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Subject: DIDN'T WORK! Australian gun control-a thought to warm some of your hearts...
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:15:29 EDT
From: Sh0shanna@aol.com
To:
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:08 PM
Subject: Australian gun control Here's a thought to warm some of your hearts...
From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia
Hi Yanks, I thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down Under. It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.
The first year results are now in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent, Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent; Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)! In the state of Victoria alone,homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. (Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in,
the criminals did not! and criminals still possess their guns!)
While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed. There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in "successfully ridding Australian society of guns." You won't see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the State Assembly disseminating this information.
The Australian experience proves it. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the law-aBiding citizens.
Take note Americans, before it's too late!
FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST. [ I DID ] DON'T BE A MEMBER OF THE SILENT MAJORITY. BE OF THE VOCAL MINORITY WHO WON'T LET THIS HAPPEN IN THE! U.S.A
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http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050419-102106-5456r
Reports reveal Zarqawi nuclear threat
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published April 20, 2005
Recurrent intelligence reports say al Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi
has obtained a nuclear device or is preparing a radiological explosive
-- or dirty bomb -- for an attack, according to U.S. officials, who also
say analysts are unable to gauge the reliability of the information's
sources.
The classified reports have been distributed to U.S. intelligence
agencies for several consecutive months and say Zarqawi, al Qaeda's
leader in Iraq, has stored the nuclear device or dirty bomb in
Afghanistan, said officials familiar with the intelligence.
One official said the intelligence is being questioned because
analysts think al Qaeda would not hesitate to use a nuclear device if it
had one.
However, the fact that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has
reported the nuclear threat in several classified reports distributed
since December indicates concern about it.
A DIA spokesman had no comment.
The Jordanian-born Zarqawi, who last year formally linked up with
Osama bin Laden's terror network, is thought to be operating inside Iraq
and has specialized in suicide bombings and large-scale vehicle
bombings. He had several close encounters in recent weeks with Iraqi and
U.S. forces.
Senior U.S. intelligence and security officials said in
congressional testimony in February that a terrorist attack with weapons
of mass destruction -- nuclear, chemical or biological arms -- is
likely. CIA Director Porter J. Goss said such a terrorist strike "may be
only a matter of time."
Dirty bombs are made by mixing radioactive material with
conventional explosives.
A report by the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the
United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction faulted U.S.
intelligence agencies for not understanding al Qaeda's unconventional
weapons programs in Afghanistan prior to 2001, when U.S. forces helped
oust the Islamist Taliban government.
"There are critical intelligence gaps with regard to each al Qaeda
unconventional weapons capability -- chemical, biological and nuclear,"
said the report, made public March 30.
The commission said bin Laden told a Pakistani newspaper reporter in
November 2001 that al Qaeda has both nuclear and chemical weapons. The
CIA then "speculated" in a report that the terrorist group "probably had
access to nuclear expertise and facilities and that there was a real
possibility of the group developing a crude nuclear device," the
commission report said.
The commission also said U.S. intelligence agencies think
development of a radiological bomb is "well within al Qaeda's
capabilities."
The reported threat of nuclear terrorism comes amid other
intelligence indicating that Zarqawi is planning an attack on the United
States. Still other intelligence says Zarqawi was planning a chemical
weapons attack in Europe, officials said.
In February, U.S. intelligence and security officials said
information showed bin Laden had asked Zarqawi to focus future attacks
on targets inside the United States. The threat was contained in a
classified bulletin to state and local security officials.
Copyright C 2005 News World Communications, Inc. All rights reserved.
Subject: DIDN'T WORK! Australian gun control-a thought to warm some of your hearts...
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 20:15:29 EDT
From: Sh0shanna@aol.com
To:
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:08 PM
Subject: Australian gun control Here's a thought to warm some of your hearts...
From: Ed Chenel, A police officer in Australia
Hi Yanks, I thought you all would like to see the real figures from Down Under. It has now been 12 months since gun owners in Australia were forced by a new law to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed by our own government, a program costing Australia taxpayers more than $500 million dollars.
