I don't know how I got on WMD, but here is more. Why didn't I ever think of Pakistan? I should of had a V-8...LOL
Preventing a Nightmare Scenario: Terrorist Attacks Using Russian Nuclear Weapons and Materials
by Ariel Cohen, Ph.D.
Backgrounder #1854
May 20, 2005
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Radical Islam’s “Religious Duty”
Osama bin Laden has called using weapons of mass destruction against the U.S. a “religious duty.” He has also declared that undermining America’s economic power is his strategic objective. Bin Laden did not confirm or deny pursuit of such weapons in press interviews, but a body of evidence indicates that he has actively sought them.
For example, Ahmad al Fadl, a defector from al-Qaeda, testified in U.S. court that in 1994 he was tasked with procuring a radioactive material, apparently highly enriched uranium (HEU), from a South African source.[1] Ayman al-Zawahiri was spotted visiting Russia for six months in 1996—ostensibly to assist the Chechens to escalate their hostilities against Russia—and spoke publicly about the ease of procuring nuclear materials from the former Soviet republics. In 2002, Abu Zubaydah told interrogators that al-Qaeda knew how to build “dirty bombs” and where to get material for them.[2]
There are also media reports of al-Qaeda buying or stealing up to 20 nuclear warheads from the former Soviet republics, bin Laden providing $3 million and large commercial amounts of opium to Chechens in exchange for nuclear weapons or material, and four Turkmen nuclear scientists working to create an al-Qaeda weapon.[3] The veracity of these reports cannot be independently evaluated.[4] In February 2005, Director of Central Intelligence Porter Goss testified that al-Qaeda might possess radioactive material of Russian or Soviet origin.
In 2003, Sheikh Nasir bin Hamid al-Fahd, a prominent Saudi cleric close to al-Qaeda, provided a comprehensive religious opinion (fatwa) justifying the use of nuclear weapons against the United States, even it killed up to 10 million Americans, under the pretext that the United States is to blame for the deaths of 10 million Muslims.[5] This cleric and two of his colleagues—Ali al-Khudayr and Ahmad al-Khaladi—have provided “religious” justifications for bin Laden to create mayhem. Bin Laden portrays himself as a pious Muslim who protects and defends other Muslims and wages a jihad (holy war) in their name.[6]
Al-Qaeda is an organization that is religiously and ideologically committed to the destruction of the United States and Israel, the subjugation of the West, and the overthrow of existing Muslim and Arab regimes throughout the greater Middle East and beyond—from Nigeria to Saudi Arabia to Indonesia. Its proclaimed goal is establishment of a caliphate (khilafa)—a militarized dictatorship based on the Shari’a (holy law) and dedicated to conquest of the non-Muslim world (Dar al-Harb, literally “Land of the Sword”).
Other radical Islamist organizations share these far-reaching goals and anti-American agendas, including the Lebanese Shi’a Hezballah and Pakistani Lashkar-e-Tayyiba. Lashkar-e-Tayyiba has links to al-Qaeda, technological sophistication and personnel, and international connections reaching into the U.S. that could help them acquire WMD capabilities.[7] For example:
Hezballah operates Al-Manar, a satellite TV channel, and recently tested a military unmanned aerial vehicle, which flew over Israel. Such low-flying vehicles can deliver warheads to targets otherwise protected against air attacks.
Hamas, another radical Islamist terrorist organization, succeeded in developing rockets and producing Kassam short-range missiles in the technologically primitive conditions of Gaza’s metal workshops and garages.
Other Palestinian radical organizations have utilized hot air balloons and hang gliders, which can be used to deliver a crude bomb or radiation dispersion device (RDD or “dirty bomb”).[8]
All of these organizations attract a number of engineers and technicians who could facilitate their homegrown nuclear weapons programs. With considerable financial resources at their disposal, they can also recruit engineers and scientists from the thousands who have received education in related fields in Russia, the West, and the Muslim world. Such clandestine programs would be assisted by the wealth of information about nuclear matters available on the Internet.
Furthermore, radical Islamists have ideological, organizational, and operational connections to the military and intelligence establishments of Iran and Pakistan. Iran is suspected by both the Bush Administration and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of managing a clandestine nuclear weapons program. Pakistan is a nuclear power, and anti-American Islamists strongly influence its nuclear establishment and military and intelligence services.
