[Cicero]

Yes, there were stories at the time that al Qaeda was taken in by a fake site on how to make a nuclear bomb. That certainly suggests either ignorance on the part of this writer or the desire to make up a threatening story.

I agree that this writer probably knows nothing and is dreaming a typical Islamic daydream of killing and vengeance. BUT the business with General Lebed is a bit more worrying. As far as I know, the nuclear suitcase story has never either been confirmed or disproven. It is, certainly, worrying, because there was a time when the Russian mafia might indeed have been willing to sell that sort of stuff to bin Ladin, and bin Ladin is known to have had several hundred million dollars when he left Saudi Arabia.

[RightWhale]

this writer probably knows nothing

Overestimates effects of a nuke by 1-2 orders of magnitude, esp. the effects of fallout. Does not know about the new anti-nuke time missile that follows the genetic structure of the person who sets off a suit case nuke back to his infancy and changes the DNA so he grows up as an animal instead of a man. Which animal? Need to ask?