Re: Al-Qaida may have nuclear weapons

["Howard Long" <hflong@pacbell.net>]

Saddam did have 10,000 liters of anthrax spores, enough to wipe out most of the people in the world, in the 1990's (reportedly confirmed by UN inspectors). 

Is it now in some desert spider hole? 



Saddam's VX (see movie "Alcatraz") was reportedly deliverable enough that our troops could not wait until T 120  F, and death from heat exhaustion in their chemical suits, before protecting oil wells and dams to prevent disaster worse than his prior destruction of the marsh Arabs.



Saddam's generals now say their neighboring troops had WMD and growing nuclear bomb capacity (aided by German and Russian and French recipients of "oil for food" money, paid to veto removal of his regime).



What WMD "fairy tale", Franz? I prefer the Boy Scout motto, "Be Prepared".

Physicist Sam Cohen presented the case for suitcase nuclear devices enabled by "red mercury", to Doctors for Disaster Preparedness (incl. Edward Teller, who dismissed it) in 1995. Even if odds are 10/1 it is fabrication, is the price of error acceptable?



Howard Long

  

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

  From: Franz Schoenhofer 

  To: Charly Frey ; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu 

  Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:41 PM

  Subject: AW: Al-Qaida may have nuclear weapons







    -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

    Von: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu [mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]Im Auftrag von Charly Frey

    Gesendet: Montag, 09. Februar 2004 21:01

    An: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

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    Al-Qaida may have nuclear weapons





    Sunday 08 February 2004, 22:05 Makka Time, 19:05 GMT  





    A pan-Arab newspaper has said al-Qaida bought tactical nuclear weapons from Ukraine in 1998 and is storing them in safe places for possible use. 







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    You do not reveal the source of this message, nor the "pan-Arab newspaper". Just another example of hearsay of hearsay. The sources of more hearsay are either not mentioned or are far from any reliability - Lebed for instance, who played a very queer role in Russian politics. 



    I refer to Jaros comment on this article. There are much more shortcomings, which I do not want to touch, because it is a waste of time.



    Overall this message comes very close or even exceeds the fairy tales about the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction before the Iraq war. The difference is that it comes from "somewhere", some unidentified newspaper.



    Franz