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SMOKING GUN URANIUM-GERMANY WHILE Ritter Stokes Islamic Hate
AP ^ | 9/29/02

Posted on 09/28/2002 2:12:10 PM PDT by Diogenesis

SMOKING GUN LINKS URANIUM to GERMANY WHILE IRAQ's PR Ritter Stokes Islamic Hate.

This is a MUST-SEE.

======== Turkey ===========

In Turkey, captured weapons-grade urainum ~33 pounds.
Detained two men from an east European country, cost ~5 million dollars


========== London =====

Meanwhile in London, Scott Ritter, former American, inflames one hundred thousand.




TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: germany; iraq; islam; london; ritter; ritterisatraitor; ritteriswrong; saddamritter; schroeder; uranium
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To: 11B3
but as a former Marine officer, I'm afraid that you [Scott Ritter] deserve to be tried for TREASON.

No doubt about it. If it can be proven that Ritter has been paid off to lie to the American public about Iraq's WMD program, he should suffer the suitable penalty for treason -- death.

281 posted on 09/28/2002 10:05:06 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: bonesmccoy
This is from THE MAN BEHIND BIN LADEN New Yorker posted here:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/756739/posts

As a man of science, Zawahiri was interested in the use of biological and chemical warfare. In a memo from April of 1999, he observed that "the destructive power of these weapons is no less than that of nuclear weapons," and proposed that Islamic Jihad conduct research into biological and chemical agents. "Despite their extreme danger, we only became aware of them when the enemy drew our attention to them by repeatedly expressing concern that they can be produced simply," he noted. He pored over medical journals to research the subject, and he met with an Egyptian scientist in Afghanistan, Medhat Mursi al-Sayed, whose Jihad name was Abu Khabab. C.I.A. officials believe that Khabab prepared the explosives for the bomb that hit the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad. Khabab supervised elementary tests of nerve gas; satellite photos purportedly show corpses of dogs scattered about one of the camps near Tora Bora, and Al Qaeda training videos recently acquired by CNN show that poison gas had been tested on dogs. "We knew from hundreds of different sources that Al Qaeda was interested in biological and chemical weapons," says Richard A. Clarke, who was the Clinton Administration's national coördinator for counterterrorism in the National Security Council and is now in charge of cybersecurity for the N.S.C. Clarke told me that in one of the camps human volunteers, wearing protective clothing, were exposed to chemicals in tests similar to ones that the U.S. Army has conducted. During the invasion of Afghanistan, American forces discovered a factory under construction, near Kandahar, that intelligence officials say was to be used for the production of anthrax. A sample of anthrax powder was reportedly found in Zawahiri's house in Afghanistan. According to reports from Israel and Russia, bin Laden paid Chechen mobsters millions of dollars in cash and heroin to obtain radiological "suitcase" bombs left over from the Soviets. He declared in November, 2001, "We have chemical and nuclear weapons," and vowed to use them "if America used them against us."

282 posted on 09/28/2002 10:10:38 PM PDT by woofie
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To: anapikoros
Woww! That's an awesome website. Someone did a great job collecting commentaries and gov't statements!
283 posted on 09/28/2002 10:10:53 PM PDT by bonesmccoy
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To: woofie
Do you think this will be big news on the talk shows tommorrow?

I was just wondering the same thing, and I'll be tuning in to Tony Snow tomorrow to find out (at 7:00AM PST).

284 posted on 09/28/2002 10:11:45 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Travis McGee
I got one or two votes via private email for biotoxin containers... and several suggestions that we are looking at mercury switches used for explosive devices. I lean that way.

Which is what they look like to me... I see what looks like conductive filaments set in the ends which appear to be ceramic... but it could just be the picture.

I think biotox balls are more symmetrical in their shapes, so that aerisolizaton is more controlled by charge shaping in a warhead... but its just a guess... they could use square tubes for all I know.

there is definitely something inside that performs a function in the device and what looks to be leads on the end... and they have a half dozen or more of them in the background.

I am rather confident they are not the new high-tech high-gas mileage spark plug designs from champion....
285 posted on 09/28/2002 10:12:30 PM PDT by Robert_Paulson2
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To: freepersup

The past guides us in the decisions we make tomorrow....I decide NEVER AGAIN!

286 posted on 09/28/2002 10:13:36 PM PDT by Madcelt
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To: Squantos; Robert_Paulson2
Beats me.
287 posted on 09/28/2002 10:18:19 PM PDT by Travis McGee
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To: woofie
scary...the anthrax issue is pretty confusing. On one hand you have these stories (like the one you cited) and on the other hand you have this page from FAS.ORG

http://www.fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxreport.htm

This fas.org webpage details the facts surrounding the anthrax attack which our nation sustained nearly one year ago. The dates were interesting reading, as well as the facts surrounding some of the threats.

Originally, based on discussion around Free Republic, I had concluded that the anthrax attack could not have been launched by a fellow American citizen. However, many of the scientific clues substantiate the index of suspicion that a person in the US did the attacking.

