U.S. Nuclear Scientist Leaves for Egypt After Being Fired by U.S. Gov't for Iraq Criticism.

[NNadir]

PITTSBURGH (AP) — An Egyptian-born nuclear physicist who said his rights were violated when the Department of Energy revoked his security clearance has returned to his native Egypt.

The scientist, Abdel Moniem Ali el-Ganayni, had filed a lawsuit in June saying he was being punished for criticizing the Iraq war and President Bush’s treatment of Muslims after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

The lawsuit was dismissed Tuesday by Judge Terrence F. McVerry of Federal District Court here.

The Energy Department said it had reliable information that Dr. Ganayni was a security risk, but the agency said its reasons were classified and could violate national security if they were made public.

Dr. Ganayni, 57, worked at the Bettis Laboratory, which makes parts for nuclear warships, in West Mifflin, a Pittsburgh suburb, for more than 17 years. He has been a United States citizen since 1988.

His security clearance was revoked last late year, and he was fired in May. He and his wife returned to Cairo on Wednesday.

This should excite the interests of racists who believe that Moslems should not be allowed to use the world's largest, by far, source of climate change gas free energy because they're Moslems.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/29/us/29scientist.html

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Don't be silly. They're not allowed to use it because they're AY-rabs.

Let's not get religious bigotry mixed up with racial bigotry. Oh, wait -- it already is. :sarcasm:

[jpak]

2. "Dr. Ganayni, 57, worked at the Bettis Laboratory, which makes parts for nuclear warships"

not nuclear power plants

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[NNadir]

4. This may come as a surprise to you but nuclear warships are small flexible

power reactors. These types of reactors have propelled ships around the world for quite some time, far more safely and cleanly than say, the type of diesel fueled ships that Amory Lovins is paid to promote.

I despise Lovins and propose that all new ships be propelled by nuclear power.

In fact, such small reactors operate cleanly and safely. I note of course, that 100% of the anti-nuke community prefers diesel to nuclear, because 100% of the anti-nuke flakes here and elsewhere are dangerous fossil fuel apologists.

I regard many of the anti-nukes here as being ignorant, and I include in this ignorance, overt racism.

I note, with due contempt, that anti-nuke racists love to come here to announce paranoid racist shit about countries like Jordan, Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan and oh yes, here was a good one - Iraq - can't have nuclear power because they're Moslems.

Apparently the uranium scare mongers in the Bush administration seem to agree with this position.

The number of nuclear wars initiated by Moslems is zero. The number of dangerous fossil fuel wars fought against Moslems by Western nations to secure dangerous fossil fuels is not zero.

I note that the last major unjust dangerous fossil fuel war included the efforts of dumb anti-nukes to hype up the lie that Iraq was about to possess nuclear weapons. The same freaks have been trying to hype the same line with Iran, showing that their thirst for bloods is unappeased by the exposure of their racist fraud.

[jpak]

5. I regard pro-nukes here...

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[bananas]

8. The DU moderators should put an end to this right now.

NNadir's behaviour shouldn't be tolerated here.

[Systematic Chaos]

9. Don't miss your ride!

[Dead_Parrot]

12. I sure the mods appreciate your expert guidance...

...although you might want to review the DU rules. I do not think they say what you think they say.

Which would, incidentally, explain your "Public service announcement"

[happyslug]

3. Pittsburgh Papers ran this last week, when he left

February 3, 2008:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08034/854427-85.stm

From February 14, 2008:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08045/857290-35.stm

From June 26, 2008:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08178/892846-100.stm

From October 15, 2008:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08289/919936-55.stm

From November 28, 2008 (This is the story that the Scientist left for Egypt)
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08333/931314-53.stm

Article on Bettis labs itself:
http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/19990315bettis2.asp

Every time I read about this case I keep remember the story of the H.S. Tsien (His name when employed by the US Government), a Chinese Scientist, educated in the US and who was the viewed as the best Rocket Scientist the US had in 1945 (With the Possible exception of Goddard who died that year and some of the other Scientist working at the Jet Pulsation Labs associated with Cal Tech, where he received his Doctorate). He was the person selected to interview the German Rocket Scientists to see if they could help US Rocket Research (Goddard had examined a early V2 Rocket that had landed in Sweden during WWII and saw much of his work copied in the V2, thus the US Military wanted to see how much of the V2 was just Goddard's rockets with more money behind it or something more basic and important). Thus T.S. Tsien had exposure to Goddard's research via MIT and then the Jet Propulsion Group research out of Cal Tech. These were the two biggest Rocket research groups in the US prior to WWII, sometime exchanging information, sometime keeping it secret even from each other.

T.S. Tsien's problems in the US started in 1949, when the Red Chinese took over China. He tried to obtain US Citizenship, but the FBI found a paper saying he had joined the Communist party in 1938 (A fact he denied). Anyway his security Clearance was revoked and he was kept in House Arrest on a island off California, he was viewed as to dangerous to stay in the US, but to dangerous to leave (At least one Military official called the proposal to exchange T. S. Tsien for a crew of a B-29 held by the Red Chinese a mistake (IT had crashed on a spy mission over China in the mid 1950s), the Military Official said T.S. Tsien was worth the equivalent of a US Army Division, and the exchange was NOT worth it). The exchange took place, over the objection of the US Military, and T.S. Tsien returned to China to lead the Chinese Rocket research group. What a place to be, can't leave, but they don't want you, no wonder he opt to go back to Communist China.

For more on T.S Tsien (Or how his name is other wised spelled in English, Qian Xuesen or Tsien Hsue-shen):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsien_Hsue-shen
http://publicliterature.org/en/wikipedia/t/ts/tsien_hsue_shen.html
http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/20719/chinese_rocket_scientist_has_career_roots_in_us/
http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/T/Tsien.html

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Sound like you've read "Thread of the Silkworm" ...

http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=9780465006786&atch=h&utm_content=You%20Might%20Also%20Like

If not, enjoy! :)

[happyslug]

11. No I have not, I first read about him in Collage in the 1970s

His expulsion from the US in exchange for the Crew of a B-29 spy plane that had been shot down over Red China has been considered one of the worse debacle in US History. While he stayed in China, he is believed to have helped the Russians in the early 1960s as they finalized their own missile program (Through this exchanged would have ended in the mid 1960s when the Soviet Union and Red China almost came to blows). From that point on he would have been working only for China.

[bananas]

6. Wow - NNadir thinks "Moslems" is a race.

[bananas]

7. The world's largest source of climate change gas free energy is hydroelectricity.