Posted on 07/18/2005 9:13:22 AM PDT by Blindboy16
American Hiroshima: Old News Ryan Mauro - 7/18/2005 This week, the mainstream media seemed shocked when a number of news sources, including WorldNetDaily.com released a report about an "American Hiroshima" plot against the United States by Al-Qaeda The plot calls for Al-Qaeda to detonate nuclear weapons on American soil, having arrived over the Mexican border with the assistance of MS-13 gang members. The report claims Al-Qaeda has already obtained a large number of nuclear weapons currently being maintained by Pakistani and Russian scientists.
Why the shock? In November 2002, this author provided similar and nearly identical information to the American public and intelligence agencies compiled from private and open-sources. The result was a research project of an enormous size, summarily published on this site with the entire version published on WorldThreats.com. Thus, we were quite surprised when this report rocked and shocked the mainstream media over two years after we had already published the same information.
Our original report, entitled "Exposing the Next Wave of Spectacular Terrorism: Terrorist Possession of Weapons of Mass Destruction" seems antiquated as it had been tailored to the address the concerns at the onset of Operation Iraqi Freedom, including the possibility of retaliatory terrorist attacks. Although there were several subsequent updates, we have re-compiled our information, now over two years old, to illustrate we sounded this alarm bell in 2002.
(Excerpt) Read more at globalpolitician.com ...
So a bunch of jourmalistic organizations with questionable standards ignore a journalistic organization with questionable standards.
Hold the presses, or, better yet, dump some thermite in them and light it off.
not a fan of worldnetdaily? At least read the analysis. The author basically just reviews all the open-source intelligence on al-qaeda's nuclear threat. It's a very interesting read even if you don't believe al-qaeda is that much of a threat.
Sorry, but I've followed the suitcase nuke claims for years. They don't pan out, and WND has plenty of credibility problems.
Oh, and saying that WND's suitcase nuke story has no cred does not equal believing that al Qaeda is not that much of a threat. But nice try anyway.
American Hiroshima = Muslim Armageddon and Extermination
The author of this has been hitting the radio talkshow circuit. He is not selling his book, although he has a book coming out this fall. He does not need the money, he is old. He thinks we ought to be scared, although what good that might do is not clear. He is not always completely forthright in that he did not admit to Savage that he had been on Coast the night before. He knows little of the nuts and bolts of nuclear detonation yet claims cities would be devastated by barely critical mass devices.
How do you know the suitcase nuke stuff doesn't pan out? I'm not arguing, I'm genuinely interested. I know the original nuke reports were from Arab press reports which I don't have faith in. Do you think Bodansky, Williams and others then just repeated it for money?
And to the other poster...what kind of damage do you think such nukes would cause? You seem to think it's being overblown.
Plenty of FR posters over the years have shot down the suitcase nuke claims. And, given that WND was caught peddling bogus photos of a Chinese neutron bomb test, I don't give them any credibility.
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Well according to this FBI agent they have the suitcases boms in America.
The papragraph is from Newsmax.com
Paul L. Williams, a former FBI consultant, tells of the plan in his upcoming book, "Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime, And the Coming Apocalypse." According to Williams, former CIA Director George Tenet informed George W. Bush one month after the 9/11 attacks that at least two suitcase nukes had reached al-Qaida operatives in the U.S. This caused Bush to order his national security team to give nuclear terrorism priority over every other threat to America.
More at Newsmax.com.
One Reporter's Opinion – An 'American Hiroshima'
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