- it is worth remembering that since the september 11, 2001 attacks on the world trade center and the pentagon, other than the anthrax attacks in 2001 -- the perpetrator/s of those incidents remain at large -- there has been a series of seemingly well-orchestrated false alarms: terrorist attacks on bridges, water systems, transportation hubs, and nuclear power plants have not occurred; the use of chemical or biological weapons have not materialized; there have been no ''dirty bombers'' or suicide bombers; and the much-hyped smallpox epidemic -- remember when president bush pushed for a national smallpox vaccination program
(Working for Change).
- a man who used to visit iraq on behalf of george bush's dad to flog saddam hussein tracking satellites, helicopter gun-ships, germ-seed for anthrax, pumps for nuclear plants and the ingredients to make chemical weapons
(Daily Mirror).
- greens senator kerry nettle talked about the successful campaigns to stop the jabiluka uranium mine and to stop the proposed nuclear waste dump near woomera, on land compulsorily acquired by the federal government
(Green Left Weekly).
- according to white house and washington beltway insiders, the bush administration, worried that it could lose the presidential election to senator john f. kerry, has initiated plans to launch a military strike on iran's top islamic leadership, its nuclear reactor at bushehr on the persian gulf, and key nuclear targets throughout the country, including the main underground research site at natanz in central iran and another in isfahan
(Scoop).
- he indicated that recent proposals by president bush and the international atomic energy agency are aimed at closing existing loopholes and arresting any further spread of the technology
(USEC Inc.).
- ecomole: dick cheney and mexico's oil, nuclear reactors are 'sitting ducks,' bush's war saves halliburton's heinie, can't see the forest for the sleaze (05/13/02) (Earth Island Institute).
- dick cheney and mexico's oil, nuclear reactors are 'sitting ducks,' bush's war saves halliburton's heinie, can't see the forest for the sleaze (Earth Island Institute).
- around the bend:george w. bush's nuclear waste gambit: a gift to terrorists (Earth Island Institute).
- as expected, president bush endorsed energy secretary spencer abraham's recommendation to store 77,000 tons of high-level nuclear waste in an underground facility at yucca mountain, 100-miles northwest of las vegas, nevada (Sierra Club).
- ''a john f. kerry administration would propose to iran that the islamic state be allowed to keep its nuclear power plants in exchange for giving up the right to retain the nuclear fuel that could be used for bomb-making, democratic vice presidential nominee john edwards said in an interview yesterday
(Scoop).
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