[Calvin Locke]

ART BELL ALERT: He is buddy-buddy with this guy Hoagland, former consultant to NASA/CBS (gotta shake out the mothballs and cobwebs on this one) and a BIG pusher on the face on Mars theory.

Anyway Hoaxland (as he's known on newsgroups.A.F.A-B) says that one of the suitcase bombs was hidden in the Washington Monument during renovations.
I recall from an album of old radio programs that the stone contribed by the Vatican was radioactive, "but wasn't dangerous".

Much like the widening of I-93 in NH a few years ago produced low-level radioactive "waste" in the form of granite rock conventionally blasted out of the way.

For what it's worth.

[soundbits]

I thought Hoagland was speculating that a suitcase-sized nuke could have been secreted into the Washington Monument during the restoration project a while back. Part of his speculation was that the anthrax threat activity was a diversion (albeit serious as a heart attack) to keep the investigative and public safety agencies preoccupied while another BIG destructive deadly event by the terrorist cells comes to fruition.

[Dumb_Ox]

I recall from an album of old radio programs that the stone contribed by the Vatican was radioactive, "but wasn't dangerous".

Was this the same stone allegedly stolen by the Know-Nothings in 1854? Or its replacement?