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To: Ilaine who wrote (131247)	5/3/2004 11:26:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

The Pakistanis have had the knowledge for quite a while. I'm sure they'd pass on to Al Q how to make the bomb go bang. If I had only one or two bombs, or were trying to get another one or two into the USA, I'd bide my time before setting one off. We saw already how Al Q saved up for one big hijacking, on one day, at one time. They would know that immediately, there would be 200 million Americans checking every square inch of possible hiding places, including all apartments and other private property. So, they would need to have all their ducks in a row before they played their last hand. The manufacturing process is difficult, as you say, but the delivery and setting off are relatively simple. Light fuse, stand clear. Maybe, if USA ports are too difficult to get through now, they'll deliver some to Tony Blair [with IRA help, through Ireland complements of Gerry Adams, whose mates already blew up the Brighton Hotel and some of Thatcher's government, so they might quite like to do a nuclear one], one to Oz and maybe one for me [for being mouthy about Islamic Jihad head-hackers and their superstitious waco MADness]. Spain is out! So they don't need one. Italy could use one. The Mafia would help import opium for a fee. Mq

To: Ilaine who wrote (131247)	5/3/2004 11:44:01 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Militating against that eventuality is only the fact that these items are rather complicated, and require the services of rather skillful engineer types, who tend, by and large, not to be Islamic fundamentalists. I think u meant "mitigating". if "skillful engineer types" were so hard to find, whats the noise in the US about outsourced jobs ? Meantime, there are a number of countries who have the engineering knowledge to make these things happen - it may just require the right incentive.