Friday, December 23, 2005
Mosques monitored for radiation: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials have secretly monitored radiation levels at Muslim sites, including mosques and private homes, since September 11, 2001 as part of a top secret program searching for nuclear bombs, U.S. News and World Report said on Friday.
The news magazine said in its online edition that the far-reaching program covered more than a hundred sites in the Washington, D.C., area and at least five other cities.
"In numerous cases, the monitoring required investigators to go on to the property under surveillance, although no search warrants or court orders were ever obtained, according to those with knowledge of the program," the magazine said.
The report comes a week after revelations that the Bush administration had authorized eavesdropping on people in the United States. U.S. President George W. Bush has defended that covert program and vowed to continue the practice, saying it was vital to protect the country.
Senior U.S. officials, including FBI Director Robert Mueller, have repeatedly said Islamic militants appeared intent on acquiring weapons of mass destruction for an attack against the United States.
Mueller said in February he was "very concerned with the growing body of sensitive reporting that continues to show al Qaeda's clear intention to obtain and ultimately use some form of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-energy explosives material in its attacks against America."
Read the rest at Yahoonews.com
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Can anyone say that if a nuke was hidden in a Mosque but the Bush administration didn't do its best to discover such a fact ahead of its usage, the Democrats wouldn't scream from the rooftops that "Bush knew" and that such an attack would be all his "fault"?
Further, can anyone in this day and age imagine that a Mosque would never be used for such a purpose? Can anyone still be that naive?
# posted by Publius @ 12/23/2005 07:40:00 PM 
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