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Author Paul Williams: Al-Qaida 'Definitely Has Nukes'
NewsMax ^ | Tuesday, June 5, 2007 | Phil Brennan

Posted on 06/05/2007 2:12:24 PM PDT by ovrtaxt

America is facing a nuclear attack from al-Qaida terrorists living in the U.S. or crossing our all but unguarded borders, warns Dr. Paul Williams in his chilling new book "The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World."

Remarkably, just hours after NewsMax.com conducted an exclusive interview with the author, U.S. authorities announced the arrest of three terrorists who planned an attack on New York City's JFK airport — which read as if details surrounding the plot had been taken directly from the pages of his book.

Williams, a former FBI consultant and an expert on the subjects of al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden, also is the author of "Osama's Revenge," "The Next 9/11," and "The al-Qaida Connection." He has long maintained that the menace posed by this sinister group of murderous terrorists is both real and widespread. [Editor's Note: Get Paul Williams' explosive "The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World" FREE — Click Here Now.]

In his interview with NewsMax, Williams discussed al-Qaida's successful efforts to obtain nuclear weapons for use against the United States.

NewsMax: Does al-Qaida have nuclear weapons?

Williams: They definitely have nukes. There's no doubt about it. There's positive proof. As I wrote in my book, in the first three months of Operation Enduring Freedom — the Gulf War — our troops found in a cave outside of Khandahar in Afghanistan a canister filled with Uranium 238 [the basic ingredient for a nuclear bomb] and in Turnak Farms [where at one time 1,800 members of al-Qaida lived and worked] they found jars and jars and jars of yellow cake [pure uranium, dried].

The most alarming thing of all involved a Pakistani operative who was driving over the Allenby Bridge between Jordan and Israel in a shabby Volkswagen mini-bus. The Israelis stopped him and in the back of the Volkswagen was a plutonium implosion device, the most sophisticated of all nuclear weapons. According to the Mossad people I spoke to, it was in excess of 10 kilotons.

It could have taken out all of Israel in the blink of an eye. If one of these babies went off with 10 kilotons, first of all you'd have the conventional explosion, which if it occurred at the site of 9/11, would take out all of lower Manhattan.

From that would come a fireball that would be about 750 feet in diameter — the core would reach a temperature of 10 million degrees Celsius, which means in the blink of an eye everything would disintegrate. After that would come juggernaut blasts ripping through the city with winds in excess of 640 miles per hour, and after that would come the mushroom cloud and the radioactive fallout that would spew into the five boroughs of New York, into Connecticut and New Jersey. The end result is that millions would be dead.

NewsMax: What is the possibility that there is a store of nukes here in the United States?

Williams: There's no doubt about that. Before 9/11 a guy by the name of Sheik Kabbani, the president of the Supreme Islamic Council of North America, appeared before the Senate and the House and said that over 48 nukes were here. There was also a Waziristan summit meeting in Pakistan in April 2004. Attending it were the leading planners of the next 9/11. Included was one Sharif al Masry, and Adnan el-Shukrijumah, the next Mohammad Atta, and a terrorist from Brooklyn.

They all confirmed that nuclear weapons had been developed by al-Qaida with the help of scientists and technicians from the A.Q. Khan Research laboratories. The most chilling thing, they said was that all of the weapons had been forward deployed to Mexico and transported over the border into the U.S.

This story was reported in a little tiny paragraph in Time magazine. It was buried in there. The fact that nuclear weapons had been developed [by al-Qaida], and the researchers at the A.Q. Khan facility had confirmed that, and transported to Mexico and then into the United States — you couldn't get a bigger story than that.

NewsMax: Doesn't this indicate the seriousness of the problem with our borders?

Williams: It's madness. The borders are not just open. People say the "porousness" of our borders but that's not accurate — our borders are wide open.

© NewsMax 2007. All rights reserved.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaedanukes; annihilation; bookreview; buymybook; dayofislam; nuclear; paulwilliams; wmd
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To: ovrtaxt

9/11 was 8 years after the first WTC bombing.

DO NOT underestimate the patience of Al Qaeda. Dirtheadsama’s favorite recitation reportedly is “Out/overpatience patience itself” and is recited daily in AQ training/prayers.

It is very, very reasonable to assume by 2010 they will be ready.


41 posted on 06/05/2007 2:40:37 PM PDT by rjp2005 (Lord have mercy on us)
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To: Perdogg

9-11 was some special date in history for the mooselimbs.
From what i hear all important things to them are in regards historical.
Thus they await some date with special meaning to them.
When that date comes and they launch their efforts they will explain.

Pretty stupid but then hey if you lived in the eighth century?


42 posted on 06/05/2007 2:41:05 PM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: ovrtaxt

Look, I’m sorry, but I can’t get that all excited about this supposed worse case scenario. First of all the writer states that the Implosion device is the most sophisticated of all devices. He is assuming that the nanosecond timing can be achieved by these muzzies. Hell Korea couldn’t do better than a “fizzle”.

Another thing. . .48 devices in this country?! That sounds like hyperbole to jack up sales for this book. This all sounds like a wild wet dream on the part of the author.

Just how big does anyone thing that a 20 Kiloton bomb would be?? Any guesses? Sure we have warheads that will fit in the back of a truck, but it is not an easy thing to set of one of our warheads. Korea’s warhead was about the size of a 18wheeler trailer. I sincerely doubt that 48 nuclear bombs and all of the accompanying support personnel and resources could be hidden too long.

