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2015-06-11 Terror Networks

Isis's dirty bomb: Jihadists have seized 'enough radioactive material to build their first WMD'

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Posted by Fred 2015-06-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 Militarily, these weapons are useless but if released in a Western city the cost would be enormous.

Posted by BernardZ 2015-06-11 09:34|| 2015-06-11 09:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Let's say that they have a dirty bomb and use said DB in a largish city like Rome or Athens or Paris.

What do you think the response of the squishy socialist left in the EU would do? What would they propose?

Posted by AlanC 2015-06-11 12:35|| 2015-06-11 12:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Back before I discovered Scientific American had a terminal case of Bush Derangement Syndrome, I read an article about the effects of a dirty bomb in Manhattan. Depending on the isotopes, some pretty expensive real estate would be uninhabitable for quite a few years.

But the deaths from the radioactive release would pale compared to the carnage from the panic.

I bet we'd find out how many liberal New Yorkers owned firearms!

Posted by Bobby 2015-06-11 13:17|| 2015-06-11 13:17|| Front Page Top

#4 What do you think the response of the squishy socialist left in the EU would do? What would they propose?

A boycott on Israeli products---since Jews invented atoms?*

*I know, I know, it was Democritus.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-06-11 14:16|| 2015-06-11 14:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Bankrupting one's enemy does provide a huge military advantage, does it not?

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2015-06-11 15:41|| 2015-06-11 15:41|| Front Page Top

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