On Thursday, analysts of the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies reported recent activity at North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center that they said could signal an effort by Pyongyang to extract weapons-grade plutonium from spent fuel rods.
Let's recap: Alien cultures shocked, awed, and bludgeoned into submission in order to gain control over scarce energy resources; torture used liberally to extract information; precision weapons capable of decapitating the enemy and controlled from a distance via the push of a button.
But without it, the airline had few weapons to extract concessions from pilots, whose contract expires in 2005, said Robert W. Mann Jr., an aviation industry consultant in Port Washington, N.Y.
If the Krasnoyarsk site were available, for example, Russia would be able to take the 8,000 fuel rods that the North Koreans have been using to extract plutonium for nuclear weapons and store them in a safe place.
President Saleh had been deft in publicising the presence of AQAP fighters to extract financial aid and weapons, though his critics said he exaggerated and manipulated the Islamic fundamentalist threat.
But as they shift back to the longer-running dispute over spending, they still want to use the continuing shutdown as their weapon to extract more cuts from the budget without any revenue increases.
"Grape pomace extract is a natural weapon against bacteria," Dr. Osman Sagdic, a professor in the food engineering department at Erciyes University and an author of a paper describing the findings in The Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, said in an e-mail message.
The prospect of extracting the chemical weapons while the civil war continues to rage, though, is far more daunting.
As much as 1000 tonnes of plutonium may be in storage with more than 200 tonnes of that either inside or extracted from nuclear weapons.
US officials will also hope to extract intelligence on the alleged weapons programmes that the US and UK went to war to stop but which, as yet, have not been discovered.
Adding a small amount of gallium helps to stabilise the cooling, but it makes it harder to extract the plutonium from decommissioned weapons to turn it into fuel for nuclear reactors.
