Terrorists, Timelines & Their Possible Nuclear Weapons Capabilities
16 August 1998: A leaked intelligence report states that Bin Laden allegedly paid over two million British Pounds to a middle-man in Kazakhstan for a "suitcase" bomb.
26 September 1998: Mamduh Mahmud Salim (bin laden associate) is arrested in Munich, Germany, on charges of trying to obtain nuclear materials including highly enriched uranium.
November 1998: Bin Laden reportedly engaged in a SUCCESSFUL comprehensive plan to acquire nuclear weapons, and allegedly gave a group of Chechens $30 million in cash and two tons of opium in exchange for approximately 20 nuclear warheads. Delivery was ultimately made based on reported by the US National Security Council as well as the Russian FSB.
24 December 2000: Bin Laden sends associates to several Eastern European countries to purchase enriched uranium. These efforts were reportedly unsuccessful. Source: Saudi Security Forces. (Questionable sources)
12 April 2001: Ivan Ivanov reports that he met Bin Laden near the Pakistani border in China to discuss establishing an environmental company to buy nuclear waste. Ivanov was then approached by a Pakistani chemical engineer interested in buying nuclear fuel rods from the Bulgarian Kozlodui reactor.
(Exact date Undetermined): Summer 2001 (exact date undetermined): Bin Laden allegedly buys 48 suitcase-sized nuclear devices from Russian organized crime and disenfranchised scientists. This was reported in the article "Al-Majallah Obtains Serious Information on al-Qa`ida's Attempt to Acquire Nuclear Arms," Al-Majallah [London-based Saudi weekly], on 8 September 2002
November 2001: Bin Laden allegedly obtains seven US-made enriched uranium rods from organized crime connections via Italy. [Source: Classified USDOJ Documents]
November 2001: A "Super-bomb" manual that outlines the advanced physics of nuclear weapons and dirty bombs is found in Kabul in November 2001. Reported 23 June 2003: "Osama Bin Laden's bid to acquire weapons of mass destruction represents the greatest threat that Western Civilization has faced," Mail on Sunday (London).
10 November 2001: Bin Laden states: "We have chemical and nuclear weapons as a deterrent and if America used them against us we reserve the right to use them." Source: Hamid Mir, "Osama Claims He Has Nukes: If US Uses N-Arms it Will Get Same Response," Dawn (Pakistan),
14 November 2001: bin laden allegedly acquires a Russian-made suitcase nuclear weapon from Central Asian sources. The device is reported to weigh 8 kg and to possess at least 2 kg of fissionable uranium and plutonium. The report said the device, with a serial number of 9999 and a manufacturing date of October 1998, could be set off by a mobile phone signal.
19 November 2001: A London Times reporter discovers a blueprint for a "Nagasaki bomb" in files found in an abandoned al-Qaeda house in Kabul, Afghanistan.
22 April 2002: Abu Zubayda claims al-Qaeda has the interest and ability to produce a radiological weapon, and further states that the group already has one in the United States. Source: Dan Eggen and Susan Schmidt, "'Dirty Bomb' Plot Uncovered, US Says: Suspected Al Qaeda Operative Held as 'Enemy Combatant'," Washington Post, 11 June 2002
13 September 2002; Friday: "We Have the Right to Kill 4 Million Americans" Essay from Al-Qaeda spokesman Suleiman Abu Gheith explaining why they're fighting the U.S. We have not reached parity with them. We have the right to kill 4 million Americans - 2 million of them children - and to exile twice as many and wound and cripple hundreds of thousands. Furthermore, it is our right to fight them with chemical and biological weapons, so as to afflict them with the fatal maladies that have afflicted the Muslims because of the [Americans'] chemical and biological weapons.
Islamic Terrorists and the use of Weapons of Mass Destruction
By Sean Osborne
"It is also not a secret but a very common misconception of many, many people in the west, particularly the media, that al-Qaeda conducts its strategic affairs of Jihad in secret. On the contrary, it has announced from the very beginning its strategic goals and the method it deems appropriate to utilize in their realization. This is the Islamic concept of Jihad.
al-Qaeda has made it abundantly clear in a very public way, for example, its drive to have Islamic clerics declare religiously valid, via a "Fatwah" or religious edict, the al-Qaeda organizations use of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical weapons as tools of the Jihad, or their use of any WMD of its choosing, and to have the clerics also issue Fatwahs that the loss of innocent life is or are acceptable losses because the "Will of Allah" is being made manifest in the affairs of mankind by those who wage Jihad."
"These images are telling us a lot about their intentions and targets, but they are not telling us everything! The announcements of this kind are made in such a manner and in advance because it is plainly and simply Arabic/Islamic arrogance and boasting of their intent in Jihad.
Many in the west, particularly those on the western political left, DO NOT have a basic understanding that the enemy at the gate, and already within the house, is focused and completely intent on killing them and their families.
This is true in America and elsewhere because it is politically expedient for them at the present time to hold such political views. Such a political position is viewed as treasonous or anti-American because it comes at a time when we are officially at war with a non-state entity and are at war with remnants state entities in Iraq and Afghanistan which aided and abetted and otherwise supported al-Qaeda.
Knowing the enemy is extremely and urgently important, and knowing ourselves perhaps even more so... America remains at war with an implacable enemy in various locations around the world, and in houses and apartment complexes quite literally across the street from your own homes."
Al Qaeda's Nuclear Fatwa - Make no mistake, the intention and ultimate goal of Al Qaeda does not get any clearer or more concise than this Fatwah issued in December 2002:
"Nuclear Warfare is the Solution for Destroying America"
In the name of Allah the most merciful. Thus, you are not mistaken in reading this text. This is the only way to kill the greatest possible number of Americans. The Americans have never experienced a threat like this one. During World War II, America used this [nuclear] weapon twice in three days following the successful Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Today, the United States uses the most powerful and advanced weapons of destruction against the peaceful citizens of Iraq and Afghanistan, and it proudly supports the war that Russia is waging against Chechnya, not out of affection for Russia, but rather from its hatred of Muslims.
America has bombed Iraq with weaponry that will pollute the soil and underground water with radiation for thousands of years. It also enhances its bombs with depleted uranium to cause even greater harm to the people and the environment. This, so that no one should think that after they leave the island of [the Prophet] Mohammed [the Arabian Peninsula], which they have transformed into a restricted area, just to return to the same place [because of the pollution perpetrated by them]. It seems, in fact, that the wild beasts in the White House have forgotten or have tried to forget one very important thing, which is, in all pride - the Al-Qaeda organization.
This organization, which strikes fear in the hearts of the infidel West, turns youth into people who have nothing in this world but their devotion to Allah and to His Prophet Mohammed, and who are the tormentors of the sons of whores [i.e. - the West], and who are shining examples of estrangement from the sins of this world ... and of selling their souls to Allah....
Therefore, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Even though the Americans have bombs possessing enormous power, Al-Qaeda is even more powerful than they, and it has in its possession bombs which are called "dirty bombs", and bombs with deadly viruses, which will spread fatal diseases throughout American cities....
The coming days will prove that Kaedat el-Jihad [the Al-Qaeda organization] is capable of turning America into a sea of deadly radiation, and this will prove to the world that the end is at hand.... Yes, we will destroy America and its allies, because they have used their power for evil against the weak.
And now, the end approaches at the hand of the enlightened [Islamic] youth astride their horses [fighting the war against the infidels]; they will dismount either as victors or vanquished [i.e. - fall in holy war for Allah].
Author: Abu Shihab El-Kandahari
26 December 2002