Posted on 11/16/2001 1:11:24 PM PST by blam
I think there was a BBC (not sure) report on the 12/13th of November, just as Kabul fell. In the report, NA soldiers took the reporters to a Kabul house that was full of documents, bombs, mines, guns, etc. One of the documents had a business card attached to it, the company was CANADIAN and was in the flight simulator business. The person's name was islamic but I didn't catch the company name. Anyone happen to have/seen this clip??
If it were a realistic possibility, it would be nothing to joke about. But I believe the chances that OBL has a workable device are quite remote.
That's my studied opinion. I hope I am right.
Clymer Post?
I would guess you are profoundly frustrated over the failure of the West to collapse at the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2000. Hope springs eternal.
That is my concern. If he truely does have access to millions of dollars, there are countries that have what he would need and would sell to him in a nano-second.
You can also depend on something being planned VERY different from anything he says.
While our attention is on ObL what is Iraq doing? They need to be watched very carefully.
OK, this proves it, reporters are just stupid. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were about 15Kt, not 1t. And I doubt these suitcase nukes would be .5t. IIRC, our smallest tacticals are about .5 Kt.
If these suitcase nukes really are .5t, then... BIG F'N DEAL! OOO, they might get to put another SMALL HOLE in the side of a FRIGATE! We're DOOMED!
This is backwards. The plutonium-239 is arrayed in sub-critical segments around a beryllium/polonium pellet. The entire assembly is encased in a tamper that, in the Nagasaki bomb was made from U-238.
The conventional explosive segments -- TNT in Fat Man -- that drive the plutonium toward the core have to be detonated within a few nanoseconds of each other. The entire reaction from trigger to fission to explosion requires only about 560 nanoseconds.
Yep.
Saddam is now MUCH MORE dangerous;
he HAS the Nukes and other WMDs.
This is merely information they left behind and made a half-*ssed effort to destroy. They don't care if we know and they know that we know anyhow. The Pakistani nuclear scientist are the key.
Surrey business card found in Kabul
Salim Jiwa
The Province
Wednesday, November 14, 2001
The discovery of documents in the Afghanistan home of a member of al-Qaida -- Osama bin Laden's terror group -- has renewed interest among U.S. intelligence agencies in the activities of two former Surrey residents.
Reports from Kabul yesterday said journalists found a business card containing the Surrey address and the name Amr Mohamed Hamed in a home abandoned by a member of al-Qaida. Also discovered was the address of a company identified as 4-U-Enterprises Ltd. on 135th Street in Surrey.
The ransacked Kabul hideout also contained documents relating to flight training and flight simulation. It is not clear whether the training documents are linked to Hamed or his business partner and fellow terrorist Essam Hafez Marzouk, who also lived in Surrey prior to mid-1998.
A 1999 Province investigation found that Marzouk was a trainer for bin Laden and had lived in Surrey before his arrest in Egypt after being linked to the terror group Al Jihad. He was sentenced to 15 years of hard labour.
Muslim community sources told The Province at the time that Hamed was killed in a bin Laden camp when then U.S. president Bill Clinton unleashed a hail of cruise missiles on al-Qaida bases in retaliation for the East African embassy bombings in 1998.
Hamed and Marzouk were listed as directors of 4-U-Enterprises Ltd. when the company was founded in April 1998, shortly before the two left Canada.
Canadian authorities have conducted an exhaustive investigation of both Marzouk and Hamed and their friends but have yet to find any links to any terrorist plots in Canada.
A BBC reporter who entered the home in Kabul found Hamed's business card among other documents.
sjiwa@pacpress.southam.ca
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