Paul. That's some important input. Thank you.
Roebear called me not long ago. Passed along those turn dates to him. And something else...that might play into that time window in a big way.
Bout a month ago, I guess, posted some very scary information from NewsMax. Seems intelligence intercepts in Argentina prompted the FBI alert at that time. The intercepts stated an Al Queda cell in Bogota Colombia had obtained radioactive materials and a large enough cache of conventional explosives to construct a "dirty bomb". Further they group had transported these materials to or were already across the US border with it.
BUT there's something new that another of our little gang on SD II just posted last night from another web news source. From the sounds of this, there may be multiple "dirty bombs" floating around inside our borders.
<New US Terror Alert Linked to Nuke Fear
4 December: One factor in the third general terror alert raised in the United States since September 11 relates,
according to US media, to intelligence information indicating that the former Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden has
gained possession of a so-called dirty or radiological bomb. The target date referred to in electronic intercepts is
mid-December. It has also been suggested that such weapons may have been smuggled into the United States.
On October 12, DEBKA-Net-Weekly reported from its intelligence sources that Bin Laden had almost certainly
procured a supply of uranium-235 six months before the September 11 suicide attacks. The uranium was believed
to have reached him in a multimillion deal with a Ukrainian-born mobster called Semion Mogilevich.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly came back to the subject more recently on November 30, in another exclusive report:
Radiation Poisoning Betrays Mule
In the first week of October, a Pakistani arrested on immigration charges in the course of the FBI investigation into
the September 11 suicide attacks, complained of bleeding gums and pain, symptoms of gingivitis. He was treated
with antibiotics, but was found dead in his cell in Hudson Count jail in Kearny, New Jersey, three weeks later.
The cause of death was not released, any more than the dead man’s identity.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s medical experts note that the bleeding gums the anonymous Pakistani was treated for are
a symptom of radiation poisoning, suggesting he might have been a “mule” transporting nuclear materials or devices
into America. (A subsequent investigation revealed that he had contracted gingivitis as a result of radiation-induced
leukemia.)
This explanation would imply that more than one such carrier is employed by al Qaeda to smuggle nuclear materials
or devices into the United States, Western Europe and the Middle East, their mission being to plant their deadly
burdens in pre-arranged secret locations, ready for activation.
At roughly the same time, another Pakistani was detained at the Allenby Bridge crossing from Jordan to Israel.
According to initial published reports, he was caught trying to smuggle in a “dirty” nuclear device (a conventional
explosive mixed with nuclear materials that spreads radiation).
Then came the news blackout.
An exhaustive DEBKA-Net-Weekly investigation revealed that the arrested intruder carried no nuclear device.
However, he suffered the same symptoms as the man who died in Hudson Jail, New Jersey, indicating he had been
exposed to dangerous doses of radiation. DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s intelligence sources reveal that Israel has
recently installed hidden Geiger counters in the battery of detectors at its international border crossings. The
counter pointed border officials to the suspected “mule”, who most probably reached Jordan from Abu Dhabi.
Israel handed him over to the United States, but was left asking itself: What exactly was the Pakistani’s mission?
And have other members of the mule pack managed to gain entry?>
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Bottom line. Don't like it when I see a nexus as negative as this confluence of diverse lines of evidence is pointing to. Meanwhile the dollar and the Treasury market are getting uglier by the day. Thus the sale this afternoon of another big fixed income position. Yup, APJ went bye bye with a small but always welcome profit. And till we get past this mid month risk window decided to leave those proceeds in the cash column, boosting those reserves for now.
If anything, am even more bullish on gold than before!
Gold and Cash....Gold and Cash....and GOLD<g>
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