One of the fears I have is the detonation of a dirty bomb……I have written about the different situations where nuke material has been involved……check them out……
This one I wrote for my friends over at Legationes……
Source: Dirty business in Moldova – Legationes
I then followed that one up with a post about the possibility and the aftermath of a dirty bomb…..
This one I wrote for my friends over at Ace News Room……
Source: It’s A Dirty Business | Ace News Room
All this is just my intro to something I read in the news the other day…….
Iraq is searching for “highly dangerous” radioactive material stolen last year, according to an environment ministry document and seven security, environmental and provincial officials who fear it could be used as a weapon if acquired by Islamic State.
Source: Exclusive: Radioactive material stolen in Iraq raises security fears | Reuters
Once again nuke material is at danger…….a dirty bomb is not that difficult to make for would-be terrorists…..as I said before the damage area may not be that substantial but the “fear” factor makes it a worthwhile endeavor for these bloodthirsty pigs….
This is a situation that should send a shiver down the spine of anyone that hears this news……
An updated versions has come out…….
A laptop-sized case containing “highly dangerous” radioactive materials has gone missing from a storage facility in Iraq, Reuters reports. And Iraqi officials are worried it may have been swiped by ISIS, which could use the iridium-192 inside to make a dirty bomb. “Shaping headlines is essential to ISIS’ jihad,” a terrorism expert tells Fox News. “Beheadings, explosions, and most brutal acts have become stale. A dirty bomb attack would be major news, regardless of how many immediate casualties occur.” The iridium was part of a camera used to find flaws in materials used to build pipelines. It belonged to a Turkish company but was being stored in a facility in Basra belonging to a US oil company.
The case was discovered missing in November, and it’s unclear if it was stolen or just misplaced. It it was stolen, the perpetrator likely had access and knowledge of the facility, as there were no signs of a break-in. The US State Department says there’s no indication ISIS has the radioactive materials. While not as powerful as a nuclear bomb, a dirty bomb made using the iridium would have the capability of making a large area dangerously radioactive. The contents of the case wouldn’t even have to be turned into a bomb to be dangerous, with mishandling them or just leaving them out somewhere being enough to put many people in jeopardy. News of the missing iridium comes amid increasing reports of ISIS using chemical weapons.
We can only pray that it is found before some dick turns it into a bomb…..
Oh, goody… Let’s think of some more stuff to terrify the ignorant…. My feelings say, if a dirty bomb went off, no matter who set it off, the resultant paroxysms of fear it would generate would spark a world-wide conflagration of immense proportion, possibly the end game so many fear….
All we can do is control our own fears, and stay ready to jump in the right direction, if any are available….
gigoid, the dubious
Uh, nuke material…Moldova….Wasn’t that the plot from this week’s episode of Madam Secretary?
http://www.cbs.com/shows/madam-secretary/episodes/214879/
While nuke material is far more concerning than 99% of the shit we hear, at some point, we have to realize Terror is all about making us scared and not actually achieving anything. The more we shit our pants, the more they get what they want.
All politics is local. It’s all about looking like the toughest gang in da ‘hood. ISIS is winning that PR battle. But PR is all they can do outside the Arab street.
Sorry do not watch much “normal” TV…..
Pay-per-view porn only -eh? And probably not your “normal” porn either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who's_Nailin'_Paylin%3F
Nope…..my cable company has eliminated pay-per-view….and it was horribly bad soft porn….I prefer news and history….a couple of reg shows now and then…..
Shit! We’re far from Austria. But up here in Canuckistan, you not only get PPV porn, you get medium-to-semi-hardcore porn after midnight with an upper-tier cable package. I saw Who’s Nailin’ Paylin on Canada’s version of HBO. Political intrigue, satire, acting more convincing than Palin herself..two thumbs up! (Up what, I’m not saying) 😉
But yeah, this story WAS the plot from this week’s Madam Secretary….the Moldova nuke theft thing…I mean.
I live in the Deep South……bad soft porn is the best we could do….now it is gone…I guess they figure that the internet will give the pervs all they need…..chuq
Rome was sacked by Muslims in 846 AD during the great conquests of Islam after the time of Mohammed.
During the 8th and 9th centuries, the Muslim Arabs (then called Saracens in Europe) were rapaciously invading Christendom through Southern Italy which they succeeded in conquering by fire, murder, rapine and the sword. Sailing from newly acquired bases in North Africa which they had just stolen from the Christians of the Eastern Roman Empire, the had conquered Sicily and were now bent upon seizing the rest of the peninsula.
They had earlier been rebuffed in France in 732 by King Charles Martel, the grandfather of Charlemagne, but they had got as far as Tours in Nothern France. King Charles was the first to halt their seemingly inexorable advance. Thereafter they retired to Spain and parts of Southern France and settled. They retained their hold on what had once been Catholic Visigothic Spain for the next 800 years! They were not finally ejected from Christian Spain until 1491 by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand.
Under Pope Paschal I (817-824), the relics of the holy martyrs were concealed in the walls of the city of Rome. When Rome was sacked, Paschal’s careful precautions did not prevent the wholesale spoliation and robbery of Basilica of Saint Peter itself, nor, indeed, of San Paolo fuori le Mura (St Paul’s outside the Walls), because they both lay outside the walls of the city of Rome.
Later, a second wall was constructed on the other side of the Tiber from the main city area. It was constructed by order of Pope Leo IV and so this enclosure was called the Leonine City.
The Islamic conquest and domination of Sicily, as well as parts of southern Italy began in the 7th century after the foundation of Islam and the attempt by the Muslim leaders to conquer the world.
By Koranic tradition, Islam makes its attempts to re-conquer the world in the 7th or 8th decade of every century and does not stop until it is halted by force. When stopped it generally lies low until the 7th or 8th decade of the next century when it then makes another attempt at world domination.
How, then, can it call itself a religion of peace? It does so because it means by peace the eventual peace that will, it says, be the consequence of the conquest of the world for Islam. In the meantime, however, it is war.
(Retrieved from, http://www.romanchristiandom.blogspot.com)
The Battle of Tours France is said to be the most important battle ever won for the sake of civilization.
What’s next?
It was interesting once…..the third time it is just irritatingly redundant….I got it you hate Muslims and the fact the beat Roman….may we move beyond that….