KERRY: "We intercepted a suitcase ... with nuclear materials in it" (???)

vanity | Sept. 30, 2001 | self

[danamco]

That must be the nuclear facilities in Baghdad that we "left unguarded"

And he got all that truthful (not faked) information from cBS' Dan Blather!!!

[Southack]

"back then, we intercepted a suitcase in a Middle Eastern country with nuclear materials in it, and the black market sale price was about $250 million. Now, there are terrorists trying to get their hands on that stuff today."

He's talking about the 1995 German interception in Munich of enriched ex-Soviet Uranium that was being sold to Saddam Hussein in Iraq...hardly an example that would make anyone think that going to war against Iraq was the wrong thing to do after they kicked out the UN weapons inspectors.

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[Chad Fairbanks]

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[dano1]

Could it be this?

"The international market in nuclear material is not, however, fed only by former Soviet states; other nuclear weapons states, as well as the 27 states with nuclear research and power facilities, have materials at risk of becoming part of the illicit trade. In 1998 police in Italy intercepted HEU that was stolen from a research reactor in the Congo. In 2001 Colombian police seized HEU originating from an unknown location."

Source: http://www.ploughshares.ca/CONTENT/MONITOR/mond01b.html

[blogbat]

It usually takes a day or so for the substance to get out. I'm sure it would have been a different experience by radio.

[Mo1]

I'm not real sure .. but in his book he says the folks that stole uranium kept them in lockers

on page 115 of his book

How real is that danger of leakage? In the former Soviet Union, many facilities containing nuclear materials were not kept under especially heavy guard. A chain link fence and a sign stating that entry was strictly prohibited were more then enough to warn off any Soviet citizen with an ounce of sense. Recent reports indicate that uranium is being stored in the sort of lockers used by students in American high schools. In Murmansk, a Russian naval officer crawl through a hole in the chain link fence surrounding a submarine fuel facility, broke into a locker. and hacked off a ten pound hunk of enriched uranium, which he hid in his garage. He was caught only when he attempted to find a buyer. Though the scenarios about the nuclear terrorism have the aura of click thrillers about them, the reality will be considerably humbler, more prosaic.

[junaid]

The New War is a gold mine!

p.118: "In fact, the greater danger emains the illicit sale of nuclear materials and expertise to outlaw states like North Korea and, especially, Iraq, which has any number of perceived enemies and real grievances."

[mugs99]

Is this a real "suitcase nuke" incident? Anybody ever heard of this?

I remember ...It was big news for awhile. The red mercury scare. Turned out some Russian guy conned the arabs out of a ton of money selling them "red mercury" to use for making a bomb. I don't know if they really use red mercury for making nukes, but the stuff he sold them wasn't bomb making material. They got busted, and the guy who sold it to them disappeared with the money.
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[Auntie Dem]

He's talking about the 1995 German interception in Munich of enriched ex-Soviet Uranium that was being sold to Saddam Hussein in Iraq...hardly an example that would make anyone think that going to war against Iraq was the wrong thing to do after they kicked out the UN weapons inspectors.

I think what sKerry really meant was he found a suitcase with an old Bulova watch in it. The numbers had dots of radium on them to make them glow in the dark. I've got one just like it. I'd let it go for something less than $250 Million though.

And about Iraq getting nuke material, we all know from his book that every other country was trying to get the stuff for illicit purposes, but not Iraq!

[Mo1]

did ya see page 34 where he talks about George Soros??


"Robber capitalism," George Soros, one of our ear's most successful capitalists, calls it, a period not unlike the hurly-burly twenty years after our own Civil War when colossal fortunes were amassed in a business climate free of regulation.

[kittymyrib]

This was the most disturbing thing he said. Giving Iran nuclear fuel is insane! And the Dem talking heads are gleeful that Pres. Bush looked tired and that made him unlikable! No doubt he WAS tired and digusted by having to miss his bedtime for this foolish exercise tonight. I think the polls will show that the voters understood perfectly how he felt being attacked all night by Lurch.

[Prime Choice]

You all need to read some of Bill Gertz' books

Thanks for the recommendation. Now would you say that Gertz's book supports or denies Kerry's assertion that we intercepted a "nuclear suitcase bomb" circa 1997?

Considering the shoddy intelligence and lack of coherent anti-terrorism policy during Clinton's years, I'm currently disinclined to believe what Kerry's peddling.

[Mo1]

Found the thread about another Freeper that reviewed Kerry's book


"The New War" by John Kerry (Freeper Book Review)
vanity | 7/17/04 | votelife

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1173313/posts

[Irish Eyes]

That is the e-mail I was looking for earlier. Looks as if his troops followed his orders.

[wvromania]

Bush wasn't tired......ole saying here in WV and i'm sure TX also,,,,playing possum.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1232228/posts

[spotbust1]

Can anyone clear up what he was talking about when he said that the Cargo holds were not x-rayed? How does one go about that anyway?

[Arizona Carolyn]

If I remember that chapter in Betrayal accurately, Kerry's correct... there is so much in that book that was totally mindblowing inasmuch as the MSM totally protected the public from everything going on during the 90's that when I get the book back I want to read it again. The book was written in 1999, which is interesting in light in what we know today and the last chapter explains a lot about why Scott Ritter is so bitter today. I buy most of those books on Amazon under the used section (where there is usually brand new or almost brand new available cheap)... I plan on reading Gertz' most recent book, too, as soon as the price comes down... he is definitely "conected."

[nw_arizona_granny]

ping

[Calpernia]

This needs REPEATING

My question is, how many licks DOES it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll pop. Or in English, how many felonies need to be committed before someone pays for it?

[Calpernia]

And a separate bump for emphasis