Move along folks, nothing here to see: US officials have also reportedly played down the threat, saying the materials were not believed to be enriched uranium. They added that it would be difficult for the rebels to use the materials to make weapons.
Well, there has to be something to it – you have the pressitute media distracting attention from the WMDs terrorists have access to and down-playing the threat to national security of an open southern border – and then you have Cheney, Holder and other Washington junta sock puppets predicting a nuke attack on US soil – seems a false flag attack is imminent.
The USSA needs a good nuke scare to bring in permanent marshal law – then you will have the Obama junta installed for life – then he can set about getting rid of all those racist “bitter clingers” who he says have hampered his agenda to fundamentally change America, put them in camps while fully opening the southern border and become lord of the Mex-American pogy state – and print all the phony money (food stamps) he needs w/o congressional oversight, to spend on keeping his new flock happy.
Americans hate him so he will kick them to the curb and become the messiah of non Americans – the acts are in place, the fed goon squads are armed and ready, the crony bankster syndicates back collapse of congressional oversight, all it will take is to build up the paranoia then set off a firecracker at the appropriate time.
– Just a pre-coffee thought.
Strap some explosive to it, and blow it up on a roof top in a US city and the press will scream dirty bomb and the people will crush each other to death in a panic to get out and the remainder will trash and steal everything left behind.
Indeed it would give them an excuse to tear up the constitution or what’s left of it. Americans, like the rest of us are sheep, no longer men of action, at least not unless the government tells us what to do.
The one quality of ISIS etc that you have to give them is that they are not sitting around taking BS from a central government that didn’t represent them, they still know how to rebel.
Yeah well, I’m not making any predictions….too many irrational players in the ME, who may or may not feel threatened and who are not restrained by protocols nor conventions.
I see a consensus is building. All three of us woke up this morning, saw that headline and thought “gee, I bet Barry would love it if the Mooselimbs blew up something.”
Because if they do, Barry will be able to get those DHS checkpoints he wants. Airport security theater, coming soon to a random street corner in the Bronx. Or East Deer Antler, Wyoming, population 182.
When they finally do go for it, and they will, just remember that the Fourth Amendment requires the Second to back it up. A twelve dollar an hour Federal employee will seriously hesitate to stop and frisk you under Second Amendment conditions. Because he may be a jack booted thug, but he’s also a coward hiding behind a badge.
We in Canada have long since lost that particular battle, waaaaay back in 1934 if memory serves. Arguably in 1885. Red River Rebellion. Likewise we have no protection against unreasonable search and seizure.
It’s low grade slightly enriched uranium. It’s irrelevant for radiological purposes, and with ony 44 kg it’s irrelevant for making nuclear weapons either. Jay is right about generating public panic, but that’s about all it can do.
It could make a very expensive mess to clean up. They’d be happy with just that, I’m sure.
Mass panic is what terrorists seek to create. A dirty bomb could cause the abandonment of a large area of a city. Depending on which city is chosen it could have severe economic repercussions.
Al, exactly. Disruption and creating panic in society and its leadership has always been the objective of terrorists.
Agree.
ISIS Reminds me of a new gang in the hood.
They have to prove and improve their violent actions so they can gain international attention and respect from the other Islamic thugs.
Any patrol officer will tell you,
The new gang on the street is the most dangerous before they get respect.
Two years from now no one will even remember their initials.
Al said: “Mass panic is what terrorists seek to create.”
While that is certainly true Al, what’s becoming scary is that the US government may be seeking to -let- them.
These terrorists are a bunch of schmucks. H3ll on wheels at beheading unarmed civilians, much less awesome at fighting guys who can shoot back. These are the same type of goofs that 200 of them ran away from a bayonet charge by 30 low-on-ammo Argyles. Could they have gotten hold of any of this stuff if the Americans hadn’t left it all in Iraq and walked away? By order of Barry?
That’s all I’m saying.
If it’s natural uranium, there’s not much more needed than sweep it up with a broom. If it’s low enriched, it’s still not much of a mess. If it’s highly radioactive, non-fissionable, it’s impossible, because the putative terrorists would already have killed or injured themselves trying to assemble it.
It could probably be used to contaminate an area, like in a city for instance, as a “dirty nuke.” Just because it isn’t weaponable doesn’t make it “inert” or safe in any way, especially in the hands of these yahoos.
BTW, my congratulations go out to AQ for finding chemical and nuclear weapons materials that apparently have never existed. Well done!! Sorry, couldn’t resist an I told you so.
Most people are scared out of their wits by radioactivity; scared by the word “nucleus”, which is why MRI is not called
NMRI – nuclear magnetic resonance imaging – which it in fact is.
Hans Blix…call your office….