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Dirty Bomb: Here And Now?
IBD Editorials ^ | February 14, 2011 | Staff

Posted on 02/14/2011 4:32:46 PM PST by Kaslin

Homeland Security: An assistant port director says "weapons of mass effect" have been found on American soil, possibly smuggled in across our porous border. The drug war in Mexico may be the least of our worries.

Doing the job the so-called mainstream American media won't do, Britain's Daily Telegraph recently reported that, according to WikiLeaks documents, a gift that seems to keep on giving, U.S. officials were warned years ago that al-Qaida could build a dirty bomb capable of doing great damage to an American city.

Now another British paper, the Daily Mail, reports on a televised interview by San Diego's 10News in which the city's assistant port director, Al Hallor, admitted on camera that "weapons of mass effect" had been found by U.S. agencies on U.S. soil.

Reporter Mitch Blacher asked Hallor: "Do you ever find things that are dangerous like a chemical agent or a weaponized device?" The customs official replied: "At the airport, seaport, at our port of entry we have not this past fiscal year, but our partner agencies have found those things."

"So, specifically, you're looking for the dirty bomb? You're looking for the nuclear device?" asked Blacher. "Correct," said Hallor. "Weapons of mass effect."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 201102; alqaeda; alqaida; dhs; dirtybomb; hallor; homelandsecurity; ibd; terrorism; waronterror; wmd; wme; wot
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1 posted on 02/14/2011 4:32:47 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Something else our state-run media can not hold the Messiah responsible for.


2 posted on 02/14/2011 4:34:27 PM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: Steely Tom

Yeah, with this story unspooling presently if a dirty bomb or nuke we off in the next few days/weeks/months this admin would shit sea turtles once the news hit.


3 posted on 02/14/2011 4:36:40 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour (With The Resistance...)
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To: Kaslin

"Obama Obama shifts FBI from Counter Terrorism to Fraud"


"Victims of Cole bombing upset
"A top officer slammed Obama's decision to seek the withdrawal of charges against the 2000 suspected U.S.S. Cole ship bomber."


"Impeach Obama Says Sister of Cole Sailor Killed in Terror Attacks
"The sister of Seaman James McDaniels, a sailor killed in the terror attack on the U.S.S. Cole wants President Barack Hussein Obama impeached
over his decision to withdraw charges against the al Qaeda mastermind of the attack."


"Mother of USS Cole Sailor Declines Obama-meet, Says "I Voted for the Wrong Person"
"After Obama dropped the charges against the suspect in the bombing of the USS Cole,
he asked the families of the victims in that tragedy to meet with him.
One mother refused, and now says,"I voted for the wrong person."


John Brennan:"Jihad is a holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam"

4 posted on 02/14/2011 4:37:07 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Kaslin

So long as it’s not confused with its use in science fiction, the term “mass effect” is probably a more accurate term than “mass destruction”, for such weapons as dirty bombs.


5 posted on 02/14/2011 4:38:54 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Kaslin

6 posted on 02/14/2011 4:45:31 PM PST by McGruff (If you tell a lie enough times some people will come to believe it.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

It depends on how and where it’s deployed.


7 posted on 02/14/2011 4:48:00 PM PST by RC one
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To: Kaslin

Hunh. Just in time for the vote on the extension of the Patriot Act.


8 posted on 02/14/2011 4:53:03 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (talk to the hand)
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To: the invisib1e hand

Do we still listen to ‘chatter’? Or are we post-Islamo-paranoid now?


9 posted on 02/14/2011 4:55:26 PM PST by txhurl
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To: the invisib1e hand

exactly


10 posted on 02/14/2011 4:57:05 PM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Kaslin

The scary thing is a dirty “bomb” could have already been set in motion and we won’t know about it until people start getting sick.


11 posted on 02/14/2011 4:59:17 PM PST by Terry Mross (We need a SECOND party.)
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To: Steely Tom

Thank God for Wiki-leaks!


12 posted on 02/14/2011 5:04:04 PM PST by stockpirate (U-6 Total unemployed for January 2011 16.1 percent)
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To: Kaslin

The dirty bomb lives in Washington DC


13 posted on 02/14/2011 5:05:59 PM PST by sasquatch
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To: Terry Mross

Never let a crisis go to waste. Create a crisis if need be.


14 posted on 02/14/2011 5:19:37 PM PST by txhurl
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To: txhurl

Budget time in DC.


15 posted on 02/14/2011 5:32:07 PM PST by MCF
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To: Terry Mross

“... could have already been set in motion and we won’t know about it until..”

There isn’t some sort of explosion? Do they go off in a crowded area and not known? That is even more scary.


16 posted on 02/14/2011 6:53:28 PM PST by momtothree
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To: momtothree

What I’m saying is a terrorist could simply drop a vial in a crowed place such as a subway and the virus starts spreading.


17 posted on 02/14/2011 7:31:19 PM PST by Terry Mross (We need a SECOND party.)
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To: Terry Mross; momtothree

Tom Clancy already wrote a book about this very thing...Very entertaining, but the real issue should concern us all...

Whether it is radiological, or biological, if we are not directly effected by the agent utilized, we need to be prepared for this country to come apart at the seams, because no one will know what to do, much less help the situation...

It’ll get ugly real fast...

And that really is a shame when you get right down to it...


18 posted on 02/15/2011 4:16:03 AM PST by stevie_d_64 (I'm jus' sayin')
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To: Terry Mross

You mean an un noticed explosion spewed rad material over city blocks? Un noticed, we don’t know about the explosion?


19 posted on 02/15/2011 9:27:34 AM PST by RoadGumby (For God so loved the world)
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To: Terry Mross

OK, is it a bio weapon or a radiological weapon, which one are you speaking of?


20 posted on 02/15/2011 9:30:08 AM PST by RoadGumby (For God so loved the world)
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