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2004-09-26 Britain
UK police arrest suspects seeking to procure dirty bomb materials
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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-09-26 12:25:34 AM|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Red Mercury? Hahaha, there's no such thing. These terrorists are barking up the wrong tree (thankfully). Red Mercury is an urban legend. I wish I had more citations, but evidently some goobers made a children's computer game with the title "Red Mercury" and clogged up all the google results with it.
Posted by gromky 2004-09-26 12:35:28 AM||   2004-09-26 12:35:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 But Gromky, was my mom's thermometer just a hoax? :-}
Posted by Super Hose 2004-09-26 1:11:47 AM||   2004-09-26 1:11:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 The red stuff in that thermometer was alcohol.
Posted by Fawad 2004-09-26 1:14:44 AM||   2004-09-26 1:14:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Red Mercury is a Russian code name for an ingredient used in nuclear weapons, and is often involved in arms trafficking scams.

This is from the CSIS (Canadien intel org)

http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/eng/comment/com57_e.html

That article doesn't specifiy if it's radioactive, but it doesn't look that way. What's scary is the intent. We don't know if the money was real (they could just kill the dealer for it), but since they got four guys in custody, we know Padilla wasn't just an isolated incident. If their intent to buy was legitimate, the threat level is now higher.

Times are desparate for terrorists. With W willing to attack them around the world, they may decide to preempt the laser-guided missle that has their name on it and sneak one in here first.

Let's hope the real stuff stays in the right hands. Iran must be stopped.
Posted by Anonymous6648 2004-09-26 1:57:15 AM||   2004-09-26 1:57:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 I had a quick shifty at the News of the World in the local Newsagent and they were ranting about a Saudi connection to this. I fthese are British citizens with dual nationality then either lock 'em up or kick 'em out - I don't think this will stand up in court as the story's all over th papers and is's a classic News of the World sting.
Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-26 6:33:30 AM||   2004-09-26 6:33:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Waht, with the Muslim Council of britain flying senior members to Iraq to help free the Brit hostage and a muslim undercover reporter trapping these guys, my view of UK muslims is beginning to change (slowly).
Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-26 6:35:59 AM||   2004-09-26 6:35:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 In the comments section at LGF there is a very good description of how the Red Mercury urban legend started; you can see it here.
Posted by Phil Fraering 2004-09-26 7:24:57 AM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]  2004-09-26 7:24:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 "my view of UK muslims is beginning to change (slowly)."
Howard, I'm not so sure about this. I don't know about the reporter, but the Muslim council is hardly showing the sense of urgency required by the situation. Ten days after the kidnapping and these guys drift over there spouting platitudes about how they are going to try to appeal to the clerics and the kidnappers' sense of compassion. [Er... what was that again?? Possibly I didn't hear that correctly.]
I don't really buy it. How can you tell that I've had it with these Muslims??
Posted by Bryan 2004-09-26 7:34:56 AM||   2004-09-26 7:34:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Veery slowly... but it is the first time they've got off their arses and acted responsibly rather than bitching from the sidelines and blaming Blair. Rather cynically I believe they're terrified of the possibility of a backlash against the Muslim community in the UK that Bigley's murder may prompt. Hell, it's a start.
Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-26 7:40:35 AM||   2004-09-26 7:40:35 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Red Mercury is a code name for Green Krytonite.
Posted by Shipman 2004-09-26 7:44:31 AM||   2004-09-26 7:44:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 "Hell, it's a start."
True. I suppose if one can weed out all the self-interest there might just possibly be some genuine attempt there to behave like human beings.

"Green Kryton?" Krypton? It's been a while since I read a Superman comic. Like decades.
Posted by Bryan 2004-09-26 8:13:40 AM||   2004-09-26 8:13:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Did they intend becoming Muslim superheroes? Out to aid the community at large - flying through the sky in tights to help any citizen in distress? Very public spirited. I'm impressed - give it to them.
Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-26 8:14:00 AM||   2004-09-26 8:14:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 I don't know if you saw the thin guy with the beard - the one with the stupid grin. Maybe he's the Muslim equivalent of - whatsisname - Clark Kent?
Watch Koran Khaled transform himself into Supermahmoud.
Posted by Bryan 2004-09-26 8:25:32 AM||   2004-09-26 8:25:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 The one on the front of the NOTW? A likely candidate to me! I bet he's enjoying his first dose of the giggle juice.'Hey I'll tell you everything mwahahahaha!' Thwack.
Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-26 8:33:54 AM||   2004-09-26 8:33:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 lol Bryan, I too have seen the 'Buck toothed Messenger of Allan, oh how i laughed at thier pathetic jesture, a party of 2 people going there to have a party if you ask me, dont let em back in.
Posted by Shep UK 2004-09-26 11:03:15 AM||   2004-09-26 11:03:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 That one... the buck-toothed geezer. A beauty!

Come on Shep, give em a chance to show willing before driving em into the sea.

/irony
Posted by Howard UK 2004-09-26 11:21:14 AM||   2004-09-26 11:21:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 Link to photo of Buck Toothed Messenger of Allan someone, please. Some of us are missing out here!
Posted by Bulldog  2004-09-26 11:22:40 AM||   2004-09-26 11:22:40 AM|| Front Page Top

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