Here's a little bit of disturbing news. I wonder if the Miserable Failure had this guy in mind at the SOTU? Probably not, since it would have required actual Intelligence.
When police caught up with him on May 31, Tedo Makeria was headed toward Tbilisi's main rail station, his lethal cargo hidden in boxes lined with lead so thick his taxi sagged from the weight. The suspicious policeman who halted the cab had barely cracked the trunk when he noticed the boxes and the distinctive labels that warned, "Danger: Radiation."
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Inside Makeria's boxes were two capsules of highly radioactive metals -- strontium and cesium -- of a type that terrorism experts say can be used in a dirty bomb, a device that spews radiation but does not trigger a nuclear explosion. A third container held a vial of brown liquid that Georgian police identified as the substance used in mustard gas, one of the earliest chemical weapons. Only later did police learn Makeria's role in the affair. He was a courier for criminals trading in components and materials for weapons of mass destruction.
Hmmmm, WMD pre-cursors found and they didn't even have to stage an invasion. Amazing...and it didn't require Top Secret stamped on a FISA warrant issued under the Patriot Act to come up with this. Best of all, it was reported in plain English in the Washington Post. Simply Amazing what good police work can accomplish.
posted by Jo Fish on 11.30.03 at 09:36 PM
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This is precisely why I think the War on Terra is being fought bass-ackwards.
Good police work is the way Europe dealt with the waves of terrorism that struck all over there in the late 60's and 70's. Good police work, vigilance, good intelligence, and - when necessary - backed up by selective military force. IT WORKED.
But Dubya & The Chickenhawk Cabal have too many big, expensive explosives to play with and a standing military at their beck & call - it's just too much for them to resist.
Interpol, NATO, etc. - well, I guess that was just a little too Olde Europe for our fearless leaders. Or more likely - good police & intelligence work was something Clinton would do. Heaven forbid.
Does this now put Georgia ahead on the list of next targets? Syria and Iran were suppose to be next. King George II probably doesn't even know about it because Condi doesn't want to be the one to tell him.
