Posted on 10/08/2004 12:02:23 PM PDT by hinterlander
Like somebody mentioned, there'd be SOME clown at Al-Jazeera to leak it if somebody'd actually seen him.
When Mark Steyn claimed in July 2002that Osama had bin Laden to rest in Tora Bora the previous Brutal Afghan Winter, he said that if OBL was alive, he was hiding in Saudi Arabia. He felt that was the one place the Administration would never look.
Iranian relatives by way of marriage have been telling us this for months.
I heard the author on Rush too yesterday, just ordered the book as a result. That's the thing about this war on terror, it's so much bigger than Iraq or Afghanistan and President Bush has a much broader vision than anyone gives him credit for.
Saddam needed to go for a lot of reasons, not the least of which was his support - financial and propaganda - of terror orgs and acts. But most importantly, in my lay opinion, Iraq is key strategically. Now we have a big new presence in the middle east, all the two-bit terrorists are flocking to it, and we're gearing up for some new targets maybe.
Interesting thread. And interesting posts from you, delta.
In the meantime, Saddam was reportedly given top secret Mini Nuke technology by the Russkies:
Red Mercury - The WMD No One Wants To Talk About
9-29-2004
On Friday, September 24, 2004, British police arrested 4 suspects for allegedly trying to purchase a 'highly powerful, radioactive material, originally made in Russia, known as' Red Mercury'.
These four supposedly were willing to pay $ 541,000 a kilogram, on behalf of a Saudi Arabian, (described as sympathetic to the Muslim cause'), whose name was not disclosed.
"The News of the World said that the material was developed by Soviet scientists during the Cold War for making briefcase nuclear bombs that could kill people within a few city blocks."
Sam Cohen, the physicist who invented the neutron bomb, sheds a little more light on the destructive power of red mercury. As quoted from a June 15, 1997 article by Christopher Ruddy of the Tribune-Review, it states:
'Most frightening for Cohen is the relative ease by which neutron bombs can be created with a substance called red mercury. Red mercury is a compound containing mercury that has undergone irradiation. When exploded, it creates tremendous heat and pressure - the same type needed to trigger a fusion device such as a mini-neutron bomb.
Before, an obstacle to creating a nuclear bomb was the need for plutonium, which when exploded could create a fusion reaction in hydrogen atoms. But red mercury has changed that. The cheap substance has been produced in Russia, Cohen said, and shipped on the black market throughout the world.
Cohen said that when UN inspectors went to Iraq to examine the Iraqi's nuclear weapons capabilities, the U.N. team found documents showing that they had purchased quantities of red mercury. The material means that a neutron bomb can be built "the size of a baseball" but able to kill everyone within several square blocks."
"The Balance of Terror and the Red Mercury Nightmare" states that 'Iraq possesses "s-megaton" micro-nuclear warheads. These are softball sized two-megaton fusion bombs triggered by an irradiated and compressed compound of mercury antimony oxide. This device doubles the nuclear yield with a hundredfold reduction in weight. Using heavy hydrogen instead of uranium or plutonium to fuel its explosive reaction, this handheld nuclear weapon cannot be detected by U.S. sensors.'
Red Mercury.
The CIA says that it does not exist, yet terrorist organizations worldwide are willing to pay outrageous amounts of money to procure it. Scientists have alluded that nuclear weapons containing red mercury, can enter the United States, UNDETECTED, be placed in cities all across the country, and cause cataclysmic destruction from a nuclear bomb, of incredible power, the size of a softball. I don't know about you folks, but this REALLY scares me!
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According to the research that I have done and talking to the contacts that I have in the Intelligence community, red mercury not only destroys human life, but kills every living thing in its path for eternity!!! In other words, where its destructive energy has touched, NOTHING will ever live again, not at least in our lifetime!
Let me go one further, my sources inform me that it would only take a teaspoon of red mercury to kill all living creatures in the Great Lakes.
Weekly Column - Tuesday, March 26, 2002
"The Balance of Terror and the Red Mercury Nightmare"
by J. R. Nyquist
On Thursday, March 21, WorldNetDaily posted an article from STRATFOR, a well-connected private intelligence firm. The title of the article was "Crisis looming between U.S., Russia." STRATFOR's article deals with CIA Director George Tenet's March 19 testimony before the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee. According to Tenet, Russia is hardly a reliable partner in the "war against terror." Instead, Russia is "the first choice of proliferant states seeking the most advanced technology and training," said Tenet.
