[attiladhun2]

Yes. Just like in Saudi a while back when a group of foreign nationals were kidnapped. Apparently, the terrorists used police cars and some police personnel may have been involved. I think these kinds of arrangements are common in the ME and other parts of the world. Which is why I think al-Qaeda may have picked up some small nukes from Russian sources. Many in the Russian gov are unrepentant Commies or Russian nationalists and despise bitterly the United States in particular and the West in general. The Russian intell services are filled with such people and many of these have ties to Russian organized crime. These criminals have further ties to the Chechen mafia which has ties to ME terror groups. Given all the heroin these groups control and a glut of cash, I see no good reason not to believe nuclear devices have not already changed hands. I think my analysis here is sound, even if based on speculation.

[RunningWolf]

Oh I don't discount your analysis even based on speculation, it seems educated speculation.

One thing in our favor on the nuke issue, is that the smaller lightweight nukes use several materials that have much shorter half lives etc. This and a few other factors mean that these devices have much shorter 'shelf lives' and getting all the materials in one place at one time to replenish the device would be very difficult.

This kind of info is not classified, a person can read all this and make these guesses from readily available sources on the INET.

Also I think the black market is not a friendly place for any group. There have been most likely several frauds or bait and switch operations wherein the terror group shows up at the site with their $20 million or whatever and and they go away dead, or get some useless device that emits some radiation etc.

Wolf