[ContentiousObjector]

No, but if you were running from a burning building and there was a laptop sitting on a table that would soon be destroyed... wouldn't you grab it?

[VRWC_minion]

He didn't GRAB it on his own

"I have very important things at my disposal that I have been ordered to have, to keep, and I've kept them, and I don't want this to proliferate, because of its potential consequences if it falls in the hands of tyrants, in the hands of dictators or of terrorists," said Obeidi, who has been taken out of Iraq with the help of the U.S. government.

You might want to wait for the facts to come in rather than specualte why its rational for you to be out on that limb so far when you can hear Bush's chain saw reving up.

[Frank_Discussion]

A laptop, perhaps. It would depend the speed of the burn. But this isn't a laptop, it's a heavy, bulky gas centrifuge. You can't walk out with it cradled under your arm, and finding a truck or something to carry it out on, to BURY IT IN THE GROUND AT HOME, is a dubious idea at best.

And somebody would notice.