What the CIA director could not say, and perhaps what makes President George W. Bush so desperately eager to wipe out the regime of Saddam Hussein, is that Russia may have given red mercury fusion technology to Saddam. According to one of my sources, Iraq possesses "s-megaton" micro-nuclear warheads. These are softball-sized two-megaton fusion bombs triggered by an irradiated and compressed compound of mercury antimony oxide. This device doubles the nuclear yield with a hundredfold reduction of weight. Using heavy hydrogen instead of uranium or plutonium to fuel its explosive reaction, this hand-held nuclear weapon cannot be detected by U.S. sensors.
It should be acknowledged that CIA Director Tenet singled out Russia for a reason. Only Russia has compression technology in advance of America's. Only Russia has worked long and hard to develop a perfect fusion bomb (the U.S. having abandoned its own effort decades ago). And now American intelligence has evidence of something dire, something they don't want to tell us. According to STRATFOR, "A severe crisis between the two sides [America and Russia] may now be forming." As STRATFOR further points out, "Now the director of the CIA has named Russia as the key source of WMD proliferation."
Perhaps we are now in a position to understand what Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, meant when he said last fall that America would soon be destroyed. He did not say America would be crippled, or that America would be defeated. He said America would disappear. When a suspect in the Danny Pearl kidnapping and murder case was being escorted by guards in Pakistan a couple of weeks ago, he reportedly shouted to the press, "Sell your dollars! Soon America will be gone."
What does Al Qaeda know that we don't?
CIA Director Tenet was very clear when he spoke to the U.S. Senate committee last week. He holds Russia responsible for giving advanced mass destruction technology to Iraq. And Tenet evidently believes that Iraq is allied to Al Qaeda. As STRATFOR explained, "Tenet delivered a blunt message to Putin: The United States believes that WMD proliferation is official Russian policy." The Bush administration was offering a stern warning to Moscow. It must halt its technology transfers to rogue regimes or suffer the consequences. And what would those consequences be? STRATFOR claims that President Putin "faces the distinct possibility of attacks on Russian weapons facilities and the potential elimination of his country's nuclear capability."
This statement deserves further elaboration. But who dares to elaborate? Is America actually contemplating a nuclear strike on the Russian nuclear arsenal? Only a very desperate crisis would trigger such unthinkable verbiage out of our bloodless bean counters.
In fact, if STRATFOR's report is correct, the United States is holding Russia directly responsible for Saddam Hussien's future actions. And this should tell us, at the very least, that Saddam Hussein is a much more terrible threat than the general public has been led to believe. So terrible is the threat, that U.S. officials find it necessary to openly threaten Russia in order to reestablish the balance of terror in the wake of Moscow's secret connivance with Iraq.
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Surely, only a very grave threat would inspire such urgency in U.S. policy-makers. DEBKA confirms that the reason for the U.S. urgency has to do with Iraq's possession of nuclear warheads, though DEBKA does not confirm that these are "s-megaton" micro nuclear devices. Why the U.S. would be concerned with large, more cumbersome and detectable weapons is a question that readers will have to sort for themselves. According to DEBKA, the main reason for a nuclear blitzkrieg against Iraq in April would be to "locate nuclear devices believed to be in the possession of Saddam Hussein." The idea would then be to destroy the weapons before they could be used to trigger a nuclear or biological holocaust. Judging by the tempo of U.S. moves, Iraq's nuclear capability will probably become effective some time after April 25. That is why, even though U.S. military authorities confess that we are unready to attack Iraq, an attack must go forward nonetheless. U.S. officials are also said to be planning nuclear strikes that would eliminate the top Iraqi leadership, opening the way for the negotiated surrender of individual Iraqi divisions and the creation of a Kurdish state in the north.
DEBKA further alleges that Vice President Richard Cheney received intelligence during his recent Middle East trip that Iraq had already transferred nuclear weapons to Al Qaeda, along with weaponized smallpox. Cheney was supposedly told that some of these munitions may have been smuggled into the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Go to World Net Daily and look up to read the rest of this report. Have a nice day !
What I keep thinking as I read it is we can not afford to have Bush lose. As someone living in a target area, I shudder to think what Kerry would do to fight al Qaeda.
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