Posted on 04/28/2006 4:35:11 AM PDT by EastCobbRules
'American Hiroshima' linked with Iran attack Pakistani journalist who met bin Laden confirms al-Qaida nukes, says they may already be in U.S.
By Paul L. Williams and David Dastych © 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Osama bin Laden recording released on al-Jazeera network
Al-Qaida has already obtained nuclear suitcase weapons from the Russian black market, weapons tested in Afghanistan in 2000, and they may have already been forward-deployed inside the U.S., according to the only journalist to interview Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri in the wake of Sept. 11.
Last week, Hamid Mir's credibility skyrocketed when he accurately predicted in Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin and later in WND the imminent release of a new recorded communiqué from bin Laden through al-Jazeera, the Arabic TV network. Two days later, bin Laden's tape was the focus of international news coverage.
"If you think that my information and analysis about bin Laden's location is correct," said Hamid Mir, "then please don't underestimate my analysis about his nuclear threat also."
Mir said that he met with an Egyptian engineer last week who lost an eye after one of bin Laden's nuclear tests in the Kunar province of Pakistan. The Pakistani journalist said the encounter with the engineer greatly disturbed and depressed him since it provided further assurance that a nuclear nightmare for America is about to dawn.
Mir believes that an "American Hiroshima" will occur as soon as the U.S. launches an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
"Al-Qaida and Iran," he says, "have a long, secret relationship." "American Hiroshima" is the name al-Qaida leaders chose for their long-planned nuclear attack on the U.S.
The relationship between Iran and bin Laden dates back to June 21, 1996, when bin Laden attended a terror summit in Tehran. The gathering attracted terror leaders from various places throughout the world, including Ramadan Shallah (the Palestinian Islamic Jihad), Ahmad Salah (Egyptian Islamic Jihad), Imad al-Alami and Mustafa al-Liddawi (Hamas), Ahmad Jibril (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine), Abdallah Ocalan (the Kurdish People Party), Muhammad Ali Ahmad (al Qaida), and Imad Mugniyah (Hezbollah). The summit resulted in the creation of the "Committee of Three" that would meet on a regular basis for the "coordination, planning and execution of attacks" against the United States and Israel. The committee members were Ahmad Salah, Imad Mugniyah and bin Laden.
Mir's position that al-Qaida's nuclear weapons may have already been forward-deployed to the United States confirms the report of Sharif al-Masri, a key al-Qaida operative who was arrested in Pakistan in November 2000.
Al Masri, an Egyptian national with ties to al-Zawahiri, said that al-Qaida had made arrangements to smuggle nuclear weapons and supplies to Mexico. From Mexico, he said, the weapons were to be transported across the border and into the United States with the help of a Latino street gang.
Mir also maintains that numerous sleeper agents are in place in major cities throughout the United States to prepare for the nuclear holocaust. Many of these agents, he says, are Algerians and Chechens who obtained European passports and are posing as Christian and Jews.
He further says that many of these agents have been in the United States since bin Laden's issuance of his "Declaration of War on Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Holy Places." That fatwa was issued Aug. 23, 1996.
Gotta tell ya, that's not how I understand things.
First, there is some "minimal" amount of material underwhich, a chain reaction cannot be created/maintained. (This reaction is what causes nukes to go "boom.") Although said material is not the only component to any bomb, it is sufficiently small that it could readily become a "suitcase" sized bomb. Remember, we had mass quantities of nuke artillery shells. Bigger than breadbox, yes, but much smaller than a footlocker (not to mention, two). Each a completely self-contained bony-fidy nuke.
Are there such things? Beats me, but they are emminently feasible. And that minimal amount is small enough that it could be readily exceeded (for engineering safety/viability margins) and still qualify as "suitcase" sized.
Secondly, nuke maintenance. Fascinating subject, one with relatively few experts. And they're not sure. Unclassified sources have claimed life span of a non-minimalized (so there's a safety margin of material that'll go boom, when required) at about 29 years. Which creates a whole slew of strategic issues/questions, given that Clinton essentially closed our last plant.
My understanding, however, is that recent attempts to verify/refute that 29 year number leaves the question somewhat open. Apparently some nukes checked were still good. So the true experts are back examining their models and numbers to see what the real figure should be.
To return to the "suitcase" maintenance issue...bottom line is we don't truly know how they were all made (if at all), don't truly know what their life-span would be (for same reason), and so cannot reliably conclude they "cannot exist." They could exist. And last I checked, no one sufficiently intelligent to make one, had made one such that it would have to be used within 1-5 years or be useless.
Skittish oil speculators.
Every time Iran threatens war, the price of a barrel of oil goes up a dollar.
Make a threat to make a billion.
... and ACRONYM DELETED didn't detect anything. Yeah ...riiiight...
I agree with much of what you said.
However, I guess it depends upon how you define "winning."
One of many related type links:
"Iran president paves the way for arabs' imam return"
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_10945.shtml
"Our revolution's main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi," Ahmadinejad said in the speech to Friday Prayers leaders from across the country."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/14/wiran14.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/14/ixworld.html
"The most remarkable aspect of Mr Ahmadinejad's piety is his devotion to the Hidden Imam, the Messiah-like figure of Shia Islam, and the president's belief that his government must prepare the country for his return."
"Their sneaking suspicion is that Iran's president actually relishes a clash with the West in the conviction that it would rekindle the spirit of the Islamic revolution and - who knows - speed up the arrival of the Hidden Imam."
That just might be a win, in Ahmadinejad's book.
I have been thinking the same thing. In fact a few of us were saying this very thing on this thread right here at FR on 19 Apr:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617805/posts?page=19#19
bump
I'd laugh if the so called "hidden Imam",like there's really such a thing,would turn out to be a Jew.
Sources: Center for Defense Information and Natural Resources Defense Council.
Davy Crockett bazooka-type
missile with W54 nuclear warhead
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