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2014-07-10 Iraq

Iraq tells U.N. that 'terrorist groups' seized nuclear materials

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-07-10 00:26|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Just remember folks, Iraq doesn't have anything like this, so it's all OK.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-07-10 07:15|| 2014-07-10 07:15|| Front Page Top

#2 More folks would be killed in the ensuing panic, Ms. Periwinkle, than from dirty-bomb radiation.

Which, I am sure, would be fine with the terrorists.

Posted by Bobby 2014-07-10 08:03|| 2014-07-10 08:03|| Front Page Top

#3 ..like a lower primate shouting, displaying his arms and genitals desperate to get some sort of hierarchical standing among the other creatures at the edge of the pack.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-10 10:35|| 2014-07-10 10:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Thank you, Mr. Bobby. That's the direction I was headed.

Incidentally, CNN has the following headline on the subject:

U.S. officials: Terrorist seizure of nuclear materials in Iraq of minimal concern

Posted by trailing wife 2014-07-10 11:36|| 2014-07-10 11:36|| Front Page Top

#5 I thought Carter did the most damage to the united states as president by shutting down HUMINT. I am now corrected. This Uranium, will find its way into a bomb, be it a dirty bomb or one to just terrorize and cripple a nation like the US or Israel. Not having the political will to come to a SOFA will be a poor excuse when we see a major city in terror. "When politicians fail, chaos wins".

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-07-10 12:26|| 2014-07-10 12:26|| Front Page Top

#6 First, TW, thank you for the yeoman work you've been doing.

Second... the news article you linked to from CNN reminds me of the following:

From Douglas Adams' Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul:

When a passenger check-in desk at Terminal Two, Heathrow Airport, shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame the usual people tried to claim responsibility. First the IRA, then the PLO and the Gas Board. Even British Nuclear Fuels rushed out a statement to the effect that the situation was completely under control, that it was a one in a million chance, that there was hardly any radioactive leakage at all and that the site of the explosion would make a nice location for a day out with the kids and a picnic, before finally having to admit that it wasn't actually anything to do with them at all.

I keep thinking one day Brooklyn or Baytown is going to be vaporized, and as the mushroom cloud is rising there are going to be newscasts saying "Authorities have said they're not sure of the cause, but they've already ruled out terrorism or other acts of war..."

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-07-10 13:02|| 2014-07-10 13:02|| Front Page Top

#7 ISIS did promise another Holocaust the other day.

Posted by mossomo 2014-07-10 13:13|| 2014-07-10 13:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Could a SCUD be used as a radiological dispersal device?

I don't know how practical/feasible this scenario would be: Load a SCUD up with uranium. Launch it at Tel Aviv. Then watch on as Iron Dome blows it up over the city. Geiger counters go off the charts while panic ensues.

Posted by mossomo 2014-07-10 13:39|| 2014-07-10 13:39|| Front Page Top

#9 How much of what isotope are these nuclear materials? Basic refined Uranium metal would be 99.25% U238, of negligible radioactive risk - in fact barely more radioactive than anti-tank projectiles.

Posted by Glenmore 2014-07-10 15:37|| 2014-07-10 15:37|| Front Page Top

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