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Jihad Nasheeds, Yusuf Islam MP3
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NY scrambling to handle nuke strike
Source: NY Post | 10:20:44 PM EST
September 21, 2004 -- If terrorists detonate a nuclear bomb in the city, as many as 1 million people will have to be tested and treated for radiation and officials will confront mass hysteria that could cause as many casualties as the device, experts say.
But more than three years after the 9/11 attacks, the city Health Department only now is creating a plan to deal with a doomsday scenario.
The department says it will award a $150,000 contract later this year — funded by the federal Department of Homeland Security — for a step-by-step blueprint detailing the city's reaction to a nuclear disaster.
The "request for proposals" from experts bidding on the contract says the new protocols will complement current disaster plans, but notes that in the case of mass screenings, there are "no federal or other guidelines to respond to this type of demand."
Elected officials yesterday questioned why it took so long to start planning for a possible nuclear attack.
"I'm concerned with what's presently in place while we await the results of this RFP process," said Councilman Peter Vallone Jr., chairman of the Public Safety Committee. "Apparently, we're not as far along as we thought."
A spokesman for the Health Department said that the city had been planning for nuclear attacks even before Sept. 11, but this is the first effort to coordinate a wide variety of agencies.
The spokesman added that the new program will be "the first of its kind on any level, city, state or federal."
Depending on the magnitude of an attack, officials want to be capable of establishing two screening centers in each borough and testing up to 1 million people within 72 hours.
Once those who are contaminated are identified and quarantined, treatment might range from a simple shower to a battery of vaccinations.
In the case of a dirty bomb, which is a conventional explosive device that scatters radioactive materials, those exposed would have to be tracked for decades.
Panic may be more dangerous than the attack itself, said Graham Allison, a former assistant secretary of defense and the author of "Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe."
A small nuclear bomb carried in a backpack could cause as much devastation as the bomb that virtually destroyed Hiroshima, Japan, at the end of World War II.
"The fact that we're getting around to this three years after 9/11 seems implausible," Allison said.
"But once a nuclear bomb is in your city, there is very little you can do. We need to focus on preventing the attack before it occurs."
http://www.trackingterrorism.com/index.asp?dismode=article&artid=270
Jacque Chirac wants global tax to fight international poverty
The following gives pause to thought about how swiftly they would act in the event of a terrorist event!
Nearly a year after multiple deaths in highrise fire, Chicago revamps fire fighting rules
Genetic changes happening every day to everyday things including our food and our lawns. We evidentally have no clout to stop these applications from becoming implemented.
I am trying to find what watch list he is on and not
having any luck. Any Ideas Cindy or Mama
To Whom It May Concern...if there is a ping list, please add me to it. Thanks
Thanks for the ping!
TPTB in Chicago sound alarmingly like the USPS and their woeful ill-preparedness.
And Chirac makes me want to puke on my impervious lawn. Notice what this global tax will be on: arms sales, both by countries AND POSSIBLY individuals; and some financial transactions. What a jerk.
Sorry, gotta crash now. Will be back tomorrow. G'night all.
JERUSALEM : Israeli police were put on high alert following intelligence reports of a possible suicide attack around Tel Aviv on Israel's Mediterranean coast.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/107834/1/.html
Report: Italy Arrest 10 in Alleged Plot
Tuesday September 21, 2004 9:46 PM
ROME (AP) - Italian and Lebanese authorities have arrested 10 alleged terrorists, thwarting plans to blow up the Italian Embassy in Beirut in a car bomb attack, an Italian news agency and the Defense Ministry in Rome said Tuesday.
Plans for the attack were in an advanced phase, news agency ANSA said. Police also seized about 220 pounds of explosives, ANSA said, citing unspecified Lebanese and Italian sources.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4505195,00.html
This little tip bit is interesting...Lebanese and Syria?
Defense Minister Antonio Martino issued a statement to thank the Italian military intelligence service, SISMI, for the ``brilliant operation carried out in Lebanon.'' It also thanked Lebanese and Syrian secret services for their cooperation
Piper this link is for you...LOL this guy is danagerous. My values do not include killing babies.
Barack Obama, the Senate hopeful who has become a political star after his speech at the Democratic convention, says South Asian Americans and "we share the same values".
"We are in a good position, thanks to the support from the South Asian community," he said adding, "We share the same set of values."
snip...if one of us said this well you know the story...
Obama arrived late at the event, because of a preceding engagement, which provoked Aurora to quip, "You have adhered to Indian Standard Time," to which Obama responded, "We call it coloured people's time!"
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5967_1017917,001600060001.htm
Iran announces nuke tests
Sep 21, 2004, 10:56
Iran announced today that it had started converting raw uranium into the gas needed for enrichment, a process that can be used to make nuclear weapons.
"Tests are going on successfully" to make uranium hexafluoride gas, the feed stock for enrichment, said Iranian Vice President Reza Aghazadeh.
