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To: JustPiper
Thanks.

Most of it is not good, but now a surprise, except for this part,where they think AQ may actually set off a REAL nuke, not just a "dirty bomb".

"According to the report, al Qaeda and other terrorists also could produce what the CIA calls an "improvised nuclear device" capable of causing a nuclear blast.
Such a bomb is "intended to cause a yield-producing nuclear explosion," the report said.

Terrorists could produce a nuclear device in three ways, including a bomb made from "diverted nuclear-weapons components," a nuclear weapon that had been modified, or a new, indigenously designed device, the report said.
A homemade nuclear bomb would be one of two types: either an implosion device that uses conventional explosives to create a nuclear blast, or a "gun-assembled" device. Making a nuclear bomb would require that terrorists first obtain fissile material such as enriched uranium or plutonium as fuel for creating a nuclear blast. "
91 posted on 06/02/2003 10:59:50 PM PDT by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion
Fair this was posted by you:

Heightened Alert (e-ails cited: NY, DC and "beaches" targets)

This is why I felt your post and all the info contained in it should have some special status here.

112 posted on 06/02/2003 11:09:32 PM PDT by JustPiper (Joe Phillips for Congress- http://www.josephcphillips.com/index.asp)
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To: FairOpinion
Or once again using our own assets against us to create a nuke explosion, like- Nuke Plants?
117 posted on 06/02/2003 11:10:39 PM PDT by JustPiper (Joe Phillips for Congress- http://www.josephcphillips.com/index.asp)
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