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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-12-07 07:59 AM
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NYT: Bush will sell nuclear weaponry to ANYONE!
Edited on Thu Jul-12-07 08:00 AM by kpete
A Nuclear Ruse Uncovers Holes in U.S. Security

By ERIC LIPTON
Published: July 12, 2007
WASHINGTON, July 11 — Undercover Congressional investigators set up a bogus company and obtained a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in March that would have allowed them to buy the radioactive materials needed for a so-called dirty bomb.

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“Given that terrorists have expressed an interest in obtaining nuclear material, the Congress and the American people expect licensing programs for these materials to be secure,” said Gregory D. Kutz, an investigator at the accountability office, in testimony prepared for the hearing.

The bomb the investigators could have built would not have caused widespread damage or even high- level contamination. But it still could have had serious consequences, particularly economic ones, in any city where it was set off.

The undercover operation involved an application from a fake construction company, supposedly based in West Virginia, that the investigators had incorporated even though it had no offices, Internet site or employees. Its only asset was a postal box.

more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/12/us/12nuke.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-12-07 08:02 AM
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1. Saddam Hussein was probably listed as President
Either him or one of the 'Democrat' leadership.

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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-12-07 08:03 AM
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2. Thanks for posting this - I was just wondering how I could get my hands on
something that would be dangerous in the wrong hands.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
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