Of the more than 40 tons of raw uranium being mined for conversion, "Some ... has been used," he said.
His comments, outside the general conference of the 137-nation International Atomic Energy Agency was the latest sign that Iran was ignoring demands made on the weekend by the agency's board of governors to suspend all enrichment and related activities and banish international fears the technology could be used to make weapons.
Iran, which insists it needs enrichment to generate power, announced months ago that it had planned to "test" conversion techniques.
Even before today's announcement, the large scale of the project - involving more than 40 tonnes of raw uranium - had heightened concerns that it is preparing for full uranium conversion beyond laboratory testing.
A resolution passed unanimously on Saturday by the agency's governing board demanded for the first time that Iran freeze all work on uranium enrichment and expressed alarm at Iranian planned conversion of the raw uranium.
Suggesting that Iran may have to answer to the UN Security Council if it defied the demands, the resolution said the next board meeting in November would "decide whether or not further steps are appropriate" in ensuring Iran complies.
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_3837.shtml
Iran parades anti-US missiles
Sep 21, 2004, 11:00
Iran showed off its range of ballistic missiles at an annual military parade today, with the rockets draped in banners vowing to "crush America" and "wipe Israel off the map".
An anti-Israel banner was draped on the side of a Shahab-2 missile, while another saying "We will crush America under our feet" was on the side of a trailer carrying the latest Shahab-3 missile.
The parade marks the beginning of "Sacred Defence Week", an event commemorating Iraq's 1980 attack on Iran and the outset of the bloody eight-year war.
"The Shahab-3 missiles, with different ranges, enables us to destroy the most distant targets," said an official commentary accompanying the parade, which was carried live on state television.
"These missiles enable us to destroy the enemy with missile strikes," the commentary said, without giving any specific details on the range of the missiles.
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_3838.shtml
I may outline a scenario of a preemptive strike by Iran. I'll need to do some research first. TM exclusive.
The diplomats were taken to a dam construction site where they saw excavation work. (Think they'd really take them to a nuclear test site or location where a rocket fuel/munitions explosion may have occured) Didn't see anything really to account for all the bruhaha. See my past summaries (accessable at the first part of this thread complements of nwctx). In all, it is a pretty screwed up situation. All the 'evidence' has not panned out, but the North must of been up to something.
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Seattle vulnerable to nuclear terrorism
GRAHAM ALLISON
GUEST COLUMNIST
Seattle was baptized into the era of terrorism in December 1999 when a customs agent became suspicious of a driver disembarking from a ferry at Port Angeles. Her gut reaction proved correct: Ahmed Ressam was smuggling more than 100 pounds of explosives for al-Qaida's millennium plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport.
Seattle moved into the center of the cross hairs when the mastermind of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, put the Northwest's tallest building on his top 10 target list. Later, U.S. forces found photos of the Space Needle in an al-Qaida hideout in Afghanistan.
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Osama bin Laden has challenged the greater al-Qaida movement to trump 9/11. The list of terrorist actions reaching that bar is short. A clue to the preferred method comes from bin Laden: He declared obtaining nuclear weapons "a religious duty."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/191626_nuclear21.html
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SEPT 22, 2004
Fears of nuclear test by North Korea rise
Recent blast creates suspicion that Pyongyang may raise the stakes by holding a nuclear test before the US presidential election on Nov 2
By Joo Sang Min
SEOUL - A mysterious explosion in North Korea's remote north-east has sparked fears that the region could be in for an 'October surprise' before the US presidential election in November.
Although the North said the blast was part of demolition work for a hydroelectric project and even led a group of foreign diplomats to the site to prove its case, the incident has led to suspicions that Pyongyang could raise the stakes next month in a bid to gain more concessions from Washington.
North Korea and the United States are the main protagonists in the long-running nuclear crisis.
Three rounds of six-party talks have yielded no progress and a fourth round is not likely - at least before the Nov 2 ballot in the US.
Fears of a nuclear weapons test by the North first arose after a South Korean opposition lawmaker, who attended the US Republican convention this month, said US officials had told him of a possible North Korean nuclear test next month. (snipped)
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/eyeoneastasia/story/0,4395,273958,00.html
Every time I see a new artical the number goes up. Fist of last week was 20 countries, later in the week it was 30 now we are up to 40. Now just what is everybody going to do distroy earth?
40 nations said to have nuclear arms know-how
AP AP
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
VIENNA
More than 40 countries with peaceful nuclear programs could retool them to make weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday amid new U.S and European demands that Iran give up technology capable of producing such weapons.
Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the UN agency, suggested in a keynote address to its general conference that it was time to tighten world policing of nuclear activities and to stop relying on information volunteered by countries.
Beyond the countries that have acknowledged possessing nuclear arms, "some estimates indicate that 40 countries or more now have the know-how to produce nuclear weapons," ElBaradei said.
http://www.iht.com/articles/539694.htm
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