**Breaking*** Document found in Afghanistan confirms airline attack on nuclear power plant

CNN Breaking news ^ | 31 JAN 02 | dcbryan1

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[Alberta's Child]

I don't know who this quote is attributed to, but it sure is a classic:

"The biggest problem in America today is that the dominant culture has begun to emulate its former slaves."

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Is Michael Jackson involved?

[ignatz_q]

External energy input simply doesn't drive material around as efficiently as internal (stored) energy release. Here's an example. Compare the dispersion resulting from an exploding firecracker (stored energy release) to an equivalent energy delivered to the same material by a hammer blow. See the difference? Same effect here.

I see your point, but I think you're leaving out a couple of important factors. First of all, while the explosion itself might only spread radioactive material a couple of miles, the resulting fire would send toxic ash and debris for into the atmosphere to be carried by the wind. And of course, at the site of the explosion, contamination might very well be too high to deal with this fire in an efficient manner.

If such a release occurred, I'll grant you that immediate casualties would be relatively low compared with a bomb. Longer-term deaths resulting from poisoning, cancers, and birth defects will be much higher.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Instead of racial profiling, our goverment needs to deport every non-citizen, and close our borders now!

This would be the obvious thing to do.

Its better to make every effort for safety, than have the potential for hundreds of thousands of dead and very sick Americans.

To this day, I am surprised that the deportation and closure of our borders did not commence at midnight on 9/11/01.

[John H K]

I'd love it if a US airline banned ALL people of Middle Eastern descent from boarding their airline. I'd fly it.

They'd still be happily letting the shoe bomber on, Richard Reid (for all of those living in a cave, he didn't have a drop of Middle Eastern or Arab blood in him).

And they would have let Johnny Walker Lindh on, had he chosen to join the Martydom Corps.

And all the Malaysian and Indonesian Muslims in the world could happily ride the plane with you even if an airline adopted your moronic policy.

And how, pray tell, are you defining "Middle Eastern Descent? Are you going to let Jews on? They're from the Middle East. How about someone who is half-German, half Lebanese Christian whose grandfather came here from Beirut in 1910? You aren't letting Doug Flutie or Casey Casem fly with you if you're banning people of Middle Eastern descent, I hope you realize.

[Mixer]

Screw PC, go with probability.

That would be the only airlines I would fly with for the rest of my life. Like you said though it will never happen. Unless you want to start one with me ;>)

[Dog]

CNN was just talking about this ...the info is coming from a SENIOR Al-Qaeda operative....

[Bobby777]

they were talking airline attacks on nuclear power plants in the 70's ... and probably earlier ... and containment domes were given 5 feet or more of reinforced concrete ... especially when (gasp!) Islamic terrorists were seizing commercial airplanes in the 1970's ... that's why September 11 should not have been such a surprise to this country ... Islamic terrorists had a HUGE interest in hijacked airplanes in the 1970's ... didn't they blow up 3 on the ground (at one time) back then? (plus more) ... sure, the acting was bad but didn't anybody watch The Delta Force with Chuck Norris? ... here we were, worried about OBL and one of the most major methods was overlooked ... we should have had Sky Marshalls since the 1970's ... random at least ...

[L.N. Smithee]

CNN is breaking story that a document has been found, translated, and verified that a terrorist cell of three (3) men are in the United States and recruiting Muslims and other non-Arabs on a plan to attack a nuclear power plant in a similar way that the WTC was attacked. The document states that the nuke plant should be close to a city in case the plant is being patrolled by fighters, and to divert the plane to the nearest tall building.

When the word went out that Johnny Jihad spilled the beans about 'America being destroyed before the end of Ramadan,' I always thought that it had something to do with turning nuke plants into nuke bombs.

[Djarum]

I'd love it if a US airline banned ALL people of Middle Eastern descent from boarding their airline.

How would that stop another Bishop or Walker?

[PeteF]

This document could have been created months before our bombing campaign began. The key word here is 'planned'.

[blam]

"You mean EgyptAir, the suicide dive by the co-pilot."

Yes. I guess that was not flight 800. I got them mixed up.....Anyway, you got the drift...

[philo]

It's the called the "Spent Fuel Pool".

It's exactly what it is, the old radiated rods that have been "cycled out" and are left there because their is no place for their disposal.

They're not a threat if they are kept in water. These pools usually have no protection what so ever.

In fact the H.B. Robinson Reactor in SC is just basically a tin roof structure that's removable.

In most reactors in wouldn't take a big plane to create massive damage.

[Lael]

CNN was just talking about this ...the info is coming from a SENIOR Al-Qaeda operative....

I never thought Bin Laden hadn't prepared a second, or third attack. He is a highly intelligent engineer who has had at least ten years to think things through in Afghanistan.

We underestimate him at our peril!

[Age of Reason]

How hard might it be to erect a steel cage around these power plants, such that an airplane would be shredded by the cage, leaving only smaller fragments to bounce harmlessly off the containment building?

[brewcrew]

But security is still penetrable.

That it is. All we can do is the best possible job of keeping these buggers off our aircraft. So far it's worked. For that I am happy.

[John H K]

Our economy couldn't function normally without our illegal aliens, much less the legal ones.

Successfully getting rid of all of both categories would cause more economic dislocation to the US than the 9/11 attacks.

People don't want to hear that, of course.

[Zviadist]

Right. Anything to keep the public on edge and supporting this war against the world. Next they'll find more videos. People are such suckers for propaganda.

[acehai]

...but the only thing that could stop someone hell-bent on comandeering an airliner right now is action by the passengers.

Or...The Pilot Not Flying in a two pilot crew aware, on guard, and armed with a Glock. Nobody gets into the cockpit, no commandeering. Basic...

[Age of Reason]

They'd still be happily letting the shoe bomber on, Richard Reid (for all of those living in a cave, he didn't have a drop of Middle Eastern or Arab blood in him).

No problem, we'll profile dirt bags with ponytails too.

(Sorry, but I still live in an Ozzie and Harriet Leave it to Beaver world, where a dad exchanges his suit jacket for a cardogan sweater on arriving home from the office, leaving his white shirt and tie on while sitting down to the dinner that mom made. And only the women have long hair--always.)