Radioactive Material Stolen In Iraq Raises Security Fears

31 Comments on "Radioactive Material Stolen In Iraq Raises Security Fears"

Go Speed Racer on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 6:48 am 



its getting more scary.

my cat is now a muslim
http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljllp7Qqqo1qdvbl3o1_500.jpg

and the cat got more radicalized
https://farenheit211.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/islamicterroristkitten.jpg?w=497&h=369

then when it could get no worse, now the cat has converted the dog too
http://www.asmporegon.org/culture/bestof2008/Beaugureau/GoodDog.jpg

so the way to keep the roof on the house, is i will vote for donald trump.

peakyeast on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 7:29 am 



Careful now Speed racer – you are balacing on a knife edge begging for a kidnapping to a secret prison without any trial(s) or just a drone missile in the head – that is – if you live in the U.S.. – And your cats life is similarly being risked.

Best case is that you will be accused of providing support for terrorist felines – probably as well as training. IOW: You are al-queda leadership.

Do remember: – A computer has more sense of fun than the bureaucrats and their henchmen.

Go Speed Racer on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 8:20 am 



oh Schitt, a black helicopter is circling above my house. and troops are pouring out of SWAT vans.

Rattus on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 12:29 pm 



And why exactly does an oilfield service company need to store highly radiactive material in their storage facility??

Apneaman on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 1:17 pm 



“They really don’t want this out”: The biggest Iraq War scandal that nobody’s talking about

http://www.salon.com/2016/02/16/burn_pits/

PracticalMaina on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 2:45 pm 



Apneaman
I was wondering what Bidens son died from, makes sense as to why we don’t hear about it. Wouldn’t want to upset the pollution process.

PracticalMaina on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 2:53 pm 



Soldiers and fire fighters get cancer, politicians get kick backs, bribes and pardons.

Plantagenet on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 3:10 pm 



They don’t talk much about the burn pits in Iraq because some of them were used to dispose of WMDs, including mustard gas, and its not PC to ever discuss WMDs in Iraq.

http://burnpit.us/2014/10/must-read-nyt-chemical-weapons-more-prevalent-iraq-we-were-told

In fact, I’m surprised to see this story about IS stealing nuclear material that can be used to make WMDs. I guess nobody cares about WMDs anymore, so its OK for IS to get them.

Cheers!

twocats on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 3:46 pm 



The material, which uses gamma rays to test flaws in materials used for oil and gas pipelines in a process called industrial gamma radiography, is owned by Istanbul-based SGS Turkey, according to the document and officials. [article]

plant, you were doing so good – you had had one comment in a row recently that wasn’t completely cuckoo – the streak is over!

Apneaman on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 3:48 pm 



Planty, I hope you get bit by one of those zika bugs and you get a big fat rubber head and spend the rest of your life drooling on yourself (would anyone notice the difference?). Anything to relieve the world of your imbecilic rantings. Even a bug that would make your fingers swell up so you couldn’t type anymore would be just as good.

onlooker on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 4:11 pm 



haha even Trump knows Bush and Co. lied about WMD in Iraq. And even it their was is that a reason to invade them. Just lets take a deep breadth and put some reason into these conversations.

Plantagenet on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 4:40 pm 



Do you sheeple ever read the NY Times? If not, then you should read their article about the cancers and other diseases affecting our soldiers who were exposed to the dangerous chemicals that were incinerated in the burn pits of Iraq. You can access the NY Time story on this topic by clicking the link I provided above. It goes first to a summary of the NY Times story at the website “BURNPIT” which focusses on the Iraqi burn pits, and from there you can click on to the original story in the NY Times, if you are a registered with them..

Here’s an excerpt from the NY Times story on the burn pits:

From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule.
In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.
Congress, too, was only partly informed, while troops and officers were instructed to be silent or give deceptive accounts of what they had found. “ ’Nothing of significance’ is what I was ordered to say,” said Jarrod Lampier, a recently retired Army major who was present for the largest chemical weapons discovery of the war: more than 2,400 nerve-agent rockets unearthed in 2006 at a former Republican Guard compound.
Jarrod L. Taylor, a former Army sergeant on hand for the destruction of mustard shells that burned two soldiers in his infantry company, joked of “wounds that never happened” from “that stuff that didn’t exist.” The public, he said, was misled for a decade. “I love it when I hear, ‘Oh there weren’t any chemical weapons in Iraq,’ ” he said. “There were plenty.”

Cheers!

Plantagenet on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 4:50 pm 



I love the way Onlooker is so gullible he believes what Donald Trump says! Wow, man.

Hahahahahahahah!

Apeman, as usual, writes a mean little post, showing once again he is a mean little person.

Twocats is at least sensible in his post, but apparently he didn’t notice this whole thread about IS trying †o get nuclear material in Iraq to make WMDS. Good heavens, twocats, the article has the acronym WMD in it—-that can’t be right since you KNOW there are no WMDs in Iraq, right?

Meanwhile, I have to express my support for the US troops who were actually there and who actually suffered injuries from the chemical weapons, and the NY Times reporters who talked to the US troops and who uncovered this story using internal government documents obtained through FOIA.

