FEARS PROMPT U.S. TO BEEF UP NUCLEAR TERROR DETECTION: Sensors Deployed Near D.C., Borders

The above referenced report in the Washington Post of March 3, 2002 is indeed scary.

It says: According to knowledgeable sources, Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet walked the president through an accumulation of fresh evidence about al Qaeda's nuclear ambition. Described by one consumer of intelligence as "an incomplete mosaic" of fact, inference and potentially false leads, Tenet's briefing raised fears that "sent the president through the roof." With considerable emotion, two officials said, Bush ordered his national security team to give nuclear terrorism priority over every other threat to the United States.

Tenet told Bush that Pakistan's nuclear weapons program was more deeply compromised than either government has acknowledged publicly. Pakistan arrested two former nuclear scientists, Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood and Abdul Majid, on Oct. 23, and interrogated them about contacts with bin Laden and his lieutenants.

Pakistani officials maintain that the scientists did not pass important secrets to al Qaeda, but they have not disclosed that Mahmood failed multiple polygraph examinations about his activities. Most disturbing to U.S. intelligence was another leak from Pakistan's program that has not been mentioned in public. According to American sources, a third Pakistani nuclear scientist tried to negotiate the sale of an atomic weapon design to Libya. The Post was unable to learn which Pakistani blueprint was involved, whether the transaction was completed, or what became of the scientist after discovery. Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is believed to include bombs of relatively simple design, built around cores of highly enriched uranium, and more sophisticated weapons employing Chinese implosion technology to compress plutonium to a critical mass.

At the October briefing, Bush learned of a remark by a senior member of al Qaeda's operational command. The operative had been an accurate, though imprecise, harbinger of al Qaeda plans in the past. After U.S. bombing began in Afghanistan, an American official said, the same man was reliably reported to have said "there will be another attack and it's going to be much bigger" than the one that toppled the World Trade Center and destroyed a wing of the Pentagon on Sept. 11.

Hasn't the time come for the United States to

1) take immediate control of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal;

2) initiate steps to restrict the activities and movements of its rogue scientists to ensure that they pose no further threat to humanity; and

3) begin a massive hunt for the Al Qaeda and Taliban leadership reportedly hiding in Pakistan?

The US Congress must take speedy note of the source of this greatest danger to the security of the United States and act in concert with the Administration to eliminate the danger at its roots.

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Fears Prompt U.S. To Beef Up Nuclear Terror Detection

I'd like to thank the Wash Post for writing an article that:

1. Tells Al Queda what kind of detectors our gov't is using.

2. Explains to the enemy what kind of process our gov't is using in forming reaction and response to threat

3. Discusses the scope of impact of WMD in our nation

With editors and papers like the Washington Post, our enemies do not need spies. They just need to read the world-wide web!

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Here is something that was posted on FR a few months ago. It is a map that shows what the damage would be in any city in the US in the event of such an attack. Scary.Nuclear Damage Map

"there will be another attack and it's going to be much bigger" than the one that toppled the World Trade Center and destroyed a wing of the Pentagon on Sept. 11.

It should be clear to all terrorist sponsoring nations, militant islamists and the likes, that if there is a nuclear attack on an American city (or cities), it means total war against the perpertrators. It will not be a case of "round up the usual suspects", it will be a case of "anhilate the likely suspects". There will be no search for the smoking gun, there will be a time of mass destruction of Americas enemies. Talk about a new world order has been mild compared to what will take place.

I can forsee of no circumstances during which America will tolerate nuclear attacks upon its cities. There will be a huge price to pay among Americas enemies.

Hope and pray it never happens. This is a case of the more the militant islamist terrorists are successful, the more their countrymen will lose.

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