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The Turks and Israelis had planted “moles” in military and academic institutions which handled nuclear technology. Edmonds says there were several transactions of nuclear material every month, with the Pakistanis being among the eventual buyers. “The network appeared to be obtaining information from every nuclear agency in the United States,” she said.
They were helped, she says, by the high-ranking State Department official who provided some of their moles – mainly PhD students – with security clearance to work in sensitive nuclear research facilities. These included the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory in New Mexico, which is responsible for the security of the US nuclear deterrent.
The Turks, she says, often acted as a conduit for the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan’s spy agency, because they were less likely to attract suspicion. Venues such as the American Turkish Council in Washington were used to drop off the cash, which was picked up by the official. Edmonds said: “I heard at least three transactions like this over a period of 2½ years. There are almost certainly more.”
The Pakistani operation was led by General Mahmoud Ahmad, then the ISI chief.
Intercepted communications showed Ahmad and his colleagues stationed in Washington were in constant contact with attachés in the Turkish embassy.
Intelligence analysts say that members of the ISI were close to Al-Qaeda before and after 9/11. Indeed, Ahmad was accused of sanctioning a $100,000 wire payment to Mohammed Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers, immediately before the attacks.
Originally posted by OrionStars
It is plausible until radiation levels were measured to prove or disprove it around the WTC and other parts of NYC. Were there any radiation levels tested at the site and in surrounding areas?
Traces of tritiated water (HTO) were detected at [the]World Trade Center
(WTC) ground zero after the 9/11/01 terrorist attack. A method of ultralow-
background liquid scintillation counting was used after distilling HTO from the samples. A water sample from the WTC sewer, collected on 9/13/01, contained 0.174 plus or minus 0.074 (2s) nCi/L of HTO. A split water sample, collected on 9/21/01 from the basement of WTC Building 6, contained 3.53 plus or minus 0.17 and 2.83 plus or minus 0.15 nCi/L, respectively. Several water and vegetation samples were analyzed from areas outside the ground zero, located in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and Kensico Reservoir. No HTO above the background was found in those samples. All these results are well below the levels of concern to human exposure.
Originally posted by razor1000
It was two planes that hit those buildings i saw them and thats that, i was watching the live coverage from my airforce base in NC and trust me it was the real thing because they locked down the base immediatly after and out came the guns and chem gear because they didnt know who was going to get hit
Originally posted by Nikolas
A hydrogen bomb would have left radiation in danger levels.
Originally posted by bsbray11
You would not have some sort of understandable graphs or tables/figures for these kind of variations? It would be interesting to try and grasp!
Originally posted by Nikolas
The only nukes that have generated impressive EMPs were monstrous in their yields, and would most certainly be visible if planted in the cores or even underground the towers. You have to go into megatons of explosive yield to reach the 1000 volt-meter range for an EMP's peak. If you reduce the size of the device to a device of only a few hundred tons, for example, that would leave you with EMPs that would be in single volts at best. This may cause temporary noise and static on audio and video lines but it wouldn't do much else, and it may not even do that much.
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[edit on 20-1-2008 by EarthDweller]
Originally posted by bsbray11
If you reduce the size of the device to a device of only a few hundred tons, for example, that would leave you with EMPs that would be in single volts at best. This may cause temporary noise and static on audio and video lines but it wouldn't do much else, and it may not even do that much.