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2004-02-04 India-Pakistan

Nuke plans link Libyan bomb project to Abdul Qadeer Khan

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-02-04 12:14:35 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 With these revelations about Libya, Iran and North Koreas nuke programs, I wonder if it is time to take more seriously the reports of Pakistan and Saudi Arabiamaking a deal on sharing nuclear technology?

Posted by Paul Moloney 2004-2-4 12:44:59 AM|| 2004-2-4 12:44:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 No Paul, that may scare the children. Let the UN worry about all that. It's all Tits and Ass for now.

Posted by Lucky 2004-2-4 12:51:11 AM|| 2004-2-4 12:51:11 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Man would sure be interesting to see Nukes in Syria, Saudi and Egypt ... all around Israel.

Posted by Faisal 2004-2-4 8:13:06 AM|| 2004-2-4 8:13:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Only the Saudi's can afford 'em. The nukes also require a certain amount of maintenance.....

Posted by Shipman 2004-2-4 8:48:41 AM|| 2004-2-4 8:48:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Does a nuclear blast count as the re-Islamification of Jerusalem?

Posted by floatinginspace 2004-2-4 9:04:47 AM|| 2004-2-4 9:04:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Man would sure be interesting to see Nukes in Syria, Saudi and Egypt ... all around Israel.

Children can't be allowed to play with matches Faisal. That's why every last one of those countries will be destroyed. Or don't you get that yet?

Posted by Anonymous 2004-2-4 9:18:33 AM|| 2004-2-4 9:18:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 "Nukes in Syria, Saudi and Egypt"

And just what do you think would happen to these countrys if one of them decided to pop a nuke in Israel,Dear Faisal?

I predict that:
1)Cairo would be radioactive rubble.
2)Damascus would be a sheet of radioactive glass.
3)Riyad would be a radioactive,smoking hole.

Posted by Raptor 2004-2-4 9:20:54 AM|| 2004-2-4 9:20:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 sure be interesting to see Nukes in Syria, Saudi and Egypt ...

No problem, I'm sure we can arrange that. Do you want surface strikes or air bursts? How about we super size that order, no charge.

Posted by Steve 2004-2-4 9:22:32 AM|| 2004-2-4 9:22:32 AM|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Dar 2004-2-4 9:43:32 AM|| 2004-2-4 9:43:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Pass enough nukes around the region and eventually one will end up hitting somewhere we love. We gotta squeeze'em hard this Spring!

Posted by CobraCommander 2004-2-4 10:14:28 AM|| 2004-2-4 10:14:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Poor Faisal. Whatever he is, he suffers from cognitus interruptus - limited to one tiny thought at a time without regard to consequential realities. Also known as brain farts. The condition is often terminal.

Posted by .com 2004-2-4 10:14:40 AM|| 2004-2-4 10:14:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Would you like your salad in a Roentgen Soupbowl, Faisal? Owning some of these little plutonium monsters is not just a power trip. With folks like the Mullahcrocy in Iran, making threats toward Israel, while rattling your missles could be your death warrant.

I used to work out out at the Nevada Atomic Test Site. I can assure you that these weapons are not toys.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-2-4 11:38:31 AM|| 2004-2-4 11:38:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 "Man would sure be interesting to see Nukes in Syria, Saudi and Egypt ..."

-would be interesting to see them blow themselves up. Those stupid idiots are too inept to launch one off effectively.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-2-4 12:32:50 PM|| 2004-2-4 12:32:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Well you see Israel is not very big. Doesn't take too many nukes to turn Israel into glass. Forget about the rest. You can keep on nuking whatever cities you want after that but the thing is that Israel will be history in case such an event ever occurs.

.com you are a pussy fart --- that's all i can tell.

I do agree with Shipman that a nuke in hands of any of these countries is too dangerous.

Posted by Faisal 2004-2-4 1:56:20 PM|| 2004-2-4 1:56:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 So Faisal, read enough?

Once you know that your potential foe has nuclear weapons, the tempation to hit first is very strong - you may be talking about national survival. For a country the size of Israel even more so. Read up on the "Sunday Punch" doctrine by Curtis le May, or "launch on warning" and of course MAD to see what new delights await todays up and coming newly nuclear armed nation.