CHEERS!

onlooker on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 4:54 pm 



Yes their might of been chemical weapons in Iraq, but guess what we have also left a trail of dangerous munitions in Iraq, like left over radioactive munitions not to mention our use or our surrogates use of our own horrid weapons that burn horribly not to mention the devastation we have inflicted upon that country. So if you want to talk about legacies there are some for you. Oh and it is precisely the sheeple who read and believe the NYT.

Plantagenet on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 5:12 pm 



@onlooker:

You say you get your information from Donald Trump, who says he gets his information from “the shows” on TV.

Gosh…why aren’t I impressed?

—–

OK, more seriously, if you admit there were some WMDs in Iraq as our troops say, then why repeat Trump’s lies that there were no WMDs? There is no way around the fact that Hussein used chemical WMDs against Iran and then against the Kurds in Iraq. Our troops say they found leftover WMDs from the arsenal Hussein had when he used them against Iran. That seems reasonable to me.

Have a great day—CHEERS!

Apneaman on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 5:13 pm 



yes, planty we are well aware you are totally informed by the NYT and FOXnews and the other mouthpieces of empire. You’re constant parroting of their talking points makes that clear. NYT says Glut. Planty says glut. So you read things and repeat them. Am I supposed to be impressed at your repeating skills? You are a mindless fucking Merican retard who simply goes around repeating shit you don’t even understand. I bet your husband was disappointed on your wedding night when he attempted to fuck your brains out and discovered nothing was there.

bug on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 5:17 pm 



hahahaha, Bugs Don’t Bite Plantys.

Plantagenet on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 5:25 pm 



apeman

Your potty mouth is overflowing again. Please flush and then use tidy bowl to make it clean and fresh.

Cheers!

Apneaman on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 5:38 pm 



Planty, just because Trump is full of shit does not mean everything he barfs up is a lie. One of the reasons he is so popular is because he speaks some truths about the lies and deceit of the establishment. Course only your fellow merican tards believe he can “make America great again”

Regan was claiming he was going to make merica great again in 1980. 36 years later is a long time to not be great. The less great you get the more certain you people are of your greatness. The only way I would believe anything any american said is if they proved themselves to be intelligent and aware. Something you have yet to demonstrate.

You think I’m mean? You are ugly. The ugly self righteous merican arguing about your god given right to go into other people’s countries on bullshit pretexts and slaughter hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children. Nothing is uglier and meaner than you murdering fucks and you deserve every bit of suffering thats coming. France and Great Britain have hundreds of WMD’s. Go invade them. Y’all mericans (90%) are such great patriots planty. As long as love of ones country does not include the land or the air or the water or the poor. Patriots my ass.

Apneaman on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 5:45 pm 



Capitalism = WMD against the poor.

San Francisco tech worker: ‘I don’t want to see homeless riff-raff’

In an open letter to the city’s mayor Ed Lee, entrepreneur Justin Keller said he is ‘outraged’ that wealthy workers have to see people in pain and despair

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/17/san-francisco-tech-open-letter-i-dont-want-to-see-homeless-riff-raff

Sounds like the attitudes of the 18&19th century capitalists are back. Very patriotic.

Apneaman on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 5:47 pm 



Proud to be an Merican where at least I know bla bla bla.

“I Guess It’s Food Stamps”: 400,000 Americans In Jeopardy As Giant Pension Fund Plans 50% Benefit Cuts

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-18/i-guess-its-food-stamps-400000-americans-jeopardy-giant-pension-fund-plans-50-benefi

Davy on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 7:07 pm 



Jobless Benefits Claims Soar 100% In Canada’s Dying Oil Patch As Construction Jobs Plunge 84%

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-18/jobless-benefits-claims-double-canadas-dying-oil-patch-construction-jobs-plunge-84

Apneaman on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 7:12 pm 



Across The Country, People Are Breathing Unhealthy Levels Of A Major Pollutant

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/18/3750812/sulfur-designations-epa/

Apneaman on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 7:13 pm 



“Thirsty for Democracy: The Poisoning of an American City”: Complete Democracy Now! Special on Flint

http://www.democracynow.org/2016/2/17/thirsty_for_democracy_the_poisoning_of_an

Apneaman on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 7:14 pm 



American Greed = Global WMD

Methane-Spewing U.S. Linked to Global Surge in Potent Greenhouse Gas
New study shows U.S. may be responsible for up to ‘60% of the global growth of atmospheric methane seen in the past decade’

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/17/methane-spewing-us-linked-global-surge-potent-greenhouse-gas

Apneaman on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 7:20 pm 



EPA Releases List of Communities with Dangerous Air Pollution

“Sulfur dioxide pollution, which largely comes from coal plants, is a very dangerous threat to the health of our families and communities. It’s so much of a danger that even short-term exposure for as little as five minutes is associated with breathing problems like asthma attacks, particularly among vulnerable populations like the elderly and asthmatics. On top of that, the medical community has established connections between chronic exposure and even more serious conditions, such as aggravation of cardiac conditions, hospitalization, and even premature death.”

