Something about tritium being used in the trigger?
Here is an interview with Hamid Mir
... and a few choice morsels...
IOL: How well do you know bin Laden?
HM: I know him from last four years. I met him twice, spend many days with him. He is not a scholar, he is a fighter. He wants to liberate Palestine. He wrote many poems against Israel. He is a jihadi [warrior] poet. His poems will come out very soon. I always ask him difficult questions and he answers my questions with patience.
IOL: Do you think that bin Laden is behind the 9-11 attacks?
HM: I don't think a man living in [the] mountains, without any communication facilities inside America can manage such kind of big operation.
They did buy some, and when they tried to use one, it was a dud--nothing happened.
I can not believe that they have nukes and have not tried to use them, but even the islamics realize that testing one would be a give-away. We are constantly on the lookout for nuclear tests, and can detect one anywhere in the world, 24/7.
So, they tried one out untested--probably in a truck bomb. Pushed the button and nothing happened. Probably New York, WTC before 9-11. Possibly Washington, DC. Could probably take out both the White House and congress.
Now they have a problem. If anyone finds out they have them, the western powers (even Spain) will unite and wipe them out. It is far easier to refurbish one that was professionally made than it is to make one from scratch, but it is still very hard.
Nothing worse than the world knowing you have nukes that don't work...
Bin Laden has several Nuclear Suitcases "Bin Laden has several Nuclear Suitcases Reproduced from the Jerusalem Report: October 25th, 1999 Master terrorist Ossame Bin Laden has acquired portable nuclear devices, a U.S.-based expert on non-conventional terror believes. The only real question now is whether BinLaden has "a few," as Russian intelligence seems to think, or "over 20," a figure cited by intelligence services of moderate Arab regimes. "There is no longer much doubt that Bin Laden has finally succeeded in his quest for nuclear ‘suitcase bombs," says Yossef Bodansky, head of the Congressional Task Force on Non-Conventional Terrorism in Washington. In a recent book, Bodansky reports that Bin Laden’s associates acquired the devices through Chechnya, paying the Chechens $30 million in cash and two tons of Afghan heroin, worth about $70 million in Afghanistan and about 10 times that on the street in Western cities.
Bodansky’s statements corroborate 1998 testimony by former Russian security chief Alexander Lebed to the U.S. House of Representatives. Lebed said that 43 nuclear suitcases from the former Soviet arsenal, developed for the KGB in the 1970s, have vanished since the collapse of the former Soviet Union a decade ago. Lebed said one person could detonate such a bomb by himself, and kill 100,000 people.
Among the others who recognize the threat is Ben Venzke, director of Tempest Publishing. The U.S. firm plans to release a detailed technical handbook on dealing with nuclear terror next year. The danger, says Venzke, is quite real ? and is not confined to stolen Russian weapons. "It is really quite simple," he says, "to acquire radioactive material and combine it with an explosive or so-called dirty device." Yael Haran
Pakistani journalist: Al-Qaida claims has nuclear bombs
Hamid Mir put this story out now, IMO, because Al-Qaida is getting their ass hand to them and hopes the allied forces or some their populations will get scared and back off. The worse their situation, the more dire the threats.
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