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| Italian security services deny nuclear scenario |
| 2005-09-13 |
| Italian secret services deny there being reports referring to a plausible nuclear attack by Al Qaeda on Italian soil, thus contradicting indiscretions published by national daily La Stampa. The likelihood of nuclear of chemical attacks according to AGI sources has been assessed and scenarios submitted by US analysts this year have been reviewed by Italian intelligence. The reports submitted looked at 15 scenarios ranging from a basic suicide bomber attack, to nerve gas to a portable 10 kiloton nuclear weapon attack. According to sources "the scenarios were reviewed solely for the purposes of analysis and referred to case studies for North America". Intelligence experts also confirm that delivering and transferring a nuclear device of any kind, anywhere, is extremely difficult to keep under raps since radiation can be satellite-tracked. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #4 And gamma radiation is subject to inverse-square; you'd need a really hefty source to be detectable from orbit. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-09-13 08:47 |
| #3 The reports submitted looked at 15 scenarios ranging from a basic suicide bomber attack, to nerve gas to a portable 10 kiloton nuclear weapon attack. According to sources "the scenarios were reviewed solely for the purposes of analysis and referred to case studies for North America". In other words, the Italians think it won't happen in Italy because of credits taken for American security measures. Any evidence that Italy is implementing the SAME measures the US is? Intelligence experts also confirm that delivering and transferring a nuclear device of any kind, anywhere, is extremely difficult to keep under raps since radiation can be satellite-tracked. Bullshit: Plutonium and Uranium-235 are alpha and neutron emitters, which cannot go further than 50 meters max on a good day. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2005-09-13 05:26 |
| #2 "radiation can be satellite-tracked." - is that for real, i knew we could monitor radiation with portable tools and sht but from space! thats amazing if true. |
| Posted by: ShepUK 2005-09-13 05:15 |
| #1 Ya wanna mushrooms wita that? |
| Posted by: Captain America 2005-09-13 01:04 |