[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, October 2, 2002

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[John H K]

Which sells better and gets more publicity?:

1) A book about Al Quaeda that says they have 20 suitcase nukes

2) A book about Al Quaeda that says they don't have 20 suitcase nukes

[Johnny Shear]

What a bunch of CRAP!

And these CLOWNS at WorldNetDaily are bitching about not getting a White House Press Pass??? I wouldn't give them a Press Pass to MY White House.

Art Bell has more credibility than WorldNetDaily.

No offense to you JohnHuang2...I appreciate what you provide for Free Republic.

[Hatteras]

"Williams quotes an anonymous federal official as saying: "The question isn't whether bin Laden has nuclear weapons, it's when he will try to use them."

bin Laden is dead, but if the possibilities exist that one of his surviving nutcase adjutants would pick up the slack you must than ask why did he go through all that planning and risk to crash a few planes. It would have been much easier to back a catering truck up to the back door of the WTC and he would have had the added bonus of taking out all of lower Manhattan.

[Mr. Quarterpanel]

Though the devices were designed only to be operated by Soviet SPETZNAZ personnel, or special forces, al-Qaida scientists came up with a way of hot-wiring the bombs to the bodies of would-be martyrs, according to the book.

BZZZZZZ!!! Sorry. It don't work like that.

Nukes are built with multiple safeties in place and small ones have anti-tampering devices and require a separate "head" to arm. It is not like there is a red button inside that one simply presses! Even a "Scientist" would have GREAT difficulty (read: impossible) hotwiring the nuke without activating the anti-tampering device that would destroy the nuke (along with the "scientist") without triggering the fissionable material. Even if the safeties could be defeated, one would have no way of knowing it actually worked unless tested.

Please keep in mind that nukes are not built from parts readily available at Radio Shack, and that even the Soviets were interested in these things NOT going off unless intended.

[tracer]

It's more likely that they have 20 shopping bag nukes.......

[Senator Pardek]

Suitcase nukes are not really suitcases at all, but suitcase-size nuclear devices. The weapons can be fired from grenade or rocket launchers...

Lol...

[Mr. Mojo]

WND will do just about anything for a readership, apparently. ...But they're driving away the discrimminating ones.