The first year results are now in: Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2 percent, Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6 percent; Australia-wide, armed robberies are up 44 percent (yes, 44 percent)! In the state of Victoria alone,homicides with firearms are now up 300 percent. (Note that while the law-abiding citizens turned them in,
the criminals did not! and criminals still possess their guns!)
While figures over the previous 25 years showed a steady decrease in armed robbery with firearms, this has changed drastically upward in the past 12 months, since the criminals now are guaranteed that their prey is unarmed. There has also been a dramatic increase in break-ins and assaults of the elderly. Australian politicians are at a loss to explain how public safety has decreased, after such monumental effort and expense was expended in "successfully ridding Australian society of guns." You won't see this on the American evening news or hear your governor or members of the State Assembly disseminating this information.
The Australian experience proves it. Guns in the hands of honest citizens save lives and property and, yes, gun-control laws affect only the law-aBiding citizens.
Take note Americans, before it's too late!
FORWARD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST. [ I DID ] DON'T BE A MEMBER OF THE SILENT MAJORITY. BE OF THE VOCAL MINORITY WHO WON'T LET THIS HAPPEN IN THE! U.S.A
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050419-102106-5456r
Reports reveal Zarqawi nuclear threat
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published April 20, 2005
Recurrent intelligence reports say al Qaeda terrorist Abu Musab Zarqawi
has obtained a nuclear device or is preparing a radiological explosive
-- or dirty bomb -- for an attack, according to U.S. officials, who also
say analysts are unable to gauge the reliability of the information's
sources.
The classified reports have been distributed to U.S. intelligence
agencies for several consecutive months and say Zarqawi, al Qaeda's
leader in Iraq, has stored the nuclear device or dirty bomb in
Afghanistan, said officials familiar with the intelligence.
One official said the intelligence is being questioned because
analysts think al Qaeda would not hesitate to use a nuclear device if it
had one.
However, the fact that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has
reported the nuclear threat in several classified reports distributed
since December indicates concern about it.
A DIA spokesman had no comment.
The Jordanian-born Zarqawi, who last year formally linked up with
Osama bin Laden's terror network, is thought to be operating inside Iraq
and has specialized in suicide bombings and large-scale vehicle
bombings. He had several close encounters in recent weeks with Iraqi and
U.S. forces.
Senior U.S. intelligence and security officials said in
congressional testimony in February that a terrorist attack with weapons
of mass destruction -- nuclear, chemical or biological arms -- is
likely. CIA Director Porter J. Goss said such a terrorist strike "may be
only a matter of time."
Dirty bombs are made by mixing radioactive material with
conventional explosives.
A report by the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the
United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction faulted U.S.
intelligence agencies for not understanding al Qaeda's unconventional
weapons programs in Afghanistan prior to 2001, when U.S. forces helped
oust the Islamist Taliban government.
"There are critical intelligence gaps with regard to each al Qaeda
unconventional weapons capability -- chemical, biological and nuclear,"
said the report, made public March 30.
The commission said bin Laden told a Pakistani newspaper reporter in
November 2001 that al Qaeda has both nuclear and chemical weapons. The
CIA then "speculated" in a report that the terrorist group "probably had
access to nuclear expertise and facilities and that there was a real
possibility of the group developing a crude nuclear device," the
commission report said.
The commission also said U.S. intelligence agencies think
development of a radiological bomb is "well within al Qaeda's
capabilities."
The reported threat of nuclear terrorism comes amid other
intelligence indicating that Zarqawi is planning an attack on the United
States. Still other intelligence says Zarqawi was planning a chemical
weapons attack in Europe, officials said.
In February, U.S. intelligence and security officials said
information showed bin Laden had asked Zarqawi to focus future attacks
on targets inside the United States. The threat was contained in a
classified bulletin to state and local security officials.
Copyright C 2005 News World Communications, Inc. All rights reserved.
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