* Three words: rocket launcher bong
* “Kimstock 2007″
* No iPods for Norks
* IEDs’ secret sauce
* Los Alamos flops another security test
* Bush-Maliki confab cancelled
* War chewing up $2B worth of gear, every month
* Ancient computer, super-smart
* Chem-bio bowling
* How our foes get our tech
* Secrecy News vs. NBC
* Carter’s 10 Iraq commandments
* Tons of armor pics
* UK grand challenge online…
* …Brits’ helmet-cam footage, too
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“Approximately 10% of the degrees awarded in these areas were awarded to students from 26 countries that are on the State Department
IEDs’ secret sauce
Mr. Murdock’s first paragraph bemoans Hezbollah’s use of ball bearings inside Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). Good for him.
Mr. Murdock says that “among Islamofascists, they ( ball bearings) do exactly what Islamofascists do best: Destroy, destroy, destroy.” Quite right.
What Mr. Murdock does not say is that, at least since Messrs. Misznay and Schardin in
WWII, this is not unusual. We know ball bearings are effective. In fact, the best known and most commonly copied device using ball bearings is probably an anti-personnel weapon known as the U.S. Armed Forces Claymore landmine. If imitation is the highest form of flattery look no further than the former Soviet Union, Serbia, France, South Africa and Israel for copies.
I would suspect that now is not the time to say whos’ device is more evil than anyone else’s. Now is the time to value life and look towards solutions.
I think the bone of contention here is the word “watch.”
Is there a separate “‘watch’ list [for] state sponsors of terrorism,” apart from the official “state sponsors of terrorism” list, that I don’t know of? If there is, I’d appreciate a link.
Haninah
Haninah,
After 9/11, the U.S. State Department developed a list of countries for which additional reviews would be required for persons from those countries requesting visas to the U.S. This was their “watch” list. The list included countries which were of concern due to their ties to terror or potential ties to terror, whether officially or simply because of cultural issues.
So rather than what I said in the post (State Department
I appreciate the explanation. I think there’s a serious difference between what you described in detail and the impression given by the phrase “on the State Department
Once again, you bring up a very good point that encourages thought. It is true that some university professors lament the training of foreign nationals due to the export of technology that our country needs, i.e., more highly trained engineers. This encourages the transport of industry overseas, and is not good for our economy.
On the other hand, there is still the issue of the use of that technology to harm the U.S., and this was the primary point of my post. The danger here is that we will not know just how many highly-trained engineers we have sent overseas to work to harm us or our interests until it is too late to do anything about it.
Finally, the point is that there is no real difference between directly giving our technology away (for instance, simply walking into the Chinese embassy and handing over design details of nuclear weapons) and training PhDs in U.S. universities, except time. Given the right time, the technology can be turned against us by engineers we trained.
I have posted on the Iranian nuclear program, IAEA, and the heavy water reactor. Still following.
Thanks.
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would suspect that now is not the time to say whos’ device is more evil than anyone else’s. Now is the time to value life and look towards solutions
would suspect that now is not the time to say whos’ device is more evil than anyone else’s. Now is the time to value life and look towards solutions
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