Cheney: "Nuclear Terror Threat" - But He Allowed LOOTING of Iraqi Nukes!

[Stephanie]

Remember Tuwaitha?

Now that Cheney is threatening us YET AGAIN with with the spectre of mushroom clouds, it begs the question. WHY did BushCO do nothing to guard the Iraqi nuclear facilities? The materials there had been stored and sealed by the IAEA. Now they are gone. BushCO guarded the Oil Ministry but not the nuclear sites. Did they WANT those materials to wind up in the hands of terrorists?

The only thing Bush/Cheney has to run on is FEAR ITSELF. Did they let this looting happen on purpose? What other explanation is there?

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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/10/20/cheney_suggests_possible_nuclear_biological_risks/?rss_id=Boston%20Globe%20--%20National%20News

Cheney suggests nuclear threats
By Andrew Welsh-Huggins, Associated Press | October 20, 2004

CARROLL, Ohio -- Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday raised the possibility of terrorists bombing US cities with nuclear weapons and questioned whether Senator John F. Kerry could combat such an ''ultimate threat . . . you've got to get your mind around."

'The biggest threat we face now as a nation is the possibility of terrorists ending up in the middle of one of our cities with deadlier weapons than have ever before been used against us -- biological agents or a nuclear weapon or a chemical weapon of some kind to be able to threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans," Cheney said.

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Cheney, speaking to an invitation-only crowd as he began a bus tour through Republican strongholds in Ohio, said Kerry is trying to persuade voters he would be the same type of ''tough, aggressive" leader as President Bush in the fight against terrorism.

''I don't believe it," Cheney said. ''I don't think there's any evidence to support the proposition that he would, in fact, do it."
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http://nucnews.net/nucnews/2003nn/0307nn/030716nn.htm
U.N. in Dark About Looted Iraq Dirty Bomb Material
July 16, 2003
By Louis Charbonneau

VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog said Wednesday it had accounted for most of the low-grade uranium lost during looting at Iraq's main nuclear facility, but had no information about more dangerous radioactive material.

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But an IAEA spokeswoman said the agency had not been permitted by U.S. occupation authorities to check the status of Tuwaitha's stocks of highly-radioactive cesium-137, cobalt-160 and other materials which could be used in dirty bombs.

"There were around 400 of these radioactive sources stored at Tuwaitha," IAEA's Melissa Fleming said.

Witnesses have said that villagers near Tuwaitha, especially children, have shown symptoms of radiation sickness.

"Any case of radiation sickness would probably be from these highly-radioactive sources, not from the low-grade natural uranium at Location C," Fleming said.<more>
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http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/6068775.htm
Looting of Iraqi nuclear facility indicts U.S. goals
If we feared the loss of radioactive materials, why not guard them?
TRUDY RUBIN
Knight Ridder Newspapers
Posted on Thu, Jun. 12, 2003

TUWAITHA, Iraq - On a dusty road, just outside of Baghdad, lies one of the great mysteries of the Iraq war.

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The administration knew full well what was stored at Tuwaitha. So how is it possible that the U.S. military failed to secure the nuclear facility until weeks after the war started? This left looters free to ransack the barrels, dump their contents, and sell them to villagers for storage.

How is it possible that, according to Iraqi nuclear scientists, looters are still stealing radioactive isotopes?

The Tuwaitha story makes a mockery of the administration's vaunted concern with weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. military hastened to secure the Ministry of Oil in Baghdad from looters. But Iraq's main nuclear facility was apparently not important enough to get similar protection.

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And why, in facilities other than Location C, is the looting apparently continuing?

Hisham Abdel Malik, a Iraqi nuclear scientist who lives near Tuwaitha and has been inside the complex, told me that in buildings "where there are radioactive isotopes, there is looting every day." He says the isotopes, which are in bright silver containers, "are sold in the black market or kept in homes." According to IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming, such radioactive sources can kill on contact or pollute whole neighborhoods.

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[Stephanie]

1. They keep insisting that the "terrorists" will disrupt the election.

Isn't that exactly what they WANT?

[meow2u3]

6. Question is, who are the real terrorists threating us?

The al-Qaeda boogeyman abroad, or the terrorists in the White House committing acts of terrorism by issuing phony terror warnings?

[Stephanie]

7. If something DOES happen, we can thank Cheney either way

Either through malice, or negligence, it will be Cheney's fault.

[Stephanie]

2. I think this is one of the WORST CRIMES of this Administration

But no one will talk about it.

[Stephanie]

3. I keep changing the title in the hopes someone will read it

I want Cheney called out on the fact that if anyone gets hit by a DIRTY BOMB it is CHENEY'S FAULT

[Stephanie]

4. NYT: Cheney, Invoking the Specter of a Nuclear Attack, Questions Kerry's

Cheney, Invoking the Specter of a Nuclear Attack, Questions Kerry's Strength

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/20/politics/campaign/20cheney.html?oref=login



ATTN KERRY: The ANSWER to this BOGUS fearmongering is to TELL THE PEOPLE ABOUT TUWAITHA.

[Stephanie]

5. I'm the only one who wants to rub Cheney's nose in this crap?

I am FURIOUS that he would DARE threaten us with nukes AGAIN when HE's the one who let them LOOSE!