Posted on 09/30/2004 8:52:57 PM PDT by Madstrider
During the debate, Kerry said: "There are some 600-plus tons of unsecured material still in the former Soviet Union and Russia. At the rate that the president is currently securing that, it will take 13 years to get it.
"I did a lot of work on this. I wrote a book about it several years ago, maybe six or seven years ago, called, 'The New War,' which saw the difficulties of this international criminal network. And 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."
Is this a real "suitcase nuke" incident? Anybody ever heard of this?
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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"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
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.
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."
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!
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.
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.
Found the thread about another Freeper that reviewed Kerry's book
"The New War" by John Kerry (Freeper Book Review)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1173313/posts
That is the e-mail I was looking for earlier. Looks as if his troops followed his orders.
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
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?
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."
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