AW: Al-Qaida may have nuclear weapons

["Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>]

RADSAFErs,



I really do appreciate the message of Gerry Blackwood and I support it for -

let's say 99 %. Unfortunately he will not be able to receive this message,

since he after a very heated debate recently announced that he has banned my

e-mail address from being received..



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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: Gerry Blackwood [mailto:gpblackwood@justice.com]

Gesendet: Freitag, 19. März 2004 14:49

An: hflong@pacbell.net

Cc: franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT; cfrey@ssi-group.net;

radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Betreff: Re: Al-Qaida may have nuclear weapons





Howard, I do not even know why i am going to reply to this and I

have to agree with our foreign friends here. This article was

written for the sake of taking up space and to spin stories for

US Public consumption. It's not factual at all. Now to your

points....Anthrax yes is nasty, but Saddam was and is not the

only one with it, matter of fact we are the biggest manufacture

of this agent as weaponized. The VX issue? Our stockpiles of

chemical and nerve agents here in the States make what was dumped

in the Euphrates look silly and we have leaching problems here as

well. Yes Saddam proved that he would use weapons like these.

While we sat by and not only watched but made sure he had more

weapon systems. By the way, the same can be said for our use of

the Bomb on Japan.

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It should read "bombs". It makes a difference.



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So if we are going to use WMDs to save the

lives of our troops, well we set the standard didn't we? Plainly

WE screwed up here the order of battle was taken out of order for

a political theology. That has not helped us on TWOT or with our

foreign allies which we do need and as Iraq has proven. Are we

any safer than we were? NO not at all.



Nuclear? North Korea, Iran, Israel, Saudi Arabia,

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I am rather sure, that three of these countries have no nuclear weapons, and

that at least one of them has not any infrastructure which would allow

development of a nuclear weapon even on long term.



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and a few

others who have them



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Which ones?



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, want them or are researching them need to

be dealt with while we cannot do away with Treaties such as the

NPT so we can build Star Wars and low yeild nuclears weapons. The

same goes for the smuggling of fissile materials and technology.

Again we set the standard.

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Deliberately not signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty is something

which has been heavily criticized by the international community.



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We need to be doing much better here and we are not. Sorry for

going off subject....... Gerry

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This is not off subject.



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Best regards,



Franz



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