Posted on 09/12/2001 6:09:38 PM PDT by Uncle Bill
Reminds me of the story of the scorpion stinging the frog after promising not too. It's their nature. Those that are suprised by the communists are those people that forgot what communists are.
Or never knew in the first place.
Thanks!
You mean our support of terrorists like the Palestinian terror state on which we now claim to depend for our own protection of assets at home and abroad. Go get a grip.
The report in The Times today of components for a nuclear weapon reaching bin Laden via Pakistan suggests this worst fear in the war on terror may have been realised. If proven, it would be “a five-star disaster for the world”, one of America’s leading non-proliferation experts said last night.
It would also focus international attention on two Pakistani nuclear scientists arrested this week, and on an alleged Pakistani intelligence agent whom US undercover agents heard say he wanted to “kill all Americans”. (Our allies?)
Pakistan has between 30 and 120 nuclear weapons, built with components smuggled from Germany and The Netherlands in the 1980s.
President Musharraf has declined US offers of increased “perimeter security” for his research reactors and nuclear storage sites, insisting they are completely safe, but other sources tell a different story.
The Pakistani connection to bin Laden’s efforts to acquire nuclear weapons came to the FBI’s attention two years ago. Raja Ghulam Abbas, linked by the US to both bin Laden and Pakistan’s ISI intelligence agency, met an FBI informer for lunch at a Manhattan restaurant within view of the World Trade Centre, and told him he wanted the twin towers “reduced to rubble.”
Are You at Risk From Biological Weapons?
"Over a week ago, Dr. Weeks said it had been, despite strong official denials. Again Dr. Weeks has been proven right, and officials have reversed themselves. What does the "weaponized" anthrax reveal?
Dr. Weeks believes that the weaponized anthrax indicates the people behind these attacks are capable of much more significant attacks and could have easily killed tens of thousands, or more, if they had chosen to do so.
... He is shocked, based on his military and medical experience, to see so much disinformation being fed to the public by the major media. Most of their claims about the anthrax attacks have been dead wrong – including claims that the anthrax used in the postal attacks could not be disseminated or aerosolized easily. In fact, he says, it could have been easily aerosolized."
(Odd, seems this foreboding thread would be at the top quite a bit-- --considering all the paranoid liberals that post here at FR.
US investigating whether nukes in country - Free Republic
I am aware that Edward Teller believes that Red Mercury POSSIBLY is a hoax. But Sam Cohen, the father of the neutron bomb, has a different scientific postion about red Mercury and neutron bombs and he is of equal stature as Teller as a nuclear physicist. See reports of other nuclear scientists positions on red mercury at the end of this reply.
Here is some information attributed to Sam Cohen on the existence and use of Red Mercury :
According to Sam Cohen, a new type of non-nuclear explosive is potent enough to light off a nuclear fusion reaction between deuterium and tritium. In the usual H-bomb, a fission bomb is needed as a match to light off the fusion. With the new type of explosive, the fission bomb is unnecessary. As nuclear bombs go, the pure fusion bombs have an extremely low blast, equivalent to 1 ton of TNT: a "pop, not a bang." But they release a flood of neutrons, lethal within 1/3 mile, causing death "from immediately, till shortly after."
They could be made by several countries known to sponsor terrorism, and could be carried in a sandwich bag. The new type of non-nuclear explosives are called ballotechnic materials. Cohen says that unlike other explosives, they produce no bang, no cloud, keep the same shape while they detonate, "but Boy!, do they get hot!" Ballotechnics may have already led to very small fission bombs as well as pure fusion.
Cohen identifies the mysterious "red mercury" (of TV documentary fame) as a ballotechnic material. He offers this "recipe:" take mercury-antimony oxide, compress it, and bombard with neutrons. He says it is slightly radioactive, with a half-life of a couple of days. Cohen says the Russians have built and tested mini-nukes, and that Americans and Russians are cooperating on pure fusion. He says that a Russian bomb was brought to Los Alamos ("by Federal Express" from a Russian plane in Washington) and successfully tested. .....
