Article

2004-11-22 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Binny seeks nuke on Russian black market

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Dan Darling 2004-11-22 4:59:53 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "He always said it was a religious obligation for Muslims to have the same weapons as their enemies"

I guess swords and sheilds are not in fashion any more. Allah be praised , we can go 'boom' bigger and better than before.

Posted by MacNails 2004-11-22 6:47:21 AM|| 2004-11-22 6:47:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Wouldn't Scheuer be leading the hosannas if the "great" "admirable" Osama actually succeeded?

Posted by someone 2004-11-22 7:16:19 AM|| 2004-11-22 7:16:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Hopefully binny will use it and give us the excuse to nuke Saudi, Pakland, Malaysia, Java and Chechenya and the North of Suday too. And throw in Iran, Syria and North Korea for bargain tuesdays.

Posted by Anon1 2004-11-22 9:21:13 AM|| 2004-11-22 9:21:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Another reason why OFF and France-Russia's shredding of the sanctions regime had completely destroyed any chance of containing Saddam: OFF put Saddam in close touch with intermediaries who work hand in glove with the Russian mafiya and rogue government elements, including the FSB. Note that the Russian mafiya's favorite money-laundering center, Dubai, figures prominently in many of the OFF money transfers.

Is there really any doubt that sooner or later Saddam would have been able to tap the Former SovUnion's WMD caches?

Posted by lex 2004-11-22 11:03:00 AM|| 2004-11-22 11:03:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Sorry to repeat myself, folks, but Russia today is a failing state that needs far more attention than we're giving it. Insane that we continue to waste so much time on western Europe when we have another version of Pakistan's ISI developing to the north of Iraq-Iran.

Posted by lex 2004-11-22 11:04:52 AM|| 2004-11-22 11:04:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 but Russia today is a failing state that needs far more attention than we're giving it.

As long as Russia succeeding means tyrannies in Ukraine, in Belarus, in Transnistria, in Abkhazia, in Southern Ossetia, then I'll be wishing for Russia to fail.

I'll take my chances with the nukes.

Posted by Aris Katsaris 2004-11-22 11:29:14 AM|| 2004-11-22 11:29:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 You're stuck in the 1990s, Aris. Different world now: NATO's eastward expansion has pretty much ruled out any neo-soviet threat to western Europe. Tyrannies in the other basket-case FSU dominions suck, I agree, but let's be realistic here: the Baltics, Pol-Cz-Hun are free and protected; Estonia's firmly ensconced in the EU. That alone is an extraordinary achievement. But we also have Romania and Bulgaria under NATO protection, with US bases, which means there simply is no entry point for a revived Russian tyranny to attack or intimidate Europe.

We'll never sort out the Caucasus mess, and probably won't see anything like democracy in Central Asia for another generation or more. Big deal. The keys here are twofold: containing Iran, and halting nuclear etc proliferation. Everthing else regarding Russia is secondary.

Posted by lex 2004-11-22 11:39:01 AM|| 2004-11-22 11:39:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I'll take my chances with the nukes

so much for caring for the world aris :p

Posted by MacNails 2004-11-22 2:31:37 PM|| 2004-11-22 2:31:37 PM|| Front Page Top

00:06 josephmendiola
00:05 Floting Granter5198
23:59 Mike Sylwester
23:52 mojo
23:50 .com
23:48 3dc
23:42 mojo
23:32 lex
23:29 Mike Sylwester
23:22 Mike Sylwester
23:22 someone
23:21 someone
23:11 PBMcL
23:02 Frank G
23:00 Alaska Paul
22:57 Wo
22:56 Poison Reverse
22:53 Poison Reverse
22:41 Dishman
22:37 Frank G
22:36 Frank G
22:35 JosephMendiola
22:31 Darth VAda
22:31 Alaska Paul