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Date Posted: 16:04:13 04/12/10 Mon
Author: Leland Gaunt
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Barack Obama Unable To Connect Dots On International Security Issues Of Power Politics!

Date Posted: 16:59:40 04/12/10 Mon
Author: Leland Gaunt
Subject: Barack Obama Inability To Connect International Dots... (IMPORTANT!!!)

question future of US-Soviet nuclear pact
(AP) – 8 hours ago

WASHINGTON — The new U.S.-Russian nuclear arms treaty may have a problem getting the vote of at least one independent senator, as well as Republican lawmakers.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, says that America's nuclear arsenal must be modernized. That might be difficult if President Barack Obama keeps to his pledge not to build new warheads or engage in underground testing.

Lieberman says he doesn't think the new treaty right now has the 67 votes needed for ratification.

Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee says many questions must be answered before there's even a vote in the Senate. And he doesn't think a vote will take place this year.

Lieberman and Alexander appeared on "Fox News Sunday."

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MY COMMENT BELOW.....

The next informative news tidbit would give dire warning; terrorist may be planning to go nuclear. I am NOT a Hillary Clinton fan; but the timing to cut United States nuclear arsenal by the Barack Obama administration is of poor judgement.

Barack Obama inability to connect dots concerning international relations and power politics concerning international affairs and realities.

For example; the Russian Federation through a third or fourth parties allied, could sell nuclear weapons to a regime in the Middle East for one reason or another may have sympathies to terrorist groups. United States interest and United States allies can come under attack. Example; an ally in terms of Israel located in the Middle East.

The United States options of reprisal and counter attack as an option would fully compromised away under this Barack Obama fool hearty agreement. This is why I believe Barack Obama has no executive experience when dealing in international circumstances or international questions of national security!

Any wonder why I would believe, Barack Obama was totally inexperienced for the rigors and hard realities of the presidency?

END OF PERSONAL COMMENT..........

News item #2

From The Times April 12, 2010

Hillary Clinton fears al-Qaeda is obtaining nuclear weapons material Michael Evans, Pentagon Correspondent, Washington

Terrorists including al-Qaeda pose a serious threat to world security as they attempt to obtain atomic weapons material, Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, declared on the eve of a global summit in Washington to prevent a nuclear terror attack.

President Obama will call on the leaders of 47 nations today — the biggest gathering of heads of state by a US leader since the founding of the UN in 1945 — to introduce tougher safeguards to prevent nuclear material ending up in the hands of terrorists. As far back as 1998, Osama bin Laden stated that it was his Islamic duty to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction.

During the two-day Nuclear Security Summit, Mr Obama will try to convince representatives, including David Miliband. who is standing in for Gordon Brown, that the dangers of loosely guarded atomic material are so grave that a global agreement is needed to stop al-Qaeda going nuclear.

The summit is part of Mr Obama’s strategy to put nuclear weapons at the top of foreign policy. He signed a treaty with Russia on April 8, restricted the role and development of US nuclear weapons last week, and is trying to reach agreement on new sanctions against Iran. The Iran component of his strategy will be raised during the summit, notably with President Hu of China, who agreed to attend the event after initial doubts.

In a speech he gave in Prague a year ago when he outlined his vision of a nuclear-free world, Mr Obama said he aimed to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years. The summit is intended to rally global collective action to achieve this goal.

However, with nuclear energy continuing to expand around the world and safeguard technologies becoming outdated, the scope for proliferation — fissile material leaking to terrorist groups as well as to maverick states — is multiplying.

The unprecedented gathering of 47 nations in Washington to address this issue underscores the perceived severity of the threat posed by nuclear terrorism.

"We know that terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda, are pursuing the materials to build a nuclear weapon and we know that they have the intent to use one [which would be] a catastrophic danger to American national security and to global security were they able to carry out that kind of attack," Ben Rhodes, the White House's deputy national security adviser for strategic communications, said last week.

Mr Obama will be seeking specific commitments from individual countries to lock down their stocks of nuclear material, with particular emphasis on plutonium and highly-enriched uranium, the two materials that can be used for nuclear bombs.

There already exists a Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism, completed in 2005, but it has not yet come into force because some countries still have to sign and ratify it. There will be pressure on them to act soon.

There will also be pressure on countries to follow the example of Chile, which has removed all of its stocks of low-enriched and highly-enriched uranium.

Mr Obama will remind delegates that the US and Russia have each agreed to dispose of 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium, taken from their military programmes. This was agreed in 2000 but it has taken ten years for the implementing measures to be worked out.

Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, and her Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, will finally sign the deal today.

The US has spent 20 years and billions of dollars trying to help the Russians safeguard their huge stockpiles of nuclear material. But there are still concerns that terrorists might acquire Russian-sourced fissile material.

When the Cold War ended there were apocalyptic rumours of Russian tactical nuclear weapons going missing, and there were warnings of suitcase bombs being planted in Western cities. But, apart from a whole series of arrests of would-be nuclear smugglers caught trying to sell low-grade radioactive material during the early post-Cold War period, the nightmare of a terrorist group acquiring a nuclear weapon never happened.

However, Russia still has 5,000 tactical nukes, supposedly under lock and key. Underlining the fear that one might be secreted out of the country, the US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration has equipped 160 Russian border crossings with radiation detection equipment.

Bin Laden's avowed intention to go nuclear has kept the West's intelligence services busy for years.

"Since the mid-1990s, al-Qaeda's WMD procurement efforts have been managed at the most senior levels, under rules of strict compartmentalisation from lower levels of the organisation, and with central control over possible targets and the timing of prospective attacks," Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former senior CIA officer, wrote in Foreign Policy magazine in January.

He said Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda's Egyptian deputy chief, "personally shepherded the group's ultimately unsuccessful efforts to set off an anthrax attack in the US".

In a 2007 video, bin Laden repeated his promise "to use massive weapons" to destroy capitalism and help create an Islamic caliphate, and there have been numerous examples in recent years of al-Qaeda's attempts to acquire WMD material.

According to Mr Mowatt-Larssen, the first evidence of the terrorist group's plans to purchase nuclear material was in late 1993. An al-Qaeda defector who became a source for the CIA and FBI, revealed that bin Laden tried to buy uranium in Sudan.

In 2001, Zawahiri was quoted as saying in an interview: "If you have $30 million, go to the black market in central Asia, contact any disgruntled Soviet scientist, and dozens of smart briefcase bombs are available."

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7094876.ece

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