Re: Al Qaeda website details how to make WMDs & use against us
- From: "The Harbinger" <DontShootMeImJustTheMessenger@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 6 Nov 2005 10:27:54 -0800
Patriot wrote:
> Stephen Glynn wrote:
> > Patriot wrote:
> > > (Times article link & excerpts appended below)
> > >
> > > There are three things we need to consider here: what this website
> > > enables terrorists to do, what it gives to hostile governments and what
> > > we need to do about it.
> > >
> > > In the latter case, given the right materials and based on the
> > > description reported in the article, there is little doubt that most
> > > governments hostile to us will now be able to craft a nuclear weapon.
> > > Long range ballistic missile based delivery may be out of the question
> > > for most of them, but given our porous borders and evidence of terror
> > > cells within our countries, other (indeed, less suicidal) alternatives
> > > exist for them.
> > >
> > > In the former case, apart from the "recruiting element" of the website
> > > (already noted in the article), if its visitors didn't know how to make
> > > a dirty bomb, they do now.
> >
> >
> > Finding out how to build an atomic bomb is simple enough. You don't
> > need Al Qa'ida to tell you how do it. Just do a google search on "how
> > to build an atomic bomb" and one of the first hits you get is
> >
> > http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/neutronics/todd/nuc.bomb.html
> >
> > This does, btw, include the sensible warning that ' The information
> > contained in this file is strictly for academic use alone. UC Berkeley
> > will bear no responsibility for any use otherwise. It would be wise to
> > note that the personnel who design and construct these devices are
> > skilled physicists and are more knowledgeable in these matters than any
> > layperson can ever hope to be... Should a layperson attempt to build a
> > device such as this, chances are s/he would probably kill his/herself
> > not by a nuclear detonation, but rather through radiation exposure. We
> > here at UC Berkeley do not recommend using this file beyond the realm of
> > casual or academic curiosity.'
> >
> > The first hit you get, though, takes you to a far simpler set of
> > instructions.
> >
> > http://winn.com/bs/atombomb.html
> >
> > Enjoy!
> >
> > Steve
>
> Did you even read the article? Here, I'll point out a relevant bit you
> need to read again:
>
> "Nuclear physicists were alarmed by the site. "Normally you just get
> generic principles, but this appears to be more like a proper
> instruction manual," said John Hassard, reader in physics at Imperial
> College, London."
Let me tell you a little story.
Many years ago, even before the internet, someone I know stumbled upon
a copy of the US army Improvised Munitions Manual; known as the Black
Book. This fascinating publication outlined how to make a number of
IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) from household materials. The
version of this manual dated back a few years but it was full of
interesting snippets of information and full end to end instructions on
bombmaking, trap setting etc.
Among the information were warnings of the volatility of certain
chemical combinations and instructions on how to ensure the safety of
the operative by avoiding combinations in particular quantities and
using processes that could cause the chemicals to explode and kill or
injure the operative.
More recently, this person I know, did some amature research on the
internet and compared the instructions in the black book with the
instructions on the websites. He was amazed to discover that many of
the recipes on the internet in some small detail or two, on many
occasions instructed the user to perform activities that were indicated
to be dangerous in the black book.
Of course, this person I know destroyed the manual as soon as he was
aware that it would be unlawful to possess it.
Take your own conclusions from this.
This particular episode, in addition to the fact that it took the IRA
(who were no slouches) many, many years to perfect bombmaking to the
point where it was more dangerous to the target than the perpetrator
provides the evidence in my mind that there is absolutely no doubt that
the July 7th bombers were assisted by a military or guerilla
organisation of some sort. the july 21st bombers however show all the
signs of having got it off of the internet. No doubt we will all know
in time.
.
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