Oliver Willis » The Dirty Bomb Scenario:
(APReuters) — At first people thought the smell was a simple gas leak of some sort, but mere moments after the odor overwhelmed the lunchtime crowd in downtown Baltimore, it became clear that this was something much worse. Almost simultaneously thousands of gallons of irradiated materials were exploded in “dirty bombs” in major American cities – including Baltimore, New York, Miami, and Philadelphia. Hundreds died in the initial blast, with the death toll expected to number in the thousands as the numerous radiation-infested clouds sweep across America.
“We never saw it coming”, said President Bush in a press release issued from what sources close to the administration describe as a “secure” location, “I have appointed Vice President Cheney to head up an elite task force to investigate who exactly was asleep at the wheel during this tragedy.”
The information was preliminary, but experts have already mapped the sites of all the dirty bombs to be in close proximity to ports recently put under the control of the United Arab Emirates, a middle east nation with some ties to Al Qaeda terrorism. “It’s pretty easy to connect the dots,” said Philip Granger, a chemical weapons expert who consults with the Department of Homeland Security, “once they took over the ports, it was child’s play to get these bombs inside the border. Positioning them was a bit tougher, but once they were on American shores they became ticking time bombs.”
Glad no West Coast ports are part of this, but I wonder if anything else has been overlooked:
A major part of the story, however, has been mostly overlooked. The company, Dubai Ports World, would also control the movement of military equipment on behalf of the U.S. Army through two other ports. From today’s edition of the British paper Lloyd’s List:
[P&O] has just renewed a contract with the United States Surface Deployment and Distribution Command to provide stevedoring [loading and unloading] of military equipment at the Texan ports of Beaumont and Corpus Christi through 2010.
According to the journal Army Logistician “Almost 40 percent of the Army cargo deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom flows through these two ports.”
And then of course we have the SecDef claiming he knew nothing about this, even though he was part of a unanimous vote to approve the transfer.