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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (12676)	3/15/2002 9:57:03 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 23908

Big BLU The Pentagon is rushing to produce a new and bigger bunker-buster bomb for use against hardened targets, like some of the underground hide-outs used by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Pentagon sources tell us the new bomb is being developed for the Air Force by Northrop Grumman Corp. in California and is called Big BLU — for bomb live unit. The new bomb will be bigger and more powerful than the new BLU-118 thermobaric warhead dropped on caves in Afghanistan recently. Big BLU, we are told, will be six times bigger than the F-15E-carried thermobaric bomb and will be packed with some 30,000 pounds of high explosive. It will be guided to targets by satellite and will sport a cobalt-alloy penetrating warhead that allows the bomb to dive up to 100 feet below the surface before detonating. The bombs are so big that it will take a B-2 bomber to carry one of them, we are told. Three Big BLUs have been ordered by the Air Force on an urgent basis. Bin Laden's DNA Intelligence officials tell us it would be next to impossible to collect DNA samples for all senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders. But one DNA sample is in hand, we are told. Months ago, the U.S. government obtained a sample of DNA from a family member of Osama bin Laden. The collection ensures that if bin Laden is killed and his remains are found, Washington can prove that it killed the world's most wanted terrorist. Senior officials only reluctantly discuss the matter, and would not say when and from whom the sample was taken. The fear is someone in bin Laden's al Qaeda network would kill any family member who cooperated with U.S. authorities. More Article @.... washingtontimes.com