Posted on 09/12/2002 10:15:38 AM PDT by Brytani
Fox News just broke in with an alert. Special Op's are now searching a Liberian flagged ship 8 miles off the coast of NJ looking for nuclear material. More information to follow.
Sooner or later we are going to have to quarantine the Muslim Islamikazi world from the civilized world.
Is it blasphemous to suggest that Clinton would assist terrorists in smuggling a nuke into the country if he thought it would increase his stature or wealth in some way?
The cargo was loaded into bouyed watertight cannisters for later pickup by Palestinean "fishing vessels".
I agree, however, I think they will make demands first, holding a major city hostage, but these demands will not be, wont be met, at which point they will detonate a device....
Only if your not trying to "kill yourself" in Iraq.
A word we need to teach every American:
This is the use of intermediaries to prevent the actual instigator of an action from being discovered, as in "Al Qaueda was used as a cutout for Saddam Hussein".
C'mon, he was just laundering money...
The amount of shielding needed depends on what is being shielded. Lead blocks most things, and an ordinary lead apron used by lab x-ray technicians would block a lot.
Most radiation from non-weapon sources is alpha, beta, or gamma radiation, with gamma the most powerful and least common. Finding this kind of radiation would not be particularly alarming.
Neutrons are a different story. They are most often associated with fissile materials (meaning they can be split, and go BOOM!). Detecting neutrons is a very big deal.
The amount of neutron emission from enough fissionable material to start a chain reaction is remarkably small unless the material is brought close enough together to start a chain reaction. That happens only when the weapon is set off.
Neutrons can be absorbed by lead, but materials like cadmium are usually used instead (such as control rods in nuclear reactors).
The amount of shielding needed would depend on how "hot" the material being shielded was. (Generally, you need less than the public tends to think.)
My nuke experience is 20 years old, and I don't know how sensitive our detection capability is now. Hence, I have no way to estimate exactly how much shielding would block detection at any given range. I doubt the feds are giving that info out, and it would depend on what was being shielded anyway.
However, I certainly know the basics. I am extremely interested in finding out if neutron emissions were detected. I would also like to know what was meant by "fluctuating" levels of radiation, and what the suspicious noises from the hold were.
If anyone can confirm that neutron emissions were detected, that would be huge.
Purification ritual?
Also found: a CD player playing the song "Wash Like an Egyptian"
You may be correct, however, we already know who the bad guys are, and have known from a long while. To appear human, and to gain world support, they may make demands, demands that cannot be met. Like when we nuked Hiroshima, and demanded surrender, once that wasn't met, we nuked Nagasaki.
Their Hiroshima has already occured, WTC.
But again, you may be correct, as we are dealing with fanatics, beyond what the Japanese brought to the table.
DAMN! There (potentially) goes another collaborator. Why, oh why, are our own people leaking this stuff to the press? This should have been, "good work by customs," or "we got lucky," period. But, no, because some self-important idiot wanted to show off his insider knowledge, we may not have any intelligence warning the next time.
Are the NJ FBI Raid and the NJ Ship inspection linked? The Federal boys sure are not sharing the spotlight with the LEOs - they were left completely out of this loop. Something's moving fast around in NJ/NY...
jriemer
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