For example, Pakistan was the source of Ahmed Qadir Khan’s global nuclear proliferation network, which supplied technology to North Korea, Libya, Iran, and possibly other countries.[9] And there is strong suspicion that prior to 9/11, Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mehmood and Abdul Majid, two senior nuclear scientists from Pakistan who used to work for Khan, traveled to Afghanistan to offer their expertise to Osama bin Laden.[10]
Experts believe that terrorists are willing to inflict massive casualties using WMD, capable of doing so despite the technical difficulties of executing such an attack, and capable of either stealing or building a nuclear bomb. The IAEA has documented cases of HEU theft.[11]
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:gI-Rg2BKJz0J:www.heritage.org/Research/NationalSecurity/bg1854.cfm+Russian+Organized+Crime+Linked+to+Osama+bin+Laden.%22+&hl=enNon-residents get travel warning Snip: Because of a Department of Homeland Security's 2003 law, any non-citizen of the U.S. can lose their "green card" and be put in deportation proceedings for criminal convictions that happened as far as 20 years ago.
Pimental told a handful of concerned Filipinos that he had a client who had a green card for 15 years. The woman had convictions for shoplifting a packet of Kool-Aid and aspirin. "She went to her own country, came back, and was put in deportation proceedings," Pimental said. "Even something as minor as two shoplifting convictions can put you at risk."
Dangers in leafy greens
Snip: "These 19 outbreaks," Dr Brackett wrote, "account for approximately 409 reported cases of illness and two deaths." The reason his letter targeted California is that investigations traced eight of the outbreaks associated with lettuce and spinach back to growers in Salinas, Calif.
Leafy greens flourish best when generously irrigated and fertilized. Micro-greens in particular germinate most productively under conditions that also encourage the growth of microbes. In the case of organic sprouts and leafy greens, they may also be fertilized with fresh manure.
Even if the water used in irrigation is pure, if the supply used after harvesting to clean and chill a crop is not high-enough quality to sanitize a crop, a consumer using it after purchase without further washing could be at risk of infection.
Raw egg warning after 40 taken ill with salmonella
Snip: "PEHS is investigating a number of groups of people who have experienced gastroenteritis over the past week. All are linked to the same food business," Dr Taylor said yesterday. "While the total number of people affected remains unclear, at least 40 people are known to have contracted gastroenteritis. "Three people are known to have been hospitalised, of whom two remain in hospital in a satisfactory condition."
Dr Taylor said tests had so far shown eight cases of salmonella, but he did not know whether it was the same strain as recent outbreaks. "The food business involved had prepared ready-to-eat foods such as tartare sauce, mayonnaise and an avocado mix, using raw egg as one of the ingredients," he said.
For our safety some profiling must be done
Snip: The latest licking was applied to Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), who stumbled into the fray on some artless words about how "some" Arab men from terrorist-producing countries ought to be given more intense scrutiny because, well, that fits the profile of the 9/11 terrorists. That makes sense, or is at least a legitimate issue for debate, without anyone holding his breath and turning red-faced if Kirk doesn't grovel.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) said she was "deeply offended" by Kirk's remarks, and I'm deeply offended that she's deeply offended, so she should apologize to me. She was deeply offended in front of a cheering immigrants' rights group, saying that Kirk's kind of thinking led to the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans. No, this kind of thinking might have spared nearly 3,000 people from gruesome deaths from hijacked airplanes.
Muslim killers force EU to retain e-mail info?
Snip: With Muslim murderers global taking over in one place or another, civil persons are trying to put them off. That has left the European Union faced with the possibility of tracking phone and email logs.It could happen. They are trying to locate Islamic killers international in the latter’s communication networks. Therefore, law-abiding citizens will be caught in the web, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
The EU ministers have agreed to set up some sort of plan by which "telecommunications companies (will) retain phone and email logs for at least six months to help investigations into terrorism and other serious crimes." Big Brother, in other words, grows in strength. However, the threat of Islam world rule has forced it on EU leaders to put just that in operation.
That’s how far the Islamic fanatics have pushed the free world. No wonder US President George W. Bush continues to reiterate that the entire world is confronted with the Islamic fanatic enemy. That is why New Iraq is not a foreign problem. The Muslim murdering infiltrators are everywhere.