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Re: Rumsfeld let Bin Laden escape in 2001, says Senate reportInquiry says US failure to attack al-Qaida's leader at Tora Bora had far-reaching consequences

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dg, that's amazing. I guess the bolts had to be special for that job. Probably was the same deal. I think they figured there's more redundancy in the private network so they use that now. But in the age of high altitude nukes, maybe that should be re-thought.

The mainframe computers were on platforms that had springs. I can't imagine how they would survive compression and decompression.

Maybe now that the locations are so known, they have mostly moved on....

That was one of the neatest trips, though. We had an actual business meeting, btw, it wasn't a lark. Very Happy




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Re: Rumsfeld let Bin Laden escape in 2001, says Senate reportInquiry says US failure to attack al-Qaida's leader at Tora Bora had far-reaching consequences
By: DGpeddler in RANT II
Thu, 05 May 11 5:30 PM 		Msg. 17444 of 20747

Linda, I had a friend who worked in the building while they were building it. He said one of the concrete collums did not pass inspection so they worked two weeks with a jackhammer to get it out to replace it. In the scrap from the job he found a bolt and took it home. While working on a tractor he tried to use the bolt but it was too big and got stuck. He gave up trying to get it loose and got out his torch. He could not get it hot enough to cut it out. Finally he heated the metal around it and pulled it out. After all that, the bolt looked new. I do not know what it was made of but it was almost indestructable. For years when there was a tornado warning all the guys who worked there took their families there until the all clear was sounded. BTW, it sounds like the one you went into was very simular. I suggested they least out the vacant space in the local building to homeland security but I was ignored, as usual.

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