[meteorite-list] Welcome Gary

From: MexicoDoug_at_aol.com <MexicoDoug_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Dec 21 04:19:48 2005
Message-ID: <246.4140769.30da782d_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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