[FairOpinion]

Thanks for the recent article about Mursi.

I think we must have some pretty specific information that he DOES HAVE nuclear materials, in fact maybe even a real backpack nuke. My personal guess (putting on tin-foil hat) is that we are fearing REAL nukes, and using the dirty bomb notion as cover. We have to admit we are looking for something nuclear/radioactive.

[LivFREEordie]

Here is an interesting link that I came across doing a search on this guy's name- not sure how credible the author is, it's a lonnnng read but very, very detailed.

http://www.anthraxandalqaeda.com/

[Domestic Church]

" My personal guess (putting on tin-foil hat) is that we are fearing REAL nukes, and using the dirty bomb notion as cover."

Yeah, I've been thinking that for the past 400 or so posts...just like the color code drop being a decoy.

[JustPiper]

But with his chemical expertise...

[brucecw]

I think we must have some pretty specific information that he DOES HAVE nuclear materials, in fact maybe even a real backpack nuke.

I do hope you're wrong. However from the point of view of al-Qaeda the dirty bomb has some definite attractions over a real nuke - no sensitive timers, no questions about charge shaping or material purity. And if it's a stolen bomb (which a backpack nuke would be at some point in its chain of possession) there would be potential issues about passcodes &c. Plus many people would probably panic (irrationally) nearly as much about a dirty bomb as about the real thing ... at least those who don't have much knowledge about what the real thing would do (shudder).

It's going to be very hard to sort out what our people know about what he has ... there will be multiple layers of deception or denial in order to try to trap him and/or to avoid making things worse.