← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · Blond Knight
Thread ID: 14208 | Posts: 6 | Started: 2004-06-16
2004-06-16 01:05 | User Profile
It's difficult these days to separate the B.S. from the real news so for what it's worth I'll submit the following, besides, the Mid-East media can't be any worse than the ministry of truth we have in the U.S. of Zion.
[url]http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=6/15/2004&Cat=4&Num=020[/url]
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June 15, 2004
U.S. Trucks Carrying Radioactive Materials Intercepted In Iraq-Kuwait Border
TEHRAN (MNA) -ââ¬â The UAE-based daily Al-Khaleej reported on Monday that Kuwaiti tariff officials have intercepted a truck loaded with radioactive materials in the Iraq-Kuwait border.
The daily quoted informed sources as saying that the radioactive control team from Kuwaitââ¬â¢s Health Ministry discovered that one of the trucks belonging to the U.S.-led coalition forces was carrying heavy radioactive materials trucks. The trucks were headed for Iraq.
The daily said that such materials could only enter a country when there is permission from related bodies while the materials were secretly being carried to Iraq.
Security forces stressed that no contamination had been caused by the material.
The MNA reported for the first time the coalition forcesââ¬â¢ suspicious transfer of WMD parts from Kuwait to Southern Iraq by trucks.
The possible presence of WMD in Iraq and its likely nuclear programs were the main U.S. pretext for attacking the country.
However, their failure to find weapons of mass destruction in the country and the continuing turmoil in Iraq questioned the legitimacy of the U.S. war against Iraq and their presence in the country.
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2004-06-16 02:15 | User Profile
When I was living in Calif. I took one of my Geiger counter to show it to a friend of mine, I then went home with the machine on the seat next to me, only thing is that I forgot to turn it off,,,,,,, as I was going down the freeway an eighteen wheeler came from the opposite direction and my Geiger counter went crazy,,,,,, because there was a center divider that ran for about five miles I was unable to make a turn around in order to follow the truck......... I now once in a while travel with the Geiger on the seat next to me.
2004-06-16 06:09 | User Profile
Interesting article...good chance it's phony but still interesting.
Ponce's comment reminded me that very soon trucks will be constantly hauling radioactive waste on America's freeways. I would not be surprised if they already are doing so (according to Ponce they are). Here's a good article on what a bad idea this is, especially in light of terrorism:
[url]http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/2002/feb/12/513026271.html[/url]
Las Vegas SUN
February 12, 2002
Editorial: Dangers of shipping nuke waste Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham has said that national security is one reason why a nuclear waste dump should be built in Nevada. In Abraham's view, a central repository would be a better way to fend off possible terrorist attacks made against nuclear power plants, which is where spent fuel currently is stored. Despite Abraham's attempt to make Yucca Mountain more palatable by invoking terrorism, the reality is that a central repository for nuclear waste creates a much greater risk because transporting nuclear waste would be highly vulnerable to an attack.
A fortified nuclear power plant offers a better defense than a slow-moving convoy carrying nuclear waste, a shipment that would be more susceptible to attack. Don't forget that it's estimated that it could take 30 years to send 100,000 shipments of nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain, much of it cross-country, before all 77,000 tons of the nuclear waste are removed from the nuclear power plants. A videotape recently acquired by Nevada's congressional delegation, and which reporter Benjamin Grove wrote about in a copyrighted story in Sunday's Sun, throws additional doubts on the ability to protect nuclear waste from a terrorist attack while it is being shipped.
The tape shows two tests from 1998 that compared the vulnerability to missile attacks for casks used to store nuclear waste on site at power plants versus casks used to haul nuclear waste. The experiments, using TOW anti-tank missiles of less than 50 pounds, were performed by the casks' maker, International Fuel Containers, in conjunction with the U.S. Army at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. In one test, a cask is covered by concrete to simulate how nuclear waste currently is stored at power plants. A missile is placed on the cask and detonated. The missile does crack the surface, but it doesn't completely penetrate the cask that would be holding the nuclear waste. In another test simulating an attack on a truck or train hauling the waste, a TOW anti-tank missile is placed on the less-fortified cask and detonated. The explosion pierces the one-foo t-thick cask and creates a softball-sized hole all the way through the container. Neither test shows what would have happen! ed if a missile had actually been fired at a cask, but you get the picture about one of the potential dangers of shipping nuclear waste.
The Department of Energy for years has avoided the issue of transportation because it knows this is a weak link in the creation of a single repository. By ignoring the matter, the officials hope it will go away. In addition, if the department identified the train routes and interstate highways and roads that the waste would be shipped over, Nevada no longer would be virtually alone in making the case against Yucca Mountain. It would create political opposition in other states that could result in the project being derailed. Now that Yucca Mountain is on the verge of getting a favorable recommendation by the Department of Energy, the Bush administration no longer can avoid coming to terms with transportation, no matter how much it tries.
There already is enough geologic evidence alone for President Bush to reject a nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain. The threat of transporting man's deadliest waste to a central repository also is an important reason why Yucca Mountain should be rejected. The key now is whether the president is willing to listen to Nevada's well-reasoned arguments against the construction of a nuclear waste dump in this state.
2004-06-16 06:59 | User Profile
Blond Knight,
If Bush tries to bring up any "WMD" at this late everyone will know it is a fake.
2004-06-16 15:09 | User Profile
I really don't know if it was "radioactive waste" and I never said that it was, for one thing I never saw what was inside of the truck and also the Geiger counter that I had with me was the ultra sensitive one, is the one to check food.
Is so sensitive that it will click whenever you place it over a Coleman Mantle.
So who knows what was inside of the truck, maybe it was only a load of watches with radium on their faces.
2004-06-17 04:53 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ponce]I really don't know if it was "radioactive waste" and I never said that it was, for one thing I never saw what was inside of the truck and also the Geiger counter that I had with me was the ultra sensitive one, is the one to check food.
Is so sensitive that it will click whenever you place it over a Coleman Mantle.
So who knows what was inside of the truck, maybe it was only a load of watches with radium on their faces.[/QUOTE]
Sorry -didn't mean to imply that; should've worded my post differently. Maybe I should have started a new thread since my post does go off on a tangent. This article and your post just made me think about the implications of hauling waste on the freeways, something that needs a little more attention in the mainstream media since it will likely be happening much more often.