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To: Pegita; Cindy
Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall. (Psalm 55:22)
11,222 posted on 01/16/2004 7:06:59 PM PST by WestCoastGal ("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1042403/posts

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Vice President Cheney warned this week that "the major threat" facing the nation is the possibility that terrorists could detonate a biological or nuclear weapon in a U.S. city. Cheney told commentator Armstrong Williams that the war on terrorism is "going to go on for a long time" and that U.S. soil remains vulnerable to al Qaeda, the network behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The vice president said one of his biggest worries is "the possibility of that group of terrorists acquiring deadlier weapons to use against us -- a biological weapon of some kind, or even a nuclear weapon." "To contemplate the possibility of them unleashing that kind of capability -- of that kind of weapon, if you will, in the midst of one of our cities -- that's a scary proposition," he said. "It's one of the most important problems we face today, because I think that is the major threat."


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This scenario just keeps coming up. With all the people out on New Years using sniffing devices to detect nuclear material I just wonder how real is this threat? A dirty bomb depending on it's size could make a city uninhabitable for years. I just read another report that it would be cheaper to level a city and rebuild rather than clean it up after one of these attacks.
11,226 posted on 01/16/2004 7:17:52 PM PST by WestCoastGal ("Hire paranoids, they may have a high false alarm rate, but they discover all the plots" Rumsfeld)
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and Amen.
11,442 posted on 01/16/2004 11:54:48 PM PST by Cindy
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