Re: Bin Laden's attempts to acquire nuclear materials

From: Tiberius Gracchus (cryofan@mylinuxisp.com)
Date: Fri Sep 14 2001 - 04:59:45 MDT


On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 00:06:01 -0400, you wrote:

>"Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>>
>> Bin Laden's attempts to acquire nuclear materials:
>>
>> http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/reports/binladen.htm
>> http://www.google.com/search?q=laden+nuclear
>>
>
>So he may have as many as 20 "suitcase nukes".
>
>According to this page:
>
>http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/isreport/septoct99/binladen.html
>
>it may be internal US policy to allow use of nukes against "nonstate
>actors" who have been shown to possess WMD.

These stories should hit the media soon. They should be very big
stories.
This changes a lot as far as I am concerned. We should try to get the
cooperation of China, Russia and Pakistan. If we can get that, then we
should go after Bin Laden with all possible force.



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