What about the Indo-Pak situation? three wars since independance (1947-48, 1965, and 1971). Lots and lots of rhetoric and a low intensity bleeding war in the Kashmir. They're not really friends. Once they both get nukes they do a lot of sabre-rattling, realise how close they are to armageddon, shit themselves and back off.

Now, let's try that with Syria, Saudi and Egypt - three states known for their excellent diplomatic relations with Israel (sarcasm).

If any of those countries get nuclear weapons, the status quo in the ME changes, and I'm betting it won't be in the Arab states favour.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2004-2-4 2:00:59 PM|| 2004-2-4 2:00:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Depending on which way the wind is blowing, what makes you think only Israel will suffer?

But it also does take care of the Pali issue for the Arabs. Then they wouldn't have to be bothered by them.

Hmmm, 2 for the price of 1, plus it's not like the surrounding countries really care about their people. Would be interesting if it did come to that, where their leaders would be when the button was pushed? Oh, wait, phrawnce.

Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-2-4 2:38:15 PM|| 2004-2-4 2:38:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 It doesn't do the Muslims any good to destroy Israel. Their Judgement Day can't happen until they re-occupy the Holy Land (and the Prophet Jesus comes back to dish out Allah's justice). I don't think there is a Hadith justifying the total destruction of Jerusalem. If they go ahead and do it, then they're apostates for going against the will of Allah.

Posted by floatinginspace 2004-2-4 2:45:26 PM|| 2004-2-4 2:45:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 "pussy fart"???
LOL! That's, uh, brilliant for someone of your severely ~~circumcised~~ circumscribed mental abilities, Faisal. I salute you! It makes no fucking sense and you make no case, but hey, for you to brain fart again so soon after the last must've given your cranial colon spasms of neural apoplexy. Prolly had to sit down to recover! And all for me. Woohoo!

BTW, on topic, if Israel does someday become a sheet of glass, Muslim genocide immediately follows. Doesn't matter where you are, what skirt / burqa you hide behind or label or rock you hide under, someone will take your swarthy ass out. I assure you I will be there when we turn the lights out on Islam forever. So rant your best "It's the JOOOOOS fault!" rant, little one - and pray to your pip-squeak Little Mo that none of the various Mad Mullah Morons ever does get the chance to nuke Israel.

Apparently you're too dense (leaded vapors, perhaps, emitted in those BF's?) to catch on to the fact that their continued survival is all that stands between you and your ilk's annihilation. Personally, I hope we just go ahead and pre-emptively wipe you out.

Nothing personal, old boy, and all that rot, but you've been identified as a human pathogen and we only need to freeze a couple of samples for the Level IV guys at Ft Detrick... the rest of you are forfeit.

Posted by .com 2004-2-4 6:19:19 PM|| 2004-2-4 6:19:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Well you see Israel is not very big. Doesn't take too many nukes to turn Israel into glass.
Well, Faisal, I think I know a lot more about nukes than you do. Because I do, I know you lose.
Nukes generate one HELL of an Electro-Magnetic Pulse. As a result, you either have to shield each warhead (adds to dead weight, reduces throw weight), or you have to ensure that each one explodes at the very same nanosecond as the others, or you have to have them spaced far enough apart in arrival time not to be affected by the previous blast. That gives Israel time enough to retaliate - which means those nasty Masada missiles start raining down on Damascus, Beirut, Riyadh, Jedda, Mecca, Medina, Cairo, Aswan, and a few dozen other places. THOSE are all far enough spaced out that Israel doesn't have to worry about the timing problem.

Oh, and there is this little thing called "time" that plays he$$ with nukes, too. You see, nuke material is radioactive. That means that there's particle decay taking place. Too much particle decay, and your weapon doesn't go boom, it kinda goes PFXXZZZZZZTTT, releases a lot of low-level radiation, and messes up a neighborhood or two. It takes constant maintenance and frequent re-manufacturing, usually in an excessively strict clean-room environment, or you've got a Chinese firecracker, not a nuclear weapon.

Of course, all the Saudi princes in Europe, living high on the hog (literally), wining and dining, and enjoying all those European women, gambling at Monte Carlo - they may survive. They'll be instantly poor, but they'll survive.

Where will your little a$$ be?

Posted by Old Patriot 2004-2-4 6:57:27 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2004-2-4 6:57:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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