Re: ABC's Depleted Uranium Smuggling Article

[maury <maury@webtexas.com>]

Brian Keele wrote:

Can we please not post detection capabilities of portal

monitors to the internet.  Terrorists or adversaries ....

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The following link and snippet from the associated article

are offered to any who are concerned that Radsafe or

other such venues might reveal deadly secrets to terrorists.

Those who read this Debka article will find an intriguing

account of the ideas being used to carry out and to frustrate

terrorist suicide bombings. Amazing ....  Yes, 'all things are

possible' but surely some are less possible than others.



There are well educated, highly dedicated people among terrorist

groups as well as among their opponents on our

side.  These folks work full time to achieve their ends and

the likelihood that an afternoon of thought might achieve

some masterful stroke seems hardly worth worrying about.

As with all areas of human endeavor, ideas are a dime a

dozen; the work and tenacity to implement ideas are not

easily found -- in fact, those qualities are rare.



If you have ideas about measures and counter-measures,

(I think) they should be shared widely. Just make sure they

are shared here as well as 'there'. These are partial reasons why

liberty works and closed societies fail.



May all of you have a fulfilling new year,



Maury&Dog         maury@webtexas.com

_________

It is an equal opportunity world; all have the opportunity to

die for whatever they believe in.



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http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=752





"Assassinations Integral to al Qaeda’s Terror Agenda



DEBKAfile Updates DEBKA-Net-Weekly 139



December 28, 2003, 7:47 PM (GMT+02:00)



  Twice lucky



Al Qaeda’s determined assassination attempts on Pakistani president

Pervez Musharraf on December 14 and again on

the 25th bring to mind an ominous sequence that preceded

the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 on New York

and Washington. Two days earlier, on September 9, al

Qaeda assassins murdered Ahmad Shah Massoud,

semi-legendary leader of the Northern Alliance in

Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden and his chief lieutenant, Dr Ayman

Zawahiri, sent a group of suicide bombers to pose

as journalists and kill Massoud while pretending to interview

him. A bomb hidden in either a belt or a television camera detonated

and killed the opposition leader, famous for his

role in the campaign to drive the Red Army out of the

country in the late 1980s and with a good chance of ousting

the Taliban-al Qaeda regime.



The Afghan hero’s assassination turned out to have been a pre-emptive

tactic of al Qaeda’s for wiping out America’s

chief ally in Afghanistan and so undercutting the Bush

administration’s retaliatory resources in advance of its

horrendous airborne suicide strikes in the United States.



In December 2003, Osama bin Laden looked as though he

was repeating his pre-9/11 ploy against President

Musharraf – except that this time, he did not pull it off.

Western nations under threat fortified themselves with

preventive measures to fend off a major terror strike in

the holiday season, while at the same time forearming the

Pakistani president with the latest protective gadgetry.

This episode has important applications also for Israel’s

defenses against terror.



Sunday, December 28, Pakistani information minister,

Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, identified two of the suicide

bombers who failed to murder Musharraf as belonging to Kashmiri and

Afghan militant groups – the little known

Kashmiri Al Jehad and Pakistan’s North Western Frontier Province which

borders on Afghanistan.



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