RE: dirty bomb

["Tony Harrison" <Tony.Harrison@state.co.us>]

No proof, but waiting for proof could be risky.  Consider:



Al-Qaeda Said To Be Still Operating In US

By Steve Macko, EmergencyNet News Managing Editor



NEW YORK CITY: According to CBS News, domestic intelligence collected

by the United States appears to show that the al-Qaeda network of Usama

bin Laden continues to operate on US soil. CBS reported on Thursday that

al-Qaeda operatives were to assist accused "dirty bomb" suspect Jose

Padilla once he returned from an overseas scouting mission. The helpers

included Palestinian-born Florida resident Adham Hassoun, who has been

detained since early June on immigration charges...



http://www.emergency.com/ennday.htm 





Tony Harrison, MSPH

Colorado Dept. of Public Health & Environment

Laboratory and Radiation Services Division

(303)692-3046

tony.harrison@state.co.us





>>> "Jacobus, John (OD/ORS)" <jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov> 06/28/02 09:02AM

>>>

I think the suggested use of radioactive material is much more

effective as

a terrorist weapon.  Look at all the traffic in the news and this list

alone

that has discussed the issue.  We are spending massive amounts of money

on

radiation detection equipment.  Yet there has not been any proof that

radioactive material has ever been diverted by terrorists.   Resources

should be spent on intelligence gathering to determine what they are

doing,

not what we think they are going to do.



Get a grip on it.



-- John 

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist 

3050 Traymore Lane

Bowie, MD  20715-2024



E-mail:  jenday1@email.msn.com (H)      



-----Original Message-----

From: BERNARD L COHEN [mailto:blc+@PITT.EDU] 

Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 9:28 AM

To: J. J. Rozental

Cc: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu 

Subject: Re: dirty bomb





	How about terrorists dispersing a poison gas into the

ventilation

system of large buildings, or into a basketball arena. They could kill

a

lot more people that way, and a lot faster.

. . .

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