“Parents shouldn’t have to worry about their kids when they are playing in their backyards or their schoolyards, but in many communities across the U.S., that’s frequently the case because of dangerous air pollution coming from nearby coal plants.”

http://www.sierraclub.org/compass/2016/02/epa-releases-list-communities-dangerous-air-pollution

Apneaman on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 7:22 pm 



Preliminary EPA designation says Labadie coal plant exceeds federal pollution standard

“The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to designate the area around Ameren’s Labadie coal-fired power plant in Franklin and St. Charles Counties as exceeding federal air quality standards.

The EPA said in a letter to Missouri released Wednesday that the “nonattainment” area does not meet health-safety standards for sulfur dioxide pollution strengthened in 2010.”

http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/preliminary-epa-designation-says-labadie-coal-plant-exceeds-federal-pollution-standard

Apneaman on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 7:28 pm 



And the biggest WMD? It’s going off in the Arctic right now.

No Winter For the Arctic in 2016 — NASA Marks Hottest January Ever Recorded

“The Scientists are floored and we should be too. The global heat and especially the extremely high temperature departures we’ve seen in the Arctic over the past month are flat-out unprecedented. It’s freakish-strange. And what it looks like, to this particular observer, is that the seasonality of our world is changing. What we’re witnessing, at this time — it looks like the beginning of the end for Winter as we know it.

Hottest January on Record — But the Arctic is Just Outlandish

Anyone who observes the Arctic — from scientists, to environmentalists, to emerging threats specialists, to weather and climate enthusiasts, to just regular people unsettled by the rapidly unraveling state of our global climate system — should be very, very concerned. The human greenhouse gas emission — now pushing CO2 levels to above 405 parts per million and adding in a host of additional heat trapping gasses — appears to be rapidly forcing our world to warm. To warm most swiftly in one of the absolute worst places imaginable — the Arctic.

Not only was January of 2016 the hottest such month ever recorded in the 136 year NASA global climate record. Not only did January show the highest temperature departure from average for a single month — at +1.13 C above NASA’s 20th Century base-line and about +1.38 C above 1880s averages (just 0.12 C shy of the dangerous 1.5 C mark). But what we observed in the global distribution of those record hot temperatures was both odd and disturbing.”

“Why is this all so ominous?

It would be bad if it were only a case that warmth in the Arctic just resulted in the ever-more-rapid melting of glaciers — forcing seas to rise by centimeters, inches and feet. It would be rather bad if polar warming amplified as white ice on land and over the ocean withdrew — turning a heat-reflecting surface into dark blue, green, and brown heat-absorbing feature. It would be pretty amazingly bad if such heat also resulted in permafrost thaw — again worsening human-forced warming by unlocking up to 1,300 billion tons of carbon and eventually transferring about half of that into our atmosphere. And it would be rather bad if all that extra heat in the Arctic started to meddle with the Northern Hemisphere’s weather — by altering the flow of the Jet Stream. By resulting in very persistent drought-producing ridges and storm-producing troughs.”

“Sadly, these events are no longer just hypothetical. The sea ice is retreating. The permafrost is thawing. The glaciers are melting. And the flow of the Jet Stream appears to be weakening.”

http://robertscribbler.com/2016/02/18/no-winter-for-the-arctic-in-2016-nasa-marks-hottest-january-ever-recorded/

makati1 on Thu, 18th Feb 2016 8:16 pm 



The Empire laying ground for a huge false flag event in the US in the near future? Desperation breeds insanity.

twocats on Fri, 19th Feb 2016 10:16 am 



Ok plant, I’ll play your stupid little game. I followed the leads and the fact that no one, and I mean almost no one picked up the WMD story you are talking about is this:

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-right-finds-new-ways-flub-wmd-story

what this article shows isn’t that Bush/Cheney weren’t lying about WMD’s – THEY WERE. It shows that the US doesn’t provide adequate protection and training to its soldiers tasked with cleaning up EXPIRED USELESS DECADES OLD wmds. You see those key descriptors? You see how those munitions could only hurt people stupid enough to move them around and try to burn them or whatever?

So the REUTERS ARTICLE (which talks about NUCLEAR MATERIAL ORIGINATING FROM TURKEY – you fucking idiot) that this thread is BASED on isn’t even about your stupid BURN PITS, and the BURN PITS angle you posit is a dead end.

I’m agree that apneaman’s posts here are off topic, but YOU clearly do not understand the VERY VERY limited shelf life of CHEMICAL WMDS and the fact that EVEN IF IRAQ had chemical weapons, what were they going to do!!?? Launch them with ICBMs THEY DIDN’T HAVE half way around the world to put a few hundred people in the hospital and maybe kill a dozen or so??

http://thediplomat.com/2013/08/chemical-weapons-are-not-a-wmd/

There.

onlooker on Fri, 19th Feb 2016 10:57 am 



And for those who see the terrorist angle and the capacity of a given terrorist cell to use biological/chemical/nuclear weapons and inflict large casualties that it about espionage-counter intelligence work not invading a friggin country!