" 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.
"Late 2000 Nuclear
The intelligence agency of an unnamed European country reportedly intercepts a shipment of approximately twenty nuclear warheads--originating from Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and the Ukraine--intended for Bin Ladin and the Taliban regime of Afghanistan.
12/24/2000 "Arab security sources" "Arab Security Sources Speak of a New Scenario for Afghanistan: Secret Roaming Networks that Exchange Nuclear Weapons for Drugs," Al-Sharq al-Awsat, 24 December 2000"
Before 9/11/2001 Nuclear Bin Ladin allegedly buys 48 "suitcase nukes" from the Russian mafiya. 9/8/2002
An unnamed French anti-terrorism expert "Al-Majallah Obtains Serious Information on al-Qa`ida's Attempt to Acquire Nuclear Arms," Al-Majallah [London-based Saudi weekly], 8 September 2002
1/2002 Nuclear Diagrams of U.S. nuclear power plants are found in abandoned al-Qa`ida camps and facilities in Afghanistan. 1/31/02 al-Qa`ida document cache Bill Gertz, "Nuclear Plants Targeted," Washington Times, 31 January 2002; John J. Lumpkin, "Diagrams Show Interest in Nuke Plants," Associated Press, 30 January 2002
And more at:
http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/other/sjm_cht.htm