I agree that Al Qaeda wants a nuke and will use it if they ever get it. I would not put it past Iran to hand one off to them, but I don't think they have one to hand off just yet. I am a little more concerned about Al Qaeda and their donors buying a nuke from the organized crime coming out the former USSR.
"I agree that Al Qaeda wants a nuke and will use it if they ever get it. I would not put it past Iran to hand one off to them, but I don't think they have one to hand off just yet. I am a little more concerned about Al Qaeda and their donors buying a nuke from the organized crime coming out the former USSR."
I think both al Qaeda and Iran have been seeking to acquire nuclear materials and technology from the former USSR going back a decade or more. I know that I've seen the story about 3-4 weapons from Kazakhstan repeated several times since 1993-94 (but never confirmed). Of course the North Koreans have also been an issue during the past decade. The missile program has always seemed to be a co-development effort. You could construct all sorts of bad scenarios with a Taepo-dong-3 smuggled in pieces to Iran and launched from Tabriz or the Bekaa . . .