PDT by blackie
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To: TheDon
After 9-11, waking up to a nuke going off in New York, or DC, doesn't seem so farfetched.

Or New Orleans, Miami, L.A., San Diego, Portland, OR, Seattle, San Francisco... Nothing farfetched about it at all. Tel Aviv is probably more likely though. Here we're more likely to see bridges, oil refineries, chem plants, trains carrying nasty chem's etc., etc. go boom.

33 posted on 09/16/2002 9:40:25 AM PDT by TigersEye
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To: justlurking
About the time i looked into Hamza's story..several other "Saddam has...we were there" stories appeared.
From tabloid to Euro publication..one wonders how much money these story tellers scooped.
But either way..I guess they are just trying to survive in their $....y little worlds.
As you comment concerning detection...for sure Israel would have reacted if Saddam tested...In the 1980's,Israel could aquire the engine signature from Syrian jets taking off...determine if a Mig 25 Foxbat or a Mig 23 Flogger had sortied.
34 posted on 09/16/2002 9:40:52 AM PDT by Light Speed
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To: drlevy88
A dirty bomb is not the same thing as a nuclear bomb that fizzles

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A fizzled nuke would more likely leave a puddle of radioactive material.

Or it would blow itself apart before the chain reaction really got going, which would in effect be a dirty bomb, but probably one somewhat worse than one built with radioactive waste and conventional explosives.

35 posted on 09/16/2002 9:47:47 AM PDT by El Gato
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To: Dog; Miss Marple
In a matter of months? Isn't that about how long it will take to gear up for weapons inspectors he has "agreed" to allow back in? How transparent.....
36 posted on 09/16/2002 4:21:10 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun
Yep......and the UN just helped him......stabbed us in the back...

I don't have a good feeling about this...

37 posted on 09/16/2002 4:23:32 PM PDT by Dog
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To: drlevy88
A fizzled nuke would more likely leave a puddle

This makes sense. The conventional explosives are arranged to compress the nuke core enough to start the chain reaction. Even a large nuke would have only a couple hundred pounds of explosives in it, and wouldn't be much more destructive than an ordinary [what an age we live in] car bomb.

38 posted on 09/16/2002 4:33:54 PM PDT by RightWhale
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To: Concentrate
bttt. The truth comes out.
39 posted on 11/20/2002 10:42:30 PM PST by Concentrate
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
So then, he must have one by now?
40 posted on 03/08/2003 10:54:07 PM PST by BlessingInDisguise
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