Official: Libyan nuclear material in U.S

cnn ^ | 27 Jan 2004 | Elise Labott

[demlosers]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A U.S plane filled with Libyan nuclear components landed this morning at a U.S. facility in Knoxville, Tennessee, for destruction, a senior administration official said.

"It is chock full of nuclear materials," the official said. "They let us take out some extraordinary stuff."

[demlosers]

What are the chances that Libya had surprising amounts of WMD, but Iraq had none? Seems incredible to me.

Yes incredible. What WMDs Saddam had was easy to hide in the area the size of California.

[rintense]

Jim Angle (FOX NEWS) just asked Scott McClellan Why are we bring this into the country. There was no real answer.

My theory is so they can examine the components and determine just WHO helped Libya develop this stuff. Hello, France, Germany and Russia!

[blackdog]

I know that. Do you remember the stink made when just one shuttle mission would be carrying a small reactor for sattellite fuel? Something like a thimble full of nuclear fuel and the world was coming to an end if the shuttle had a mishap over the florida coast! They had experts warning us 24/7 over how risky it was to put all those people's lives in peril.

Of course flying one o dem big o'l birds chocked fullo nuclear weapons materials is just okeee-dokey?

[Lazamataz]

I'll be damned. DEBKA predicted this 2 days ago.

This is the only time I know DEBKA to be right about anything. I am gobsmacked.

[Tacis]

Gee, if the government wanted Lybian nuclear material, why didn't they just have the Mexicans carry over the southern border like all the Saudi terrorists do? If it's very heavy, the Mexican army (for a higher charge) will deliver it withing 10 miles of the border. Same with dope or illegals.

[cake_crumb]

Well, it's obviously Bush's fault for deficit spending and I'll NEVER vote for HIM

[Cosmo]

Happiness is the Bush Doctrine.

We're witnessing the most brilliant foreign policy of our nation's brief history.

[Starve The Beast]

This story keeps using the phrase "nuclear materials"... does anyone know what the heck that's supposed to mean? I can't believe that we're talking about actual fissionable isotopes of uranium, or plutonium, or stuff like that. Surely there would be more hoopla in the media if that were the case...?

[cake_crumb]

"Jim Angle (FOX NEWS) just asked Scott McClellan Why are we bring this into the country."

Just what country would you prefer it go to? Or should it stay in Lybia? Maybe we should trust it to the dictator's club at the UN?

I wouldn't grace such a stupid question with an answer either.

[blackdog]

Maybe this will stir up the "Lost nuclear bombs" burried in silt off the Charleston Coast panic.

I'd think if weapons inspectors are thin on work lately we might enlist their help in retrieving a few hundred megaton warheads out of Charleston Harbor.

I do not like the idea of flying nuclear bomb materials in partially assembled kit form like complex big wheels under the christmas tree into our airways.

[Dog]

They took it to Oak Ridge National Laboratory ....

[demlosers]

Something like a thimble full of nuclear fuel and the world was coming to an end if the shuttle had a mishap over the florida coast!

Just wait until the Bush's $3 billion Prometheus nuclear space program fruit begins to ripe, those Libs with be having cows. :)

[Dog]

"nuclear materials"... does anyone know what the heck that's supposed to mean? I can't believe that we're talking about actual fissionable isotopes of uranium, or plutonium, or stuff like that. Surely there would be more hoopla in the media if that were the case...?

We don't know how far along Libya was in its nuke program...as for a media hoopla.....don't worry they are to busy worrying if NH will go to Kerry or not.

[Cobra Scott]

It wasn't stupid. Fox news has to broadcast to the lowest common denominator, and it gives Angle a chance to explain just how tedious the destruction is, and why it can't just be done out in the Libyan desert somewhere. In fact, its a darn good question, because if it isn't properly explained, it will become part of the left's conspiracy BS. Although it probably already has. Still, the best weapon against spin is the Truth. Get the Truth out there first, IMO.

[blackdog]

Remember that guy in the Australian outback that covered his Airstream mobile home with thousands of pillows during Skylab's re-entry? Even the ones he strapped onto his dog?

[demlosers]

LOL!

[blackdog]

I would be very curious to hear if some French or German scientific delegation is asking to have a conference at Oak Ridge anytime soon?

"OK, Do any of you frenchy frogs know who's nuclear trigger this is?"

"I've got seven dozen precision machined warhead casings here. They are machined to within .0002 thousandths. Hey Fritz, are you sure these are not yours?"

[Dog]

LOL!

[FreedomPoster]

>>Of course flying one o dem big o'l birds chocked fullo nuclear weapons materials is just okeee-dokey?

B-52s did it all the time for 30+ years.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Bingo, LIbya is the answer to all the liberal baiting about 'Where are the Iraq WMD's?'

Ask those foaming idiots if Libya would have ended its WMD program if we hadn't gone to war in Iraq. When they say 'yes', then ask them if they are aware that Libya didn't initiate contact with Britian about ending their WMD program until the day the Iraq war started.

That should shut them up, temporarily.