[Destro]

Radioactive material is not WMD. Your local cancer hospital has radioactive material used to treat patients, etc. The people who looted what they looted have no idea what radiation is or what it can do.

[FairOpinion]

These radioactive isotopes were NOT in Iraqi hospitals, they were at Al Tuwaitha, one of Saddam's nuclear weapons sites. Dirty bombs ARE weapons of mass destruction.

IAEA is now saying that the material is enough for several "plenty of" dirty bombs. That would meet the definition of WMD by anyone.

[Amerigomag]

Radioactive material is not WMD

Packed around an explosive core and detonated at the site of the world trade center would render a great deal of lower Manhattan uninhabitable for years.

New York City/US would face the choice of bankrupting the city in the demolition/clean up effort or letting the contaminated zone remain unihabited for scores of years. In either case the US financial district would have to be moved out of lower Manhattan.

More accuratley it would be a weapon of mass disruption. Massive economic disruption, which was the original plan.

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

"Radioactive material is not WMD."

Gee, does that mean that a nuclear bomb is not a WMD? After all, it is made of Radioactive material.