Osama Bin Laden About to Attack the U.S., Says Terrorism Expert [suitcase nukes]

US Newswire ^ | 9/22/2006 | Dr. Hugh Cort

[Hadean]

To: National Desk

Contact: Dr. Hugh Cort, 205-213-5621 or 205-313-1786

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a statement by Republican presidential candidate Dr. Hugh Cort:

I work with Dr. Paul Williams, the source for the September 7th World Net Daily article "Al-Qaeda Warns Muslims: Time to get out of U.S.; Afghan terror commander hints at big attack on NY, Washington." He is in touch with Hamid Mir; the Fox News Middle East expert who has interviewed bin Laden three times. Hamid Mir did the interview with Abu Dawood, the top Al Qaeda man in Afghanistan, who said all the Muslims need to leave America, especially New York and Washington, because Osama is soon going to attack with his "American Hiroshima" plan where he blows up 7 to 10 American cities with suitcase nukes.

Abu Dawood also told Hamid Mir that bin Laden will come out with a new audiotape in the next 10 days or sooner. Dr. Williams can provide media with the transcript of this interview. (NOTE: Contact Dr. Cort at 205-213-5621 between 2 p.m. and midnight Eastern Time, or leave a message at 205-313-1786 for more information).

Dr. Williams and I have located Adnan Shukrijumah, who the FBI calls "the next Mohammed Atta", who is the leader of bin Laden's "American Hiroshima" attacks, in Canada. We met with Canadian intelligence for five hours. They were very helpful. However the FBI has not been helpful. Google the name Ciro Vitolo. We have much more info that is not on the internet. We have also discovered what we believe could be the nerve center for bin Laden's "American Hiroshima" attacks. Hamid Mir, who has never been wrong to our knowledge, says bin Laden has already smuggled suitcase nukes through the Mexican border into the U.S. and is soon going to blow up 7 to 10 American cities.

Ayman al-Zawahiri, bin Laden's number two man, said in his latest audiotape, essentially "We have warned you repeatedly, we have offered you a truce, we have asked you to convert to Islam, so now we have satisfied all the requirements (of Muslim law or "Honor Code" where you must warn your enemy, and offer him one last chance for a truce and to convert, before you strike him) and now we are justified in attacking you. Your government has hidden from you the full extent of the devastation that is coming. The days are pregnant with events that are about to be born."

In his audiotape of Jan. 19, bin Laden offered America a truce, then said "The only reason we have not attacked you yet is not because of your security precautions. It is simply because we are not quite through with the preparations. The minute the preparations are through, you will feel the attacks in your own homes."

Christianne Amanpour in the CNN special on bin Laden that aired a few weeks ago, "In the Footsteps of Bin Laden" made the point that before 9/11 bin Laden got a fatwa saying it was okay to kill civilians. Then he did 9/11. Now, she pointed out, he has gotten a fatwa, or religious order, saying it is OK to kill 10 million Americans with nuclear weapons. Guess what is going to happen next?

These attacks, which Khalid Sheik Mohammed said will be "a nuclear hell storm on America", are coming soon, perhaps as early as this Saturday, when the Muslim holy month of Ramadan starts.

So what can we do at this late date?

The FBI needs to search every mosque in our major cities, but in surprise raids, because, apparently, according to an internet posting by the English Muslim convert Rakan Ben Williams, the bombers have a "failsafe plan" where if one of them gets caught the others are to immediately detonate their nukes.

And we must quickly catch Shukrijumah and his fellow terrorists in Canada before they blow up 7 to 10 American cities (just contact Dr. Paul Williams and myself and we will lead you to them). It is our only chance.

Also, everyone needs to immediately go to the website http://www.ki4u.com where they can order potassium iodide (KI) pills to avoid thyroid cancer in the event of a nuclear attack, and on that website they can read the ten-page article "How to Survive a Nuclear Attack" -- stay inside your house for three days, after which the radiation decreases to one hundredth of its initial strength, and then it is safe to go outside for short trips, and after 2 weeks you can go out all the time. But if you go outside in the first three days, even just for ten minutes, you will receive a fatal dose of radiation and slowly bleed to death internally over 2-3 weeks. Remember, many more people died from radiation poisoning after Hiroshima than died in the initial blast.

Please help me and Dr. Paul Williams stop these horrible attacks. Please get us some press coverage and some help from our Congressmen and Senators and FBI and CIA and NSA before it's too late.

God bless you, and God bless America!

P.S. Watch for Osama's new audiotape, coming out in a few days.

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[monkeywrench]

Don't forget tape! :)

[brwnsuga]

Oh yes, gotta have some tape.

[_Jim]

Doesn't work like that. The plutonium core of a nuclear weapon, I read, is not even warm to the touch.

Having never personally handled one, and having seen where nuclear HLW (High Level Waste e.g. Uranium reactor fuel) materal can produce heat at the rate of 2kW/m³ I'll have to have a second opinion on this ...

Reference: www.uic.com.au/nip51.htm

[EternalHope]

Presumably, a "suitcase nuke" would use plutonium239, which has a half life of about 24,000 years. As for warhead weight, the plutonium core in "fat man" was only 6.2 kilograms. (Obviously, the overall weight would be considerably higher.)

As I said in an earlier post, the key is having enough "extra" plutonium to be willing to "waste" some. The "extra" plutonium can be used in lieu of tritium to boost yield, and in lieu of isotopes with an extremely short half-life to help start the chain reaction.

