180 pounds of nuclear material missing in Canada

These days it would be foolish to not have some water and food rat holed.
We still have some from y2k that wont expire for another decade.
But if a whole neighborhood or city is hungry or thirsty bullets may prove more valuable.
OR Faith...a tank full of gas might prove useful.
Fear is never the answer, nor is denial.
I pray the Good Lord and our Soliders continue to protect us from these demonic murderers.

there are only detectors at fixed border crossings: roads, bridges, etc. crossing from canada into the US by boat across the lakes would not trip any of those. it would have to be picked up by satellite. i can't imagine that placing it in a lined container would be that hard.

That's it, I am staying off of cargo planes from now on!

http://nucnews.net/nucnews/2003nn/0304nn/030402nn.htm

Although El Shukrijumah does not have a pilot's license listed with the Federal Aviation Administration, authorities are concerned that he may be a trained pilot. Documents retrieved overseas linked one of his aliases to a flight school in Norman, Okla., where terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui also received flight training.

I wouldn't want to flame you, I hit the link to check it out, hoping this was more paranoia, but the word of someone called 'Mamdouh Shoukri' doesn't reassure me very much.

I think the dude is from India.

You're probably right. I would like to think we have satellites tracking radioactive material, but I can't verify this. If we don't, I suggest NASA develop one. But then again, it would have a hard time passing Senate as Dems would attempt to block funding.

FBI.gov - War On Terrorism: "SEEKING INFORMATION" (Read More...)

FBI.gov: "MOST WANTED TERRORISTS" (Read More...)

INSIGHT On The News online: "EVIDENCE POINTS TO DIRTY-BOMB PLOT" by Scott L. Wheeler (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "El Shukrijumah has eluded capture. But Insight in field interviews has obtained evidence that he was spotted several times last year on the campus of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Now, subsequent to Insight's field investigation, news reports are saying that "an FBI source" has confirmed El Shukrijumah's presence. McMaster University is the site of a 5,000-watt research reactor, as well as the university hospital that routinely generates nuclear waste. It is alleged that some of that waste has gone missing, but McMaster has refused to confirm or deny that report to this magazine. Insight already had interviewed a confidential informant who tipped off the FBI about El Shukrijuma.") (October 29, 2003) (Read More...)

WASHINGTON TIMES.com: "AL QAEDA PURSUED A 'DIRTY BOMB'" by Bill Gertz (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Adnan El Shukrijumah is being sought by the FBI and CIA in connection with a plot to detonate a dirty bomb -- a conventional explosive laced with radioactive material.") (October 17, 2003) (Read More...)

FBI.gov - Seeking Information: "ADNAN G. EL SHUKRIJUMAH" (View Photos;Read More...)

LINKS OF INTEREST (UPDATED DAILY.) (CLICK HERE)

MEMRI.org - MIDDLE EAST MEDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE Special Alert No.12: "AL-QA'IDA WEBSITE ISSUES RAMADAN WARNING OF IMMINENT ATTACKS: CALLS ON MUSLIMS IN DC, NY, AND LA TO LEAVE THOSE CITIES" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A communique issued by the previously unknown "Islamic Bayan Movement" warns Muslims that they should leave Washington DC, New York, and Los Angeles. The warning initially appeared on the website of Global Islamic Media, at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalislamicmedia/message/173. The same website has, in recent months, published many communiques by Jihad groups around the world, as well as Islamic ideological material. The communique has since appeared on the Al-Qa'ida affiliated website Al-Faroq.") (November 4, 2003) (Read More...)

MENS NEWS DAILY.com: "Source Tells Reporter 'We have everything ready and set' AL QAEDA THREATEN NEW YORK, WASHINGTON AND LOS ANGELES" by Jeremy Reynalds (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "A similar message was received by this reporter when under the guise of being a Molsem sympathetic to the cause he wrote to Almojahid that he wanted to help. "I have funds to buy what you need to kill the kaffir. I need bank account, wiring instructions and location..." The response received from Almojahid by this reporter read , "We are more than thankful for the sweet words you wrote, but we have everything ready and set thank you so much and please make your plans to move out if you are in the cities of LA, NY or the east side. Go north as much as possible as you know this is a war. May God protect you and protect all our brothers and sisters."") (November 3, 2003) (Read More...)

