[meteorite-list] Welcome Gary

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Hey Gary and welcome to the Glanggang!  I hope you have a good time  here, 
and it is nice to have you.  Twisting the wick already?  That  hype-sucking 
"terrorism" question for ape-hanging monkey butts and RUBs is  like looking for 
back warmers...among a serious Harley chick  club on your Honda.  It has been 
discussed so extensively and  mostly everyone has already rumbled that wants to. 
You can see all the reruns in  the archives by searching using the word 
"terrorism", if the old anchs  get into a snafu.

Are you planning on starting a meteorite collection, or  just learn about 
them second hand? What got you interested, was it the  big one found in Kansas?  
People collect for many reasons.  Some  are scientific, but some just like the 
dates they fall.  Some like the  names.  How about "Rabbit Flat" from the 
colorful land of kangaroos,  aborigines and Australian meteorites?  A road gang 
found it near the most  remote roadhouse in Australia, that is closed most of 
the days of the week, as  far as I can Google.  The live-in caretaker 
supposedly runs people off with  a shotgun.  Sounds like a thrilling place to hunt, and 
bike, if only there  were a bridge to Australia...

Keep the dirty side down,
Clyde
 

In a message dated 12/21/2005 2:27:49 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
SaharaTeam at aol.com writes:
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:38:05 -0500, "Gary K.   Foote" <gary at webbers.com> 
wrote:

>Does anybody lend any  credence  to this   theory?
>
>http://www.saharamet.com/meteorite/data/Sahara/Nwa.html


Two   facts:

1) NWA meteorites are for 95%, contraband items, coming from   Algeria and 
the 
whole Sahara (9 million square kilometers). These rocks  are  centralized in 
one point (South Morocco, Erfoud). 25 Algerian  policemen have  been 
especially 
trained to stop this contraband.
See  two links (you can use  Google language tools to translate from  French) 
  :
http://www.elwatan.com/print.php3?id_article=15125
http://www.algerie-dz.com/article1665.html

2)   Trans Saharan Counterterrorism Initiative.
Saharan contraband is well   organized and linked with army groups. That's 
the 
reason why a budget  of  $  500 millions will be allocated by the US 
government to stop  it. Ten sub-Saharan  countries are associated to the 
project. Half 
of  the budget will be allocated  for helping the population to develop their 
 
economy, the other is dedicated to  the fight against army groups and  the 
contraband controlled by them. See this   link:
http://www.defense.gov/news/May2005/20050516_1126.html

And   also for an external point of   view:
http://www.tecom.usmc.mil/caocl/Africa/Pan-Sahel/Readings/Islamist%20Terrorism
%20in%20the%20Sahel--Fact%20or%20Fiction.pdf


Richard   & Roland  Pelisson
http://www.SaharaMet.com

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