The terrorist potential of mini neutron bombs is horrifying. One possibility mentioned by Cohen involved a US State Of The Union address.
(Source for the above information:http://www.quackgrass.com/roots/ddp95.html)
Here is even more information attributed to Sam Cohen about neutron bombs and red mercury.
Most frightening for Cohen is the relative ease by which neutron bombs can be created with a substance called red mercury. Red mercury is a compound containing mercury that has undergone massive irradiation. When exploded, it creates tremendous heat and pressure - the same type needed to trigger a fusion device such as a mini-neutron bomb. Before, an obstacle to creating a nuclear bomb was the need for plutonium, which when exploded could create a fusion reaction in hydrogen atoms. But red mercury has changed that. The cheap substance has been produced in Russia, Cohen said, and shipped on the black market throughout the world.
Cohen said that when U.N. inspectors went to Iraq to examine the Iraqis' nuclear weapons capabilities, the U.N. team found documents showing that they had purchased quantities of red mercury. The material means a neutron bomb can be built "the size of baseball" but able to kill everyone within several square blocks.
(Source for the above information is http://www.manuelsweb.com/sam_cohen.htm)
And here is what others have reported about red mercury and nuclear weapons:
(http://www.antenna.nl/wise/368/3616.html)
published by WISE News Communique on March 6, 1992
Red mercury may be bomb detonator
It has been confirmed from several sources that the substance red mercury can be used as a chemical high-explosive to detonate nuclear bombs.
(368.3616) WISE-Stockholm- There has been widespread speculation about the use of the material, especially since it has become part of the post-Soviet black market (see WISE News Communique 366.3594). .......
According to Jonathan Eyal, director of the royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies (which is connected to the British Department of Defence) in London, England, "Red mercury is definitely used in the production of nuclear weapons with Soviet technology. Red mercury is of great interest to third world countries that want to make nuclear bombs, because the technology is different and cheaper than that used in the west. There is information from government sources in Bulgaria and Georgia that a type of red mercury is used in the nuclear weapons production process. Red mercury is used as a detonator, an ignition material, to make the bomb itself explode. The fact is that a very large black market exists for red mercury and there are many buyers prepared to pay in the range of millions."
Further confirmation comes from the USA, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and the IAEA.
In early February the IAEA stated that "red mercury can be used as a detonator in nuclear weapons."
The Czech news agency CSTK announced last September that "red mercury is a strategic material used in the production of nuclear weapons." In Hungary, Professor Gyorgy Marx, head of the nuclear physics department at Budapest University, has pointed out that, "Red mercury 20/20 can cause the type of explosion needed to start a nuclear reaction in a plutonium loaded nuclear weapon."
And in Italy, Judge Romano Dolce in Milano presided over a case where two kilograms red mercury are reported to have been sold for US$800,000. He said, "Red mercury is not a bluff, but a business for weapons purposes. Red mercury is viewed as an important ingredient in production of nuclear weapons and buyers are prepared to pay millions of dollars for it."
The monthly Arms Control Reporter, published by the Institute of Defense and Disarmament Studies in Boston, USA, quotes (in its October 1991 issue) Czechoslovakian sources as stating that, "Red mercury is a substance used to detonate nuclear bombs." David Bowersox, a top official at the Lost Alamos National Laboratory in the US, a center for nuclear weapons research and production since 1945, has stated, "Red mercury can function as a detonator for nuclear weapons because of the strength of its explosion. It could also be used in a cleaning process for plutonium or uranium".
Source: Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden), 10 Feb. 1992.
32 posted on 12/21/01 11:49 AM Pacific by OKCSubmariner
FBI focusing on portable nuke threat
U.S.: Bin Laden has nuke know-how
2 NUKE EXPERTS BRIEFED BIN LADEN -Pak Scientists Confirm Acess to Radioactive Material
I believe that our new ally Pakistan has nuclear scientists who are members of Al Qaeda..
As does the support for freedom everwhere!
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