Age would not be a factor for anything with a half life as long as plutonium. It COULD be a factor with the explosives and/or the electronics used to trigger the explosives. Electronics can be damaged by neutron emissions, and need a lot of maintenance if exposed to them. Hence a bomb of this type may need to have the fissile materials separated from the rest of the bomb during storage.

[Iris7]

Use by Al Queda of small nuclear devices is unlikely to be militarily important. Such devices are more efficiently used for intimidation and extortion. For such political uses the threat must be credible and perhaps Manhattan will again be the scene of action.

[_Jim]

Age would not be a factor for anything with a half life as long as plutonium.

I guess you need to do some more reading on this topic as well as consider what the 'goal' here is; compact, efficient, high-yeild back-pack sized device.

The attainment of that goal would not seem to be as simple as it is possibly being made out in your mind; during implosion it seems that it is highly desirous to enhance neutron flux at the moment of implosion; this is no doubt achieved through the use of some shorted lived isotopes (you seem to have missed this point entirely; I make it painfully obvious for all to see now) of other materials used somewhere 'in the mix' to achieve this desired 'enhanced neutron flux'.

It is these/this other material (isotopes such as Tritium or, from what I have read, Americium) is what gives a suitcase-sized nuke its short life. where short life is that time during which full yield can be expected.

Outside this period lower yield and/or possible non-operation can be expected.

[EternalHope]

I'll have to have a second opinion on this.

OK, 2nd Opinion: I've haven't "handled" the core, but I certainly have "handled" the stuff around it. They ain't hot (temperature wise).

Remember, radioactive decay (and associated heat) can be many things other than neutron emission. But alpha and beta particles are not going to set off a chain reaction.

[Iris7]

What you say about high level nuclear reactor waste is of course true. One recollects the Russian processing accidents.

Nuclear weapons use carefully separated isotopes.

[_Jim]

Well, so far, you haven't answered the original question with anything but subjective observations ...

[EternalHope]

I doubt more reading would help. I already know how to do this stuff.

You are talking about efficient bombs, which are much more sophisticated than they need to be if the amount of plutonium is not a limiting factor.

You also missed key parts of the presumed goal: simple, long lived, low maintenance. That CAN be achieved, although I do not know if it actually WAS.

I've explained how. Whether you choose to think differently is up to you.

[GOPJ]

Thanks for the info...

[Sender]

You make some very logical points.

[mad_as_he$$]

I agree about the nukes but there are Russians available to do maintenance - for a price. Thought Hiroshima was bigger but I'll believe 12.5 KT, I would still like about 30 if I was making a point. Especially a ground event.

[COEXERJ145]

Hiroshima is debated. Some say 12.5kt while other's day 15kt. Most historians now go with 12.5kt as the more accurate yield. Nagasaki and Trinity were in the 20-22kt range.

30 Kilotons at 500ft to 1500ft would be devastating. Even a ground burst would be very destructive.

That said, I still have serious doubts about these kinds of stories not only because of what I know about nuclear weapons but because the same stories (with minor variations) have appeared every year since Sept. 11th.

[dontpethesweatythings]

Then maybe you should move soon;)

[GOPJ]

In his audiotape of Jan. 19, bin Laden offered America a truce, then said "The only reason we have not attacked you yet is not because of your security precautions. It is simply because we are not quite through with the preparations. The minute the preparations are through, you will feel the attacks in your own homes."

Yeah, that's one religious guy all right... What a jerk -- Off with him.

[mad_as_he$$]

I agree it is one of those stories that seems to have a cycle. What concerns me is that the "missing" Soviet era nukes have been on the pipeline for about 15 years. It does seem that somebody would of at least tried to use one by now. The other thing that bothers me is that you can't swing a dead cat in the mercenary world without hitting a Russian.

Hiroshima may have seemed bigger because as I recall it is in kind of a bowl geographically.

[A CA Guy]

Supposedly all that stuff declines with time anyway, but if some terrorist release nukes, IMO the gloves come off and America becomes Rambo on steroids and starts to level Islamic cities and cult holy sites.

IMO

[_Jim]

I doubt more reading would help. I already know how to do this stuff.

THAT may be the problem.

(And now you are making me really lose faith faith in some of you 'keyboard warriors' here.)

Since I got zero input and cooperation from you chaps, I had to dig up the following information 'cause you guys either 1) did know this and would not share it, 2) did not know it and would not say so 3) simply didn't know it or 4) didn't know but also didn't know where to look it up.

In any case, the net result was the same.

Now, on to the meat of the matter, to wit, the amount of heat energy that could be expected to be produced by typical 'warhead' nuclear material (I'll assume Plutonium-239 here).

Flat out, it get warms, quite warm as a matter of fact if enclosed and insulated from the ambient (insulated from the 'pool' of air that we are all immersed in and cooled by).

Okay, try this in your pipe:

Plutonium-239 is the preferred isotope for weapons use. ... Pu-239 produces almost 2 watts/kg. ...

Pieces of Pu-239 are consequently quite warm.

If a piece were thoroughly insulated, its temperature would rise from room temperature to the boiling point of water in less than two hours, and to the alpha-beta transition point soon after.

This presents a problem in weapon design since elevated temperatures can be reached from self-heating, even if environmental heating is avoided.

Reference

[DakotaRed]

You mention something the left has yet to grasp. Al Qaeda doesn't care who supports them here, they want all of us dead.

Liberals can whine about Islamic rights, civil rights, whatever, radical Muslims still want them as dead as much as they want us dead.