[jerseygirl]

I made note of this comment (made today) by someone who posts on "TB2000"- considered a "doomer/survivalist" site. (They are not accepting new members so I've been in lurk status.)Not to cause rumor/undue alarm, is there any way to verify this comment:

(this was posted today in response to latest info. from NEIN)

"RockChucker
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My brother currently lives in DC in the home of one of the lead investigative reporters for the WSJ (it's his brother-in-law).

In that home they have KI pills, gas masks, weapons and ammo and a packed Surburban for bugging out at a moments notice.

Last night I asked him what the people on the "inside" think about the current situation. He said that the people in the know, which would include his contacts in federal law enforcement, believe that Al-Qiada has already planted at least one nuclear device, possible a nuclear bomb, in a US city. He has already moved his wife and children to a family farm in Arkansas. A number of people took their family to Grandma's for christmas break and returned to town without them because of the threat."

I'm assuming he's referring to the Wall Street Journal.


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[swarthyguy]

I find it hard to buy the prepositioned nukes theory.

If they had 'em, they'd use 'em.

What I do believe is that we have stopped ongoing dirty or 'suitcase' nuke bomb attacks...yes, west coast and east.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

JustPiper, oceanview and Sean: what do you think jerseygirl's post? Why do you think such a nuke would not have been set off by now? Assuming that this is true and the Feds believe a nuke may be in place, do you think that there really was a letter full of demands that was sent to the White House, and that this is what al qaeda is waiting for?

[js1138]

... believe that Al-Qiada has already planted at least one nuclear device, possible a nuclear bomb, in a US city...

This of course, can't be disproved. But any nuke or dirty bomb material will be hot to a number of detectors. It would take an impractical amount of lead shielding to prevent detection, and even that would emit secondary radiation. Major cities are continually scoured. People have been pulled over after taking radioactive cocktails for medical diagnosis.

Transporting any large amount of radioactive material is like carrying a lighted flair in the middle of the night.

Some FReeper might recall last year a ship was stopped for carrying glazed floor tiles. Some glaze pigments are mildly radioactive. A Russian plane was quarantined because one of its passengers was apparently undergoing medical treatment.

[relee]

My brother currently lives in DC in the home of one of the lead investigative reporters for the WSJ (it's his brother-in-law).

In that home they have KI pills, gas masks, weapons and ammo and a packed Surburban for bugging out at a moments notice.

Probably not. In DC having weapons and ammo in your home is illegal.

A packed Suburban would get stolen, vandalized or unpacked at a moments notice in DC. Also, it's a PITA to move something that huge on alternate-side street sweeping days.