Spy Death by Nuclear Poisoning Tied to American Hiroshima

canada free press ^ | December 6, 2006 | By Paul L. Williams Ph.D.

[BigFinn]

The death of Alexander Litvinenko by radiological poisoning points to the possibility that the former Soviet spy may have been involved with Islamic terrorists in the preparation of tactical nuclear weapons for use in the jihad against the United States and its NATO allies.

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In recent years, considerable attention has been paid to suitcase nukes that were developed by U.S. and Soviet forces during the Cold War. Reliable sources, including Hans Blix of the United Nation, have confirmed that bin Laden purchased several of these devices from the Chechen rebels in 1996. According to Sharif al-Masri and other al Qaeda operatives who have been taken into custody, several of these weapons have been forward deployed to the United States in preparation for al Qaeda’s next attack on American soil.

This brings us to the mysterious case of Litvinenko.

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Polonium-210 has a half-life of 138 days, necessitating the replacement of the triggers every six months. For this reason, the suitcase nukes are far from maintenance-free. In addition, the nuclear core of these devices emit a temperature in excess of one hundred degrees Fahrenheit - - further exposing the weapons to oxidation and rust. Small wonder that al Qaeda operatives including Adnan el-Shukrijumah, who are spearheading “the American Hiroshima” have received extensive training in nuclear technology.

Polonium-beryllium triggers are packaged in foil packs about the size of a package of sugar on a restaurant table. When the twin foil packages are crushed, the elements mix and the neutrons are emitted. A courier transporting nuclear triggers could have had a mishap causing the packages to rupture and a trail of contamination to occur.

Polonium-210 is a fine powder, easily aerosolized. Litvinenko could have inhaled the powder, or had a grain or two on his fingers when he ate the sushi.

[BigFinn]

The mere fact that he converted to Islam points to this direction. Scary stuff.

[Ben Mugged]

Reliable sources, including Hans Blix of the United Nation

I would doubt any story that made this asinine assertion.

[Izzy Dunne]

Reliable sources, including Hans Blix of the United Nation

I cannot read any further.

[RightWhale]

Paul Williams! Yay, he has a retired-guy hobby!

[NinoFan]

Hans Blix is a reliable source?

Sorry, I'm not buying into this disinfo campaign.

[b4its2late]

[Izzy Dunne]

Not to wrry; Nancy will protect us now.

The have a PLAN^®.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

This article does seem to be "stretching it."

Although the guy did apparently sympathize with Muslims.

[NinoFan]

By the way, I should add that I don't doubt that Bin Laden looked into this stuff. I'm just not willing to give Putin's crew a pass just yet. A lot of the others who are backing this new twist on the story are unreliable at best.

[flintsilver7]

I hereby propose a full and complete ban on posting anything by Paul Williams, Joseph Farah, or any other WorldNutDaily-like garbage.

There's this very intelligent fellow named Richard Miniter who long ago debunked the myth of suitcase nukes.

It would be also be very convenient to ignore Occam's Razor on this - if the guy said he was poisoned and he turns out to have been poisoned, should we:

A) Believe he was poisoned, or

B) Believe he is working with a vast shadow conspiracy of Islamic terrorists and was accidentally poisoned during his routine maintenance of "suitcase nukes."

I am so sick of this crap.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

...and she's a grand mother, doncha know.

She and Patty "Osama Mama" Murray (just a mom in tennis shoes), will protect America with all their maternal instincts, intuition, and caring, which our enemies will automatically respect.

[BigFinn]

Hans Blix is not the only one to submit reports about suitcase nukes and the treat of sneaking in nuclear material for the purpose of killing millions. Homeland Security has too. At least he saw that it was a threat. Get over the Hans Blix line... it is a possibility. It is a lot easier to get this stuff around than a suitcase nuke and just as effective. Think outside your box, for crying out loud.

[DBrow]

"necessitating the replacement of the triggers every six months."

This is technobabble; the reload requirement is not necessarily six months based on half-life. What if you put in four times the minimum amount? Then the reload time becomes 4 half-lives (three for a factor of 2 reliability). This "factoid" is an indicator of unreliable information.

I read a book recently in which it was claimed that bin Laden had some sixty nukes, all maintained by a technically savvy crew, in some secret laboratory somewhere. It was not sold as fiction, though I read it as a comedy.

I cannot imagine al Quaeda waiting a millisecond if they actually had one nuke, let alone sixty. The possibility of losing your asset through an intel failure is huge, plus, every other terror organization would be after it to vaporize their own favorite target. They'd have to use it as soon as it was operational.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

And I imagine they mis-heard PuBe as PoBe. If it was easy then everyone would do it.

Either we are equal or we are not. Good people ought to be armed where they will, with wits and guns. NRA KMA Merry Christmas

[tx_eggman]

I hereby propose a full and complete ban on posting anything by Paul Williams, Joseph Farah, or any other WorldNutDaily-like garbage.

The all knowing Ayatollah flintsilver7® has spoken.

[Oorang]

Info ping

[antisocial]

"I am so sick of this crap."

You ain't been here long enough to get sick of us yet.

[Parmenio]

I agree with you. And is it just me or have other people noticed it? -- that since the election, there seems to be a resurgence of black helicopter chatter on Free Republic and other conservative outlets and forums.

[DBrow]

Another clue- "polonium is a fine powder"- If I wrote "steel is a fine powder" or "wood is a fine powder" you'd dismiss it as absurd. Steel CAN BE a fine powder, as can many things, but to assert that Po is a fine powder is unsupported.

Whoever wrote this has a scenario in his head and is making stuff up to support that scenario (in my humble opinion).

[theFIRMbss]

>You ain't been here long enough to get sick of us yet

Maybe the poster was exposed to one of those Smallville meteors and is living life super-accelerated and will opus soon . . .