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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ken Robbins who wrote (7427)	10/16/2001 10:16:22 AM
From: joseph krinsky	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27666

I'm sure you're right, I have no clue about the structures, but hopefully the powers that be will make sure they have enough security to protect them, after all they're charged with that job, and we as individuals can't do much about it. I made no comment about whether or not nukes are the way to go for power, although I do agree with you that I think they're not worth it. In the event of a catastrophe, the possible damage is not worth any benefits that they would have ever given. Hindsight being 20-20, They should have spent the money on developing alternative power sources, such as solar, IMO. And IMO now that they see that accidents can happen at them, and what the results are, they should start to phase them out altogether. Even if there's not another accident for a 1000 years, and then there's one where a plant "blows up" and radiation is spewed everywhere, that accident would negate whatever benefit that was ever received from the plant for the next 50,000 years. They're just not worth it.

To: Ken Robbins who wrote (7427)	10/16/2001 12:01:52 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Respond to of 27666

Why use a plane; why not make your own nuclear weapon: Tuesday October 16, 6:03 PM 'Al Qaida tried to buy nuclear material from Russian mafia' By Arun Mohanty, Indo-Asian News Service in.news.yahoo.com Moscow, Oct 16 (IANS) Terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden's group Al Qaida has tried to buy nuclear material through the Russian mafia, reports here said. Al Qaida had made several attempts to procure nuclear material for military purpose from Russian mafia, Russian news agency Interfax reports. For this purpose bin Laden had reportedly established contacts with representatives of Russian organised criminal gangs in Germany, Belarus and Russia. "A German state-run TV company will reveal this in its popular evening programme 'Report,'" Interfax said quoting the news agency EFE. American and European specialists are trying to trace contacts made by Al Qaida financial director Makhmud Salim in this connection. Salim has been in a German prison since 1998. Al Qaida member Jamal Ahmed Fadl had also confirmed that the group was trying to buy nuclear material from the Russian mafia early this year. Fadl reportedly said he, on bin Laden's behest, had established contact with the representatives of Russian organised crime for procuring nuclear material. In the chaotic years that followed Soviet collapse, Russian mafia, which has its tentacles in different industrial branches, was reported to have control over many nuclear installations .