Major Variola (ret)[SMTP:mv@cdc.gov]

At 05:28 PM 6/3/03 -0700, Tim May wrote:

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Possibly for construction of baseline maps of existing radioisotopes in university labs, hospitals, and private facilities. Then deviations from baseline maps could be identified and inspected in more detail with ground-based vans and black bag ops.

Good call. I wonder if folks getting PET scans will have to kick back longer in the waiting areas lest they be snatched by delta teams... hopefully the .mils can distinguish Tc99 et al from other 'topes.. similarly with mobile industrial inspection rigs --except that they have the good stuff a RD gadget-maker would want. Maybe GPS + IFF beacons will be added to those.

It appears that they can't tell the medical isotopes from others.... -------------------- http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2002/Irradiated-Patient-Security4dec02.htm High Security Trips Up Some Irradiated Patients, Doctors Say AL BAKER / NY Times 4dec02 In one case last spring, a man being treated for an overactive thyroid gland was stopped by the authorities on two occasions while at a subway stop at Pennsylvania Station. In another case about a month ago, a woman who had undergone a diagnostic heart study was stopped while trying to drive out of Manhattan through a tunnel. In both cases, the people involved had been treated with radioactive materials. And in both cases, doctors said, they were stopped by law enforcement officers armed with radiation detectors used to track possible terrorists. Such reports are flowing into doctors' offices, physicians in the metropolitan region and elsewhere say. -----------------------