Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Unintended Consequences

Thanks to Atlasshrugs, one of the priceless sources in the fight against the Jihad.

Look at this now. An absolutely chilling and accurate scenario of how a terrorist attack could be perpetrated.


Unintended Consequences

FROM DIRECTORBLUE:

Then look at this article which points out the vulnerabilities of commercial nuclear materials used in medical and industrial roles.

Seize the Cesium
FROM NYTIMES.COM:

By PETER D. ZIMMERMAN, JAMES M. ACTON and M. BROOKE ROGERS Published: August 1, 2007
London
THE death of Alexander Litvinenko, the former K.G.B. officer who drank polonium-210 in a cup of tea, underscored the damage that radiological terrorists could do. The most familiar possible situations involve the detonation of a dirty bomb, a modest amount of high explosive mated to a container of radioactive material. But radioactive material inside the human body is far more dangerous than a dirty bomb.
Most analysts believe that about 10 people would die from radiation poisoning after a dirty bomb attack. Others believe that the only people likely to receive a lethal dose of radiation from a dirty bomb would already be dead from the blast. A perfectly feasible terrorist attack using the ingestion, inhalation or immersion of radioactive material, on the other hand, would be almost certain to kill hundreds. We call attacks of these kinds I-cubed attacks (for ingestion, inhalation and immersion). Such attacks can be sneaky, unaccompanied by a flash and bang.
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