Weapons Grade Uranium Seized 155 mi from Iraq border

Just love reading stuff like this. What a wonderful nice new thing we can all worry about. I certainly hope they can get some info from these guys.

Could the Uranium be heading to......


SATAN!?!?!?!


Isn't that special?

 

155 miles away??? the suspects were all Turks??? all of the 09/11 terrorists were Yemeni or Saudi??? It's time to fight Iraq!!!

 

With all due respect, I think you forgot to make the obvious connection...Not only does the whole Turk/Yemeni/Saudi link cry out Iraq, but it just as clearly leads directly to North Korea...

 

And the Uranium was made in W Germany

 

rotfl. As we're drawing the line that includes all of these points, don't forget if you turn left at Alberquerqe and head North for a while, you'll eventually link up with the crazies in Montana.

 

Figures

 

you do know that if you take a wrong turn at Albuquerque you'll end up crossing into the Over-Militarized Drug War Zone.

 

Bugs Bunny always took a wrong turn at Albuquerke and always got himself into some violent situation!

 

Well Glory B....Just when W needs some smoking gun evidence to build an Intl coalition, a miraculous stroke of luck befalls him!! Now he gets a free season pass at Six Flags Baghdad!

And by the way Heb, be wery wery quiet...dere's black gold in dem dere Iraqi hills

 

This does sound awfully convenient.

 

I'm sure Bush is planting weapons grade uranium out there so he can pick a fight.

 

Achebe - I've come up with a new plan. Lets not be cautious at all, and expect no bad things to happen ever.

Then, we wait for a US city to be blown up by a nuclear bomb.

THEN, and only then, do we take action.

Sound good? That way we can avoid stepping on anybody's toes.

 

That's called TIMING.

 

Nomar, I can always shoot everyone that I meet, just to bypass any potential conflict. I could punch the reverend for smiling at me funny. We can drop bombs on everyone outside of our borders to forego future conflict.

Or we can at least appear to act rationally, so we don't incur the wrath of the rest of the entire planet (many countries, btw, have nuclear weapons... many countries aren't going to let you or John Wayne, or Napoleon, or anyone else play tough guy).

You appear to say, well... if Jesus turns the other cheek, I'll punch him on that side of the face too! By simply appearing to act judiciously, the US will get the support of the rest of the world. The rest of the world sees Sadaam as a problem. And hopefully the rest of the world can view the US as something worthy of respect... hopefully we don't throw all of that away in a moment of bravado...

But *poof* the CIA contradicts the president, but all of a sudden 007 has found something, or *poof*, we needed a link to alqaeda and now we have one (that the CIA discounts; geez those politicians are smarter than the analysts), or *poof* we want nuclear, here's some nuclear material...

these things just don't convey that sense of immediacey where I join you guys in fantasy war gen and decide that thousands of Americans will go die in Iraq.

 

I think several on the BBS underestimate the economic state of those in Eastern Europe and the poor security of nuclear material:

<A HREF="http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/09/27/37350.html">Sensation: Chernobyl Uranium On Sale</A>


So, I am not surprised that smugglers had gotten that close to Iraq with uranium.

 

This is one of the funniest responses I've read in a while and at least deserves a

 

Just to be clear, it's not known yet whether this Uranium is weapons-grade or not, nor is the destination known (they were much closer to the Syrian border than Iraq). They hope to know more by Monday.

(edit: well, as of last night, it was not known. the CNN article now says it was weapons-grade, although the tests weren't supposed to be complete until Monday, so I'm not sure what happened there)

 

Well it sure was great timing! I wouldn't be surprised if this mysterious tip off to Turkish officials was initiated through US intelligence. I also won't be surprised when we get a mysterious defection of an Iraqui scientist here in the near future talking about Saddam's weapons capabilities.

 

Well so much for the 33lbs bit and they let the two men go pending trial.


Turkish Police Say Seized Uranium Weighs 5 Ounces
Sun Sep 29,12:33 PM ET

DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) - A Turkish police official said on Sunday the amount of uranium recently seized by officers was around 5 ounces and did not weigh 33 lbs as initially reported.

The state-run Anatolian news agency on Saturday reported that paramilitary police in the southern province of Sanliurfa detained two men after discovering 15 kg of uranium in a lead container hidden beneath a taxi car seat.

But that amount had included the weight of the container and the radioactive material was actually around 140 grams, an official from the gendarmes force in Sanliurfa said on condition of anonymity.

The International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna was also skeptical because the amount previously reported would have been enough to make a nuclear bomb, spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told Reuters on Sunday.

The Turkish official said the weapons-grade uranium was seized on Friday after police stopped the vehicle on a road in Sanliurfa, which borders Syria and is about 155 miles from the Iraqi border.

The incident comes at a time of heightened tension between the United States and Iraq, accused by Washington of developing weapons of mass destruction.

President Bush ( news - web sites) claims Baghdad has tried to acquire uranium to develop a nuclear bomb as his administration works to build international support for a military operation to oust Iraqi President Saddam Hussein ( news - web sites).

The IAEA also questioned the contents because the word uranium was spelled in a strange way on the container, which itself was made in West Germany, Fleming said.

"We have no primary information and are trying to verify the contents of the object but it's very suspicious," she said.

The Anatolian agency on Sunday quoted Sanliurfa's provincial governor Muzaffer Dilek as saying experts had yet to determine the amount of uranium but that intelligence agents believed it only weighed about 100 grams.

Dilek also said police charged the two men in connection with the case but released them pending trial.

"These people said they believe that what was given to them was medical material," he said, adding police were now looking for two other suspects.