It's very interesting reading. FAS seems to suggest that the perpetrator was an American. I'm not so convinced because if the anthrax was US in origin, where did he store the stuff? It's not an innocuous amount of stuff to store. FAS does appear to agree that the source was a government financed source, though perhaps not US.

288 posted on 09/28/2002 10:23:30 PM PDT by bonesmccoy
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To: 11B3
You gota wonder about this Ritter guy and why the big change? Did Sadam(the shoeshine boy) get word to him about some nice video tapes made in that hotel room in downtown Bagdad when Ritter was sooo far from home and in need of comfort and companionship?
289 posted on 09/28/2002 10:32:35 PM PDT by Sparticus
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To: Travis McGee
the largest mercury switch, is similar in shape but not nearly as preciscely formed inside as these tube things seized were. I have nothing but guesses at this point.
290 posted on 09/28/2002 10:32:38 PM PDT by Robert_Paulson2
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To: Robert_Paulson2
What was seized look more like biotoxin holders, hermetrically sealed.

Damn the terrorists.

291 posted on 09/28/2002 10:36:17 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: The Person
collapse of the small capillaries because of circulation problems.

I doubt that guy, whoever he is, has any more circulation problems.


292 posted on 09/28/2002 11:40:47 PM PDT by humblegunner
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To: bonesmccoy
Uranium 238 is not the sort that goes off. Uranium 235 is. Weapons grade U means refining U-235 out of the background U-238, which is by far the most common isotope in naturally occurring uranium. The U-235 typically runs 0.5% to 1% of the U content of a uranium ore. It has to be refined to more like 90% of a sample to sustain a chain reaction. U-238 can be used for nuclear fuel in reactors, but it reacts too slowly to be useful for explosions (its half life is on the order of 4 billion years, almost 10 times longer than U-235).

U-238 can be gradually enriched into plutonium in a special "breeder" reactor, absorbing particles emitting by a running reactor (actually, a tiny portion absorbs neutrons and then undergoes beta decay, emitting electrons and turning into plutonium - left running long enough this builds up and can be extracted from the remaining U-238 around it). But in itself it is not useful for bombs.

When the article says "weapons grade uranium", that means a sample of uranium that is around 90% U-235, seperated out of a much larger amount of uranium ore. The seperation process is quite difficult, and is the step the Iraqi's have not managed to solve on a large scale themselves. So U-238 getting to Iraq, while obviously not helpful, doesn't get them a bomb or solve the problem holding them up. Enough U-235 of high enough purity does. Or plutonium.

I hope that helps.

293 posted on 09/28/2002 11:45:33 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: Diogenesis
I'm out on Yahoo message boards with this article and kicking ass with it. The RATS/Arabs are throwing down all kinds of excuses. Way to go Alamo girl !!!
294 posted on 09/28/2002 11:45:48 PM PDT by John Lenin
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To: Mitchell
ping
295 posted on 09/28/2002 11:49:05 PM PDT by Nogbad
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To: Dog
Everything within about half a mile would be gone. Serious casualties out to 2-3 miles. Not an H-bomb size explosion, but somewhat worse than Hiroshima.
296 posted on 09/28/2002 11:53:55 PM PDT by JasonC
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To: Peach
I don't know how sure they are, certainly. But it is not terribly difficult to tell. Not just by looking at it, certainly, but a simple measurement procedure.

U-235 - the component of weapons grade uranium that makes it effective for bombs, by allowing a rapid enough reaction to build up to a chain reaction - is about 10 times as radioactive as U-238. U-235 has a half-life on the order of hundreds of millions of years. U-238 has a half-life on the order of 4 billion years.

So the size of the sample and a measurement of the level of radioactivity combined can tell you roughly how much U-235 there is, compared to U-238. You put in X U-238 and Y U-235, X + Y equals this much material, rate(238) times X plus rate(235) times Y equals this much measured radioactivity, solve your 2 equations for X and Y. Not hard.

297 posted on 09/29/2002 12:00:17 AM PDT by JasonC
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To: Diogenesis
sure don't see any connectors. it does look like ampules.
298 posted on 09/29/2002 12:00:50 AM PDT by ALS
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To: RightWhale
Very likely. Refining it is not simple, and not something the Iraqis can do quickly on their own. It would be nice to know more about the actual quality of the material, but I doubt the journalists types covering the story have any real idea what the terms they are slinging about mean. Several are positively saying "weapons grade", not merely "enriched", which means much higher purity of U-235. They are undoubtedly repeating what the Turkish sources have said. But whether those used the term accurately is up in the air at this point.
299 posted on 09/29/2002 12:18:00 AM PDT by JasonC
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To: Publius Maximus; Diogenesis
BUMP BTTTWHY IS THIS NOT BREAKING NEWS ON CNN, FOXNEWS, ETC???? And why isn't the President breaking in with an announcement about this incident?

You are so on target here Pub. Max.! Diogenesis, I can't believe those pictures are from London. What on earth have they done to that country????
300 posted on 09/29/2002 12:18:38 AM PDT by Libertina
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