>
> See also NOVA last night on "Global Dimming" tug of war with Global
> Warming and release of methane from Arctic seas, not to mention
> Yosemite super-volcano and asteroid coming dangerously close to us
> in 2029. I am not endorsing any of the alleged information below.
> Passing it on to others to evaluate. I have no idea who the author
> of the stuff below or how reliable the specifics are.
>
> Jack Sarfatti
> sarfatti@pacbell.net
> "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called
> research, would it?"
> - Albert Einstein
>
http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail.aspx?bookid=23999
>
http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.jack.sarfatti
>
http://qedcorp.com/APS/Dec122006.ppt
>
http://video.google.com/videoplay?
> docid=-1310681739984181006&q=Sarfatti+Causation&hl=en
>>
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lub/sets/72157594439814784
>
> On Jan 4, 2007, at 9:57 AM, david mosier wrote:
>
>> Is A Nuclear Weapons Attack Against Britain Imminent?
>> I believe it is highly possible that terrorists, in Britain, are
>> in possession of a nuclear bomb and are getting ready to use it.
>> Here's why:
>> Back on Friday, December 15, 2006, I wrote a post in which I
>> speculated that the death of former Soviet-spy Alexander
>> Litvinenko was not a murder, but was instead, the result of his
>> smuggling of Polonium 210 for use in a nuclear attack against the UK:
>>
>> Nuclear weapons are, in some sense, unstable; they are said to
>> decay over time, and become ineffective, if not properly maintained.
>> Now, I would imagine that not all the parts of a nuclear weapon
>> decay at the same rate. For instance, we can assume the shell -
>> which is probably made of metal or plastic - does not decay
>> rapidly. So, it is something within the bomb which decays.
>> Of course, heavy metals themselves are unstable and emit
>> radiation, so it could be that more uranium or plutonium needs to
>> be added to the core periodically. But, I don't have enough
>> information to know if this is the case.
>> Here's what I do know, from what I have read about the Litvinenko
>> case. Polonium 210 is the trigger that starts the chain reaction
>> within the uranium or plutonium core in a nuclear weapon. In other
>> words, you have a core of plutonium or uranium and you need a
>> trigger which is packed around the core, which itself explodes
>> with enough force to compress the plutonium to the point that a
>> chain reaction will ensue.
>> Could it be that Polonium 210 is the unstable element of a nuclear
>> weapon which needs maintanence? Could it be that our Muslim friend
>> Litvinenko was smuggling polonium into Britain so that they could
>> bring an already existing nuclear device back into working form?
>>
>> Now, when I wrote that post, I received some negative comments
>> about my seemingly wild flight of fancy. Turns out that I am, more
>> than likely, correct in my speculation. From Terrorism expert,
>> Paul Williams (written December 6, 2006) whom I will be
>> interviewing on my radio show this coming week:
>>
>> The death of Alexander Litvinenko by radiological poisoning points
>> to the possibility that the former Soviet spy may have been
>> involved with Islamic terrorists in the preparation of tactical
>> nuclear weapons for use in the jihad against the United States and
>> its NATO allies.
>> Litvenenko, a former KGB agent, died in London on November 23
>> after ingesting a microscopic amount of polonium-210. In a
>> deathbed statement, Litvinenko blamed Russian President Vladimir
>> Putin for the poisoning - - an accusation which the Kremlin has
>> vehemently denied.
>> Litvinenko, who was born an orthodox Christian, was a convert to
>> Islam with close ties to the Chechen rebels. His last words
>> consisted of his desire to be buried ?according to Muslim tradition.?
>> In recent years, considerable attention has been paid to suitcase
>> nukes that were developed by U.S. and Soviet forces during the
>> Cold War. Reliable sources, including Hans Blix of the United
>> Nation, have confirmed that bin Laden purchased several of these
>> devises from the Chechen rebels in 1996.
>> According to Sharif al-Masri and other al Qaeda operatives who
>> have been taken into custody, several of these weapons have been
>> forward deployed to the United States in preparation for al Qaeda?
>> s next attack on American soil.
>> This brings us to the mysterious case of Litvinenko. The neutron
>> source or ?triggers? of the suitcase nukes are composed of
>> beryllium-9 and polonium-210. When these two elements are
>> combined, the alpha particle is absorbed by the nucleus of the
>> beryllium causing it to decay by emitting a neutron. Such ?
