Maybe Russia is getting a wee bit nervous, they have and are still selling so much nuclear, that the odds are that if there is a nuclear attack, it will be traced back to them.
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Oh I am sure of it. See this link old but....
Osama bin Laden has said his revenge for Afghanistan and the Global War on Terrorism (read Al Qaeda), will be worse that the destruction of the World Trade Center. He is talking about a Weapon of Mass Destruction.
That can only mean an atomic bomb or major radiological device. Mass casualty chemical/biological weapons are not easy to produce or to handle. Additionally, chemical/biological devices will normally not produce the damage, casualties or psychological effect that could be accomplished by a nuclear device.
Radiological materials are everywhere -- hospitals (x-ray machines), some research labs, some food processing plants, nuclear power plants (spent fuel rods), etc.
It has been reported that up to 40-50 suitcase nukes are missing from the old Soviet Union. They are what are called Atomic Demolition Munitions (ADMs) or sometimes called Special Atomic Demolition Munitions (SADMs).
In 1996, it was allegedly reported that Mafia associates of Muslim Chechnya purchased a "shipment" of "nuclear suitcases" from disgruntled former Soviet KGB agents. The Chechen Mafia purportedly sold 20 "nuclear suitcases" to Osama bin Laden who paid $20 million in cash and two tons of heroin refined from the Al Qaeda laboratories in Afghanistan with a street value of $500 million. This was 1996, long before the invasion of Afghanistan.
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:6Xf1SPqbet0J:www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,Hayden_072904,00.html+osama+bin+laden+and+the+russian+mafia&hl=en
Good ole Russia, once an enemy, always an enemy.
Tell me, where did i read yesterday that said the terrorists had buried vials of bio-hazards in England some time ago.
Either at a link or a thread here or even on the TM list.
I meant to copy it and didn't and now have forgotten where I read it............