Posted on 07/16/2004 1:05:47 PM PDT by CHARLITE
March 2004 - Osama bin Laden's terror network claims to have bought ready-made nuclear weapons on the black market in central Asia, the biographer of al-Qaeda's No. 2 leader was quoted as telling an Australian television station. In an interview scheduled to be televised on Monday, Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir said Ayman al-Zawahri claimed that "smart briefcase bombs" were available on the black market. It was not clear when the interview between Mir and al-Zawahri took place.
U.S. intelligence agencies have long believed that al-Qaeda attempted to acquire a nuclear device on the black market, but say there is no evidence it was successful.
Experts say it might be a bluff.
Although...the recent story about the 5 empty abandoned suitcases being found gives one sufficient reason to ponder.
I'm not so sure. If plutonium was used ( if it could be used in this device) doesn't it only give off alpha particles? They can be stopped by a sheet of paper. Shielding would have to be minimal.
This Paul Williams guy was interviewed on the radio Wednesday morning on the Bill Handel Show on KFI 640 am Los Angeles. He was preaching this gloom and doom stuff and trying to sound credible. He said that 20 suitcase bombs were going to be used in different cities across the USA by 2005. Then this morning (Friday) Bill interviewed an expert that said even if they had the bombs, they would never be able to detonate them.
We know Poland is our ally. Some people here probably didn’t look at where you are from. And yes we smile allot here.
What the article points to is possible--right up until that sentence that says they have Russian scientists maintaining them.
That's too many people by about half if the scientists aren't fully committed Islamist maddogs, in from the ground floor.
You'd see such a thing in a screenplay because without it--no story.
A actual nuke is harder use than antrax or other bugs and the technical requirments of spreading bugs EFFECTIVLY put THAT tactic beyond Al Queda's reach.
Is this GROM :o)
http://www.specialoperations.com/Foreign/Poland/Unit_Profile.htm
I would imagine that if such a thing occurred, the Senate Investigation group would take abot 2 years to determine this was terrible and that the intelligence community gave us "faulty" intelligence estimates!
I got it and it made me chuckle.
Yes that is GROM. GROM help America, America help Grom.
Thank you dear America Friend.
The first response would be for the public to be told that there is no indication this was terrorism.
You have a very sharp wit!
Make sure you don't cut yourself with it!
(grin)
You have a very sharp wit!
Make sure you don't cut yourself with it!
I do not know what that is dear America Friend.
It is just a joke - actually I was congratulating you on your command of English and your sense of humor.
Thank you my Great America Friend.
I like smile, it is good, life is good, God is good. Thank you Dear America Friend. I learn from America good persons, and is good.
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Thank you Great Dear America Friend. Be strong America, great country. I like your Great Country it is good!!!!.
No, thank you!
I can't spell. I make bad jokes. But I ALWAYS smile.
Tough having furriners correctin my spellin.:)
Something in Polish to you.
Ameryka jest wielkim wspanialym krajem, w ktorym zyja wspaniali ludzie, z wspaniala historia, historia, ktora uczy nas wszystkich o darze wolnosci.
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