>> triggers? were a feature of early nuclear weapons in the U.S. and
>> Soviet stockpiles.
>> Polonium-210 has a half-life of 138 days, necessitating the
>> replacement of the triggers every six months. (Read the rest.)
>>
>> To add to your paranoia, I will also point out that several days
>> ago it was revealed that British security forces are buying large
>> amounts of special body bags, and radiation suits in preparation
>> for what they termed a "dirty bomb attack."
>> But, the thing about "dirty bombs", or, in other words,
>> radiological bombs is that as awful as they sound, they are simply
>> a regular bomb with radiological material wrapped around the
>> explosion device. So, in other words, the blast area of a
>> radiological bomb would be no bigger than that of a regular bomb,
>> which, in turn means that it is highly unlikely that any more
>> people would die from a radiolical bomb than would from a
>> conventional non-nuclear bomb.
>> In fact, if one compares them to Palestinian bombs which uses
>> nails as shrapnel, it is possible that people would simply die a
>> slower death after getting hit with the radiological material,
>> than they would having gotten hit with nails.
>> A radiological, or "dirty bomb" would likely only cause a few
>> hundred deaths, so why is Britain preparing for many thousands?
>> Now, to heap even more paranoia on you, please understand that the
>> past few weeks, some rather alarming warnings have been coming out
>> of the various parts of Britain's intelligence community. For
>> instance, London's Chief of Police, Ian Blair recently was quoted
>> saying:
>>
>> ?It is a far graver threat in terms of civilians than either the
>> Cold War or the Second World War,? he said. ?It?s a much graver
>> threat than that posed by Irish Republican terrorism.?
>>
>> Additionally, UK police have professed to being alarmed by the
>> high level of terrorist chatter revealed in intelligence reports:
>>
>> ABC News has learned that al Qaeda operatives in the greater
>> London area are being encouraged to ?strike during the Christian
>> holidays,? according to intelligence and law enforcement sources?
>> ABC News sources in North America and the U.K. say that British
>> authorities are constantly on the run, breaking up plots on a near
>> weekly basis that have reached the pre-operational phase.Sources
>> in Britain add that at least one ?pivotal?al Qaeda U.K.? operative
>> has been detained during the past two weeks, and others may ? at
>> least temporarily ? be in custody.
>>
>> Specifically, they are searching for three "English brothers"
>> trained at Al Qaeda camps in Pakistan:
>>
>> Police are trying to trace a gang of British Muslims who are
>> thought to have returned to plot terror attacks in Britain after
>> being trained abroad for more than a year by al-Qaeda, Nine
>> Britons, all said to be in their twenties, were among a group of
>> 12 Western recruits groomed by al-Qaeda at a secret camp near the
>> Afghan border to set up new terror cells in London and other
>> Western capitals.
>> Police do not know the real identities of this gang, who are known
>> as the ?English brothers? because of their shared language. As
>> well as nine Britons, they include two Norwegians and an
>> Australian who were smuggled into the Waziristan tribal region in
>> Pakistan in October 2005.They are believed to have been under the
>> command of an al-Qaeda veteran suspected of training some of the
>> Britons accused of the alleged plot to blow up passenger planes
>> flying to the US from Heathrow airport in the summer. ...
>> Intelligence sources in Pakistan said that the men are reported to
>> have joined Taleban and al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan in
>> attacks on Nato troops. The sources told The Times that the ?
>> brothers? were given religious indocrination as well as lessons on
>> how to assemble suicide bomb vests and improvised explosive devices.
>> The sources are reported to have been escorted to the al-Qaeda
>> camp by Adam Gadahn, a Californian indicted by the US authorities
>> as an al-Qaeda terrorist, who introduced the ?brothers? to their
>> tutors.
>>
>> When police release such specific information about potential
>> suspects, we can assume it means they have lost control of the
>> investigation and are, instead, attempting to scare the suspects
>> into not acting by appearing to be within striking distance.
>> Simply put, they would not release the information, if they knew
>> where the "English brothers were, both physically and in terms of
>> their ongoing terror plot.
>> Here are some questions to ponder: What date did Litvinenko bring
>> that Polonium into Britain? And, when is 138 days after that?
>> I would say it looks like the UK is in a heap of trouble.
>> Permanent Link | Posted by Pastorius at 8:11:00 PM?
>>
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