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Re: Al-Qaida may have nuclear weapons
I think we want to discount this because it's just too far from our
normal frame of reference. In this we are no different from the general
public. We are basically optimistic; we believe that things will go
well for us and our families, that normality will continue because it
always has. So we put the idea of nuclear detonations on American soil
out of our minds, and we don't pressure the government to fund and
properly prioritize programs to control "loose nukes" etc. I guess we
assume that the government is taking care of us, doing all it can. But
is it?
Charly Frey wrote:
> the future will show us
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Franz Schoenhofer
> To: Charly Frey ; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 2:41 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
> Betreff: Al-Qaida may have nuclear weapons
>
> 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.
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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
>