A Dirty Bomb?
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http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/09/09/times-square-could-be-target-of-d...
Sources: Authorities Concerned About Possible Dirty Bomb, Times Square Strike
Say Al Qaeda Eager To Hit Where They Failed, Just Like 9/11 Following 1993
Updated 12:31 a.m., Sept. 10, 2011
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Just two days before the 10th anniversary, New York City is on high alert.
Federal and local authorities have beefed up security after receiving intelligence about a credible threat. The alleged plot by al Qaeda involves detonating car bombs on bridges and in tunnels in New York and Washington D.C. to coincide with the anniversary of 9/11.
Times Square has become the ground zero of the latest terror threat. Sources told CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer that another attempt to explode a bomb there is a key concern, and the intelligence suggests it could be a dirty bomb.
There was a lot of security you could see Friday in the Big Apple, especially in Times Square, because, as sources told Kramer, the intelligence includes information that al Qaeda wants to finish the job that started with Faisal Shahzad’s failed car bomb attempt in May 2010.
But that’s only half of the problem. Officials are worried that this time it could be a dirty bomb.
“We have to think about a dirty bomb, where you take radiological material and mix it with conventional explosives,” Kelly said.
Kramer recently talked exclusively with Kelly about the possibility of a dirty bomb, but now sources said the classroom drills might have to be put into practice. Intelligence sources said the terrorists could be trying to make a dirty bomb this time my mixing radiological isotopes with an explosive device.
That’s why the NYPD is deploying all kinds of radiation detectors, panel trucks with sophisticated instruments. On Friday, cops had personal radiation detectors on their belts, and radiation detectors are being used by police within a 50-mile radius of New York City — in New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania and on Long Island.
Weapon of Mass Distraction
Courtesy of MIT and Technology Review, June 23, 2004:
http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/13651/
"The biggest danger from radiological weapons is the misplaced panic that they would cause."
"Perhaps they recognized the truth: that the bombs news value could be greater if it were discovered before it went off. For such weapons, the psychological impact can be greater than the limited harm they are likely to cause."
From the response seen here with regard to Fukushima, I'd say the author of the above article, Prof. Richard A. Muller of the University of California - Berkeley Physics Department has it spot on.
A trivial matter
What percentage of the total ejected radionuclides from Fukushima-3 would an Al Qaeda ‘Dirty Bomb’ in a stolen van represent? Perhaps 0.00000001% or less would be involved.
Yawn! Why even bother cleaning it up? Let’s just increase the permissible radiation dose for residents of NYNY and DC. Don’t conduct any tests or gather any samples. Certainly, be careful to frustrate media coverage of any danger.
Turn off the Radnet and CTBT radiation detection stations.
In any event, that would appear to match the EPA ‘response’ to the Fukushima Category-7+ nuclear disaster. Would the Al Qaeda ‘Dirty Bomb’ even rate a (1) on the scale?
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Why, according to the lovely and erudite constitutional lawyer, Miss Ann Coulter, J.D.; we should WELCOME an Al Qaeda 'Dirty Bomb' with open arms!
Miss Coulter extols the healthful virtues of hormesis, the gratuituous exposure to radiation. The rest of the nuke industry shills, merely downplay the hazards of respiratory and dietary radionuclide intake.
The classical caution of ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable), was obscured by Obama, before he 'bugged-out' to South America, with his family.
Coulter, Obama and the General Electric Nuclear Division lies; represent much of what is going wrong in America. Last year GE outsourced 20,000 US jobs. Meanwhile, GE Chairman Jeffrey Immelt chairs Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. GE has also 'obtained' MOX up-ratings for many of their defective, superannuated and corroded Mark-1 reactors in the USA.
What is 'good' for GE is bad for America.
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