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Sunday, March 18

'Peanuts' for Petraeus

by Roland, the Gunslinger on Sun 18 Mar 2007 04:46 AM EDT

Everybody's a General in the Army called Congress

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Lights, Camera . . . Candidacy?

by Roland, the Gunslinger on Sun 18 Mar 2007 02:50 AM EDT

Fred Thompson is shaking up the GOP presidential field. And he's not even running yet.

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'BBC Arabic Service anti-western'

by Roland, the Gunslinger on Sun 18 Mar 2007 02:43 AM EDT

Frank Stewart, a Jerusalem-based Middle East expert, said that the World Service's Arabic radio service - which is soon to be supplemented by a television version - has been consistently hostile to the US and British governments while treating Arab leaders with kid gloves.

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So-called experts "close lid" on 'suitcase nukes'? Not so fast. Polonium-210, the fatally poisoned smuggler, and the coming American Hiroshima

by Roland, the Gunslinger on Sun 18 Mar 2007 02:13 AM EDT

This brings us to the mysterious case of Litvinenko.

The neutron source or “triggers” of the suitcase nukes are composed of beryllium-9 and polonium-210. When these two elements are combined, the alpha particle is absorbed by the nucleus of the beryllium causing it to decay by emitting a neutron. Such “triggers” were a feature of early nuclear weapons in the U.S. and Soviet stockpiles.

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