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May 10, 2003

War

Dirty Bombs.

Nick at The Agonist points us to this article at the Washington Post: Seven Nuclear Sites Looted. As Nick says, "If so, there are potentially significant consequences for public health and the spread of materials to build a nuclear or radiological bomb." Um, yeah. From the article:

It is still not clear what has been lost in the sacking of Iraq's nuclear establishment. But it is well documented that looters roamed unrestrained among stores of chemical elements and scientific files that would speed development, in the wrong hands, of a nuclear or radiological bomb. Many of the files, and some of the containers that held radioactive sources, are missing.

The Independent has a related story that illustrates a different view of the situation, in which local villagers may be paying for U.S. indifference and incompetence for decades, with their lives and the lives of their children.

As for the rest of us, let us just hope that organized terrorists haven't absconded with sufficient material for the much-feared "dirty bomb." We might recall that a certain Jose Padilla has been incarcerated for over a year on the mere suspicion that he intended to build such a bomb. As it was the duty of Rumsfeld and Bush (among others) to see that exactly this sort of thing did not happen, I say that they should have the cells on either side of Padilla's.

Posted by Frank at May 10, 2003 12:44 PM