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Al-Qaida 'bought uranium' in Congo
Aljazeera ^
| 11/13/2003
| Aljazeera.net
Posted on 11/14/2003 8:54:23 AM PST by joyful1
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To: joyful1
Ahhhhh....it wasn't NIGER....it was the Congo....now I get it.
To: Ditto
I think the story is bunk too. Maybe the terrorists bought some anyway thinking they had the good stuff. They wouldn't be that stupid would they?
To: TexKat; backhoe; MizSterious
Yellow cake? LOL.
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posted on
11/14/2003 9:25:09 AM PST
by
Howlin
To: joyful1
According to Le Progres, the Egyptian was able to acquire two bars of enriched uranium 138.Whoever wrote this report, doesn't know anything about chemistry. Natural Uranium is 99.28% U238 and 0.71% U235. There is no such thing as U138. Weapons grade Uranium is made by increasing the percentage of U235. Taken from my Introduction to Nuclear Engineering by Raymond L. Murray (Second Edition) text book.
Depleted Uranium is almost 100% U238.
Good Hunting... from Varmint Al
To: joyful1
Riyadh Blames Al-Jazeera and Qatar For Bombings TURKEY, November 14, 2003 - A leading newspaper in Saudi Arabia, Al-Riyadh has accused the Al Jazeera television station for promoting violence in its broadcasts.
In the paper's editorial today, it was stated that instability in the Kingdom was not beneficial to Qatar and that the small country's bullyish attitude towards a big state was ironic.
The two countries have been on bad terms since Riyadh recalled its ambassador from Doha in September 2002.
Decorated soldier returns to Iraq with 'job to do'
No one was killed in the attack. Walden sustained injuries to his knees, ankles and elbows and was transported by Medivac helicopter to a local hospital. While recuperating in the hospital, he was approached by a U.S. military officer in search of a photo opportunity. Obligingly, Walden posed with the officer from his hospital bed. After the snapshot, the officer instructed 34-year-old to call home and tell his family "its not true." At the time, Walden said he had no idea why the officer made such a strange request. It was only later that he found out Arab TV station Al Jazeera had reported Walden and his Bradley members dead. Today, alive and well, he carries a copy of the news report with him, along with the Purple Heart he earned to remind him of that Independence Day.
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posted on
11/14/2003 9:37:41 AM PST
by
TexKat
To: Howlin
Good morning Howlin. See my post #25.
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posted on
11/14/2003 9:38:50 AM PST
by
TexKat
To: joyful1
This would not be an issue for us to be worried about if we just did one simple thing: Stop letting people from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, or any other Islamic nation onto North American soil. Problem solved.
To: TexKat
Interesting. I know Al-Jazeera is based in Qatar, but isn't it (the station) financed almost entirely with Saudi money?
To: Ditto
Bottom line. This story is bunk. Exactly. Both isotopes have low specific activity. Plenty of people worked at the Hanford Reservation, etc. and are just fine.
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posted on
11/14/2003 10:22:56 AM PST
by
Gorzaloon
(Contents may have settled during shipping, but this tagline contains the stated product weight.)
To: aristotleman
I keep wondering about that guy who allegedly stole medical waste from a University in Canada.
To: jerseygirl
Exactly. Even a low-yield dirty bomb would be enough to cause panic. Why would they go about trying to acquire enriched uranium, useless to them, and very exposing? Theft of medical waste, and Saddam's cache waste seems more likely.
To: Billthedrill
It's probably not just poor reporting. It's poorly executed propaganda. The techincal errors you have pointed out might not be noticed by ignorant Arabs but anyone with even cursory knowledge of nuclear technology can see right through them.
To: Sabertooth; Angelus Errare; Coop
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posted on
11/14/2003 11:03:22 AM PST
by
Dog
To: Dog; All
That would make him a member of al-Qaeda's South Asia bureau working for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Tawfiq Attash Khallad. Dawood Ibrahim, a former Bombay criminal czar, was the main driver for those bombings along with Islamist elements of the Pakistani ISI (which is why Mr. Ibrahim has now been tagged as a "global terrorist" by the US).
Those bombings killed ~200 people, though it would certainly be interesting to know why Ibrahim Abdul was doing in Germany. My guess would be that if this was him that he was in league with Ramzi Binalshibh and Abu Dahdah in the planning of the 9/11 attacks.
Also, as for the veracity of the source, AFP is also reporting this on the wires:
http://iafrica.com/news/worldnews/285521.htm
To: joyful1
enriched uranium 138. There ain't no such animal.
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posted on
11/14/2003 12:55:24 PM PST
by
6ppc
To: joyful1
Anything is possible in Africa. The World should't let Africans have adult toys. They just use them for destructive purposes.
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posted on
11/14/2003 12:58:20 PM PST
by
ampat
To: joyful1; Ditto
Al Jazeera (quoting a French newspaper) sez: "
An al-Qaida representative bought enriched uranium capable of being used in a so-called dirty bomb..."
Al Jazeera quoting a French newspaper??? LOL, the only thing "enriched" is the Bravo Sierra in this story.
As Ditto pointed out in his #10, enriched or otherwise, uranium is not nearly "dirty" enough for a dirty bomb and second, the Congo does not have the ability to enrich uranium.
But perhaps more telling as to the fraud in this story, if al-Qaida had access to enriched uranium, why in hell would they bother building a "dirty bomb", when they could use the enriched uranium to build a real atomic bomb???? Duh!
The only thing that could make this report less credible would be for Debka to run with the story.
--Boot Hill
To: joyful1
Another problem that GW has to face from something done on X42's watch.
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posted on
11/14/2003 1:02:17 PM PST
by
PISANO
(No one cares about the filabuster of judges or the rape of our constitution)
To: joyful1
The dirty bomb will create only the casualties that a normal! bomb would. But it will create a cleanup cost and shut down an area to residence and commerce for a period of time. Vast numbers will not die. Possibly vast numbers will be inconvenienced. The Federal Gov't--taxpayers--will reimburse for economic losses. The real terror may be the outrageous claims submitted to the Feds. Alqaida gets a well-earned raspberry on this one.
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posted on
11/14/2003 1:04:18 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Close your tag lines)
To: joyful1
Obviously we must send Joseph Wilson to sip tea and inquire if this is true.
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