groups.yahoo.com - DALEEL_AL-MOJAHID Message No.18: "this is the last call for muslims in newyork,the east side, and LA to start leaving. the mojahideen are now ready to teach the US a lesson it will never forget inshalaah. alaaaaaaah akbaaaaaar. daleel_almojahid" -Posted by "daleel_almojahid" (November 3, 2003)

YAHOO! - Group: "Daleel_Al-Mojahid"

groups.yahoo.com: "DALEEL_AL-MOJAHID - Links"

WorldNetDaily.com: "AL-QAIDA TRAINING MANUAL SHOWS SEAPORTS TOP TARGET" (October 30, 2003)

An Interesting Discussion on FREEREPUBLIC.com regarding this topic: "MANSOOR IJAZ ON GRETA VAN SUESTEREN - AL QAEDA PLANNING ON HIJACKING SUPER TANKERS!" (October 10, 2003) (Read More...)

ICCWBO.org: "THE WEEKLY PIRACY REPORT"

stepping back in time...CDNN.com: "US SEAPORTS WARNED TO BEWARE OF TERRORIST DIVERS" -Powered by CDNN - CYBER DIVER News Network by Greg Hardesty (August 31, 2003) (Read More...)

SEATTLE TIMES.com (AP): "HOMELAND SECURITY MAKES $77 MILLION AVAILABLE TO PACIFIC NORTHWEST" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge announced the grants today. A total of $32.7 million will be made available to Oregon, while Washington will be eligible for as much as $44.3 million in grants, Ridge said.") (November 3, 2003) (Read More...)

FOX NEWS.com (AP): "E-MAIL WARNS OF AL QAEDA RAMADAN ATTACKS" (October 31, 2003) (Read More...)

GOOGLE Search Term: "al-Ablaj" (Read More...)

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE - Public Announcement: "WORLDWIDE CAUTION" (September 26, 2003) (Read More...)

Cindy says, "Gotta tip? Contact the FBI at http://www.fbi.gov, Homeland Security, http://www.dhs.gov, or Rewards For Justice at http://www.rewardsforjustice.net. See something suspicious? Pick up the phone and call 9-1-1 NOW! Thank you."

"PS: my own advice is that you should never eat Mexican food north of the Red River (unless it's an absolute emergency)."

Nor chili. Nor barbecue.

You can still get a good chicken-fried steak as far north as Fairview, Oklahoma, though.

Maybe I should be embarrassed, but I have actually zero idea what that may be a reference to.

Wow. Then, I wanna work where you work! It's the deal you have to let employees go through for psycho-therapy, marriage counseling, drug or alcohol treatment, etc., before you can fire them or INSTEAD of firing them.

I think the dude is from India.

Yipes, He's from Egypt.

Registered nuclear shipments are tracked by satellite. Of course, so are regular shipments of non nuclear material and rental cars (so you can be charged extra for crossing state lines.) All other cars will be soon.

Still, 180lbs of nuclear material may need more than 180lbs of shielding.

Authorities also are investigating El Shukrijumah's possible ties to Imran
Mandhai, a Florida college student convicted in a bombing conspiracy, and
convicted "shoe-bomber" Richard C. Reid.

See my post 47.

It looks like a Hindi-ized Islamic name to me, but I am not an expert on such things. Mamdouh = Mohammed

Wow. Then, I wanna work where you work!

well, thats nice but...a...um..er..I'm kind of unemployed

"If any nuclear explosions occur in the U.S. as a result of this, I vote for returning some of our nuclear material on Riyadh, Meccah, and Medina:"

Let's go to the real source of the problem... Quebec.

You may or may not know the answer to my question: what are those smoke lines at the left of the picture? I always wondered what they were since I first saw those blasts as a kid.

Smoke trails. They fired missiles right before the blast to make them so they could see how they moved to calibrate the shock wave models.

Some day I'm going to learn to read ahead to see if the question has already been answered. But not today.

I appreciate your post. Based on reading this over, this fuss is centered around one or two unverified emails. Furthur, the U.S. Gov't, which is monitoring communications world-wide, has not raised the threat-assessment over this. In fact, it has been raised for things less in this nature. I think if they were trully concerned, the threat assessment would be raised one or two fold by now. Again, I think this is centered around Al Quaeda types hawking and squawking about the fact that they are readily losing power throughout the world, and will soon be diminished.