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SYRIA: More questions about alleged nuclear site

Posted in CBRN Warfare, created terror on April 30th, 2008 by xxxevilgrinxxx

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/…
latimes.com Babylon & Beyond blog

SYRIA: More questions about alleged nuclear site

Professor William Beeman at the University of Minnesota passed along a note today from “a colleague with a U.S. security clearance” about the mysterious Syrian site targeted in a Sept. 6 Israeli airstrike.

The note raises more questions about the evidence shown last week by U.S. intelligence officials to lawmakers in the House and Senate.

The author of the note pinpoints irregularities about the photographs. Beeman’s source alleges that the CIA “enhanced” some of the images. For example he cites this image:
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U.S. Importing 6,700 Tons of Radioactive Sand From Kuwait

Posted in CBRN Warfare, HME, created terror on April 30th, 2008 by xxxevilgrinxxx

http://www.tdn.com/…

from legitgov

Sand contaminated with DU and lead from U.S. Army base in Kuwait to be shipped to Idaho. Longshoremen should finish unloading 6,700 tons of sand contaminated with depleted uranium and lead Tuesday afternoon, said Chad Hyslop, spokesman for the disposal company American Ecology. The BBC Alabama arrived at the Port of Longview (WA) Saturday afternoon with the 306 containers carrying the contaminated sand from Camp Doha, a U.S. Army base in Kuwait. Half of the containers will be loaded onto 76 rail cars and transported to the company’s disposal site in Idaho. The other half will remain at the port until the trains return to haul them to Idaho. State Department of Health personnel are at the port to test radiation levels and to ensure none of the sand spills [!], Hyslop said.

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New U.S. carrier in Gulf a “reminder” to Iran: Gates

Posted in created terror on April 30th, 2008 by xxxevilgrinxxx

http://www.reuters.com/…
Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:10am EDT
By David Morgan

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The U.S. Navy has temporarily added a second aircraft carrier in the Gulf as a “reminder” to Iran, but this was not an escalation of American forces in the region, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday.
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Is the Bush administration protecting corrupt Justice Department contractors?

Posted in politics on April 30th, 2008 by xxxevilgrinxxx

http://www.crooksandliars.com/…
John Amato

OK, yea I know. Another BushCo. corruption case coming out of the DOJ. What’s new, right? Well, everything. Bush keeps telling us that his presidency can’t be measured correctly until years and years have passed us by.
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Operation Orchard

Posted in CBRN Warfare, created terror on April 28th, 2008 by xxxevilgrinxxx

http://www.motherjones.com/…
Late last week, two senior US intelligence and a senior administration official provided background briefings to Congressional committees and the media on what they said was the evidence of North Korean involvement in a covert Syrian nuclear reactor. The facility was destroyed by Israeli air strikes last September, in an operation dubbed “Operation Orchard” that was subject to an Israeli news blackout.
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