Plot to Detonate "Dirty Bomb" Thwarted

[Captain Rooster]

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WASHINGTON, June 10 -

An al-Qaida plot to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" in the United States was foiled when a U.S. citizen was arrested in Chicago last month as he arrived on a flight from Pakistan, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Monday. The suspect indicated "some knowledge of the Washington, D.C., area," but the plot was disrupted before a target was decided upon, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz said later at a news conference.


Looks to me like the government must be doing something right. Thank God for dedicated men and women who keep us safe. If it weren't for these people, we'd all be sitting ducks for people who just want to rape, pillage and plunder. And I am not even going to mention what Pooter wants to do to us.

I hope the media and the left-wing bureaucrats realize that the institutions set to keep this country safe are doing a damn good job.

'Nuff said


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[Gvac]

It's going to be a damn sight more difficult for our FBI and CIA to continue cracking cases like this while there's a Federal Investigation going on.

Amazing the levels some politicians will stoop to.




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[blakjeezis]

Yeah, I read about this this morning. Goddamn that's some scary shit. We should all thank God that these people are willing to put there lives on the line to protect us. I belive the suspect in question was a convert to Islam. I read something about his name changing from, like John Smith, to Farid El Jazeez El Shabbaz, or some such nonsense.

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[Jobberific]

Yea, he changed hi name from Jose Pedilla to Mhammed al BLAHBLAHVLAH
God dam Puerto Ricans, if they aint stealin your hubcaps they're tryin to set off Dirty Bombs.



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[erole]

Uh oh, we better watch out for thta bad seed Ruben Rivera. SPY REPORT says he changed his name to Muhammed Al-Taake Urbat And if our brave and honored servents to this country can't stop him, Captain GVAC can. <P>
Good call Rooster, we should be very thankful of the men and women, and the men who like men, and the women who like women, and the women who like both, and the men who like both, and the few who like animals, that protect our country. (was that too p.c. leftist of me?) Imagine what Reagan would do to these bastards! He'd psych them out with some Cold War genetic laser beam from space that only kills terrorists. <P>

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[Butters]

I bet I could make a Dirty Bomb out of the stuff in my clothes hanper



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[furie]

this piece of shit should be
charged with teason

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NOw we gotta worry about Greasy Arab Converts?? Jesus! I mean, Blakjeezis!

Well, I'm glad that this happened. A lot of peopel were starting to forget, and thinking the gov. was just sitting on their hands. This is something to show us that they've been tracking these guys since 9/11.

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[Garfield]

If it weren't for these people, we'd all be sitting ducks for people who just want to rape, pillage and plunder.


Thank God these guys were doing their jobs.

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[A.J.]

As a DC resident I was VERY pleased to hear this plot was thwarted.

Unfortunately, the danger of similar threats is FAR from over...

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[wilee]

Think about how many of these get thwarted that we DONT hear about, or that "aren't newsworthy".

God Bless those who are dedicated to the safety of this country and her citizens.

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[blakjeezis]

From what i understand a 'Dirty Bomb' is a conventional bomb loaded with radioactive material, not to provide a reaction and subsequent explosion, only to pollute the surrounding area with toxic, radioactive nastiness.

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[ADF]

I detonated a dirty bomb this morning after a double espresso.

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[angrymissy]

From what i understand a 'Dirty Bomb' is a conventional bomb loaded with radioactive material, not to provide a reaction and subsequent explosion, only to pollute the surrounding area with toxic, radioactive nastiness.

BINGO - in Westchester where I live they are actually giving out these pills that protect you from thyroid cancer for 48 hours in case of nuclear fallout (I live about 10 miles from Indian Point, a large nuclear reactor). Of course that scares the hell outta me becuase it makes me think they know Indian Point will blow up. But the dirty bomb scenaro I think they said it would make like 30 city blocks uninhabitable, and the inpending panic of the residents would be the huge problem.

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[Garfield]

I detonated a dirty bomb this morning after a double espresso.

From what i understand a 'Dirty Bomb' is a conventional bomb loaded with radioactive material

This is gettin kinda ugly

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[angrymissy]

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A radioactive "dirty bomb" would be less devastating than a nuclear device but easier to create. Such a bomb would use conventional explosives to spread radioactive material over a small area - and spread panic far more widely, experts say. Even the reports of a dirty-bomb plot set off alarms Monday. And in an eerie coincidence, atomic watchdogs were searching for two radiation-powered generators from the Soviet era, devices that could provide raw material for a dirty bomb.
THE RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL inside a dirty bomb could be as deadly as the strontium-90 stored within the discarded generators, which are thought to lie within a remote 200-square-mile area of the former Soviet republic of Georgia. It could even involve spent fuel rods containing uranium or plutonium, somehow stolen from a nuclear plant.
But it would more likely take the form of radioactive cobalt-60 or cesium-137 - found in the low-level waste from medical or research labs, or welding shops and construction sites.
Last month, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission disclosed that it received an average of 300 reports a year of small amounts of radioactive materials missing from such sources.
"There are hundreds of thousands of these, and not all of them are accounted for," said John Pike, a weapons expert at GlobalSecurity.org.
Commission officials say they have no evidence of anyone collecting this material to have enough for a dirty bomb. But critics argue that no one is sure of that.





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Creating a dirty bomb, also known as a radiological bomb, would involve grinding the radioactive material into dust, then placing it within a device also containing conventional explosives - for example, dynamite stolen from a construction site. When the bomb is set off, the radioisotope could be dispersed as dust or vapor.
In an alternate scenario, the radioisotope would be burned covertly, slowly spreading the emissions. The "burning candle" might go undetected until people became ill.
Depending on the strength of a dirty-bomb blast and the potency of the radioactive material, an area the size of a subway station, several city blocks or many square miles could be contaminated.
The most visible damage would be done by the conventional explosives. In a letter responding to a recent inquiry from Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Richard Meserve downplayed the potential health impact from the radiation.
"A few closest to the explosion might inhale enough radioactive material to obtain internal radiation doses exceeding the (100-millirem) NRC annual limit for members of the public, but they would not be expected to experience any prompt or latent health effects as a result," Meserve said.



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In contrast, a crude nuclear bomb, in which there is a nuclear chain reaction, could kill tens of thousands of people over a 3-mile radius of the blast. Thousands more would suffer radiation poisoning from such an attack.
Still, the simple use of radioactive material with conventional explosives could hamper rescue work, create a cleanup problem and cause fear and public panic, experts say.
"I think that the fears would be absolutely enormous, dealing a devastating blow to the economy. ... Clearly, this would have superseded even the 9/11 attacks," Steven Emerson, an expert on counterterrorism, said on MSNBC cable.
In March, the Center for Strategic and International Studies led officials from the Washington area through a scenario that involve

[42nd-delay]

First off, let me say that I think our intellegence services have been a bit unfairly criticized. It's damn hard work, and I think they do an excellent job.

That said, I think the Bush administration's announcement that they had foiled a "dirty bomb" plot seems quite politcally motivated. From the news reports, you'd think that this guy was arrested over the weekend with dirty bomb in possession, when in fact he was arrested over a month ago, and is only suspected of possibly planning to make a dirty bomb. I'm not saying I'm not happy that they nabbed this guy, but I wish the Bush administration would stop bringing out this info, overemphasizing it and scaring us whenever they are in political hot water or want to push one of their policies through.

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[A.J.]

To supplement angrymissy's post, here is an article from today's Washington Post. Apparently, the psychological damage would be greater than physical damage....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28433-2002Jun10.html

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This message was edited by AJinDC on 6-11-02 @ 11:26 AM