[LibWhacker]

Well, I heard Osama got a bunch of de-coder ring nukes in a box of Crackerjacks.

(Actually, if this is true, or any variation on the theme is true, we should long ago have been threatening the Russians over it -- much as Pres. Kennedy himself did.)

[Diddle E. Squat]

Eat More Ovaltine

[pepsionice]

OK...if you and I wanted to make a cool $500k in less than a week...how would we do it? We go to Radio Shack and Briefcases R US, and we make a dandy-looking RB500 Nuke pack (we sprinkle some radioactive dust on the thing to make sure it does put off some juice when they check it out). We get a Russian buddy of ours to run off to Beirut and hint that he knows how to get a backpack nuke...and then we wait. A month passes, and then a phonecall...would we be interested in meeting? We meet in Italy, show off the backpack....discuss the deal....they pay the money and we go home.

I think a lot of KGB folks are smart enough to figure out the entire deal and get the parts to build a fine-outstanding nuke backpack...except it don't work. They are smart enough to know that giving Ossama the real thing would be real stupid, but these camel-idiots don't know the fake from the real thing...so why not pull the great hoax on them? If Ossama paid out $10 million for these nukes....then he got screwed over.