On a BS meter; I give this a 7. There may be some discussing and wishing similar to the JFK fuel demolition, but actual threat of 48 bombs here and this country in imminent danger; 70 8 on the CS scale out of a possible 10.

This sounds more like the network nightly news where you don’t see a story unless it is designed to frighten you and you are told that there is a crisis.


43 posted on 06/05/2007 2:41:49 PM PDT by noname07718
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To: toddlintown


"Gimme ten-thousand on al-Quada..."
44 posted on 06/05/2007 2:46:59 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (I'm Fred, White and Blue!)
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To: martin_fierro

“short people got, no reason to, no reason...” Let’s all sing along.


45 posted on 06/05/2007 2:47:16 PM PDT by Perdogg (congratulations - you have just won an ipod nano)
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To: DBrow
The possibility of detection by a hostile (to A-Q) is very high, and Israel or the US or maybe England would go all out to “neutralize” it if they thought there was one.

Ahem, Jack Bauer is a TV character.

As for our current Department of Homeland Security , I wouldn't depend on them to find their own a** with both hands!!!

46 posted on 06/05/2007 2:49:19 PM PDT by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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To: ScubieNuc

If you blow up this country with nukes, who is going to be around to give the order against whom???


47 posted on 06/05/2007 2:49:31 PM PDT by Perdogg (congratulations - you have just won an ipod nano)
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To: Borges
That would solve two problems with one bang, wouldn’t it?
I mean, stuff happens...
48 posted on 06/05/2007 2:51:29 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA)
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To: ovrtaxt
our troops found in a cave outside of Khandahar in Afghanistan a canister filled with Uranium 238 [the basic ingredient for a nuclear bomb]

U-238 is depleted uranium. We use that stuff in tank and other ammunition when you really want to punch through armor. U-235 is enriched uranium you use to fuel reactors and make bombs. If the author doesn't know the difference, then he probably has no idea about anything else he's writing about.

49 posted on 06/05/2007 2:51:36 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
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To: ovrtaxt
yellow cake [pure uranium, dried].

NOT! It's uranium oxide, U3O8, not uranium metal, and that's a Good Thing. A step or three farther from UF6 which is what is generally used during the enrichment process.

50 posted on 06/05/2007 2:52:07 PM PDT by El Gato (The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: ovrtaxt

“our troops found in a cave outside of Khandahar in Afghanistan a canister filled with Uranium 238 [the basic ingredient for a nuclear bomb]”

Uranium 238 is not the basic ingredient for a nuclear bomb. U238 is generally called ‘depleted Uranium’ because the fissionable U235 has been removed.


51 posted on 06/05/2007 2:56:39 PM PDT by james500
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To: Joe Boucher
9/11 is an anniversary of the western calendar, but according to the Islamic calender, the anniversary of 9/11 will occur on July 8th.
52 posted on 06/05/2007 2:59:31 PM PDT by Perdogg (congratulations - you have just won an ipod nano)
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To: ScubieNuc
One possible explanation would be the knowledge that US submarines alone could and would eliminate Mecca and Medina within 24 hours of a nuke explosion in America.

If a couple of nukes went off in the U.S., I suspect our response would be much larger than that. Our nuclear subs could take out every major city in all Islamic countries while leaving plenty in reserve in case the Chinese or Russians take exception to our actions.

I know it is unwise to underestimate your enemies but the logistical problems of placing and maintaining 48 nukes in the U.S. without detection would be mind boggling. This doesn't pass the smell test.

53 posted on 06/05/2007 3:07:34 PM PDT by CommerceComet
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To: Perdogg

11 Sept 1683 is the date that Islam’s 2nd Jihad against the Europe was defeated.

11 Sept 2001 is the date that the Islam’s 3rd Jihad became manifest


54 posted on 06/05/2007 3:07:56 PM PDT by pacelvi
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To: ovrtaxt
According to the Mossad people I spoke to, it was in excess of 10 kilotons. It could have taken out all of Israel in the blink of an eye. If one of these babies went off with 10 kilotons, first of all you'd have the conventional explosion, which if it occurred at the site of 9/11, would take out all of lower Manhattan. From that would come a fireball that would be about 750 feet in diameter — the core would reach a temperature of 10 million degrees Celsius, which means in the blink of an eye everything would disintegrate. After that would come juggernaut blasts ripping through the city with winds in excess of 640 miles per hour, and after that would come the mushroom cloud and the radioactive fallout that would spew into the five boroughs of New York, into Connecticut and New Jersey. The end result is that millions would be dead.

10 KT would not destroy all of Israel. Blast radius for a ground level 10 KT explosion is about 1/3 mile of total destruction, 3/4 mile for major structural damage and 1 mile for major fires. 10KT is smaller than either the Hiroshima (15 KT) or Nagsaki bombs(21 KT), both of those were airbursts, which give a larger blast radious, and less secondary radiation effects too. The distances for various amounts of overpressure for a 10KT ground burst are:

15 psi: 0.71 miles
5 psi: 1.3 miles
2 psi: 2.28 miles
1 psi: 3.37 miles
0.25 psi: 8.63 miles
0.1 psi: 17.68 miles
(Information from HYDESim (Map for Lower Manhattan, which would indeed be wiped out by a 10 KT ground burst.

55 posted on 06/05/2007 3:09:38 PM PDT by El Gato (The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: ozdragon
I think countries hesitate to attack each other. If a country knew that a group without a specific country affiliation had a nuke, the constraints on response would be much less. Clinton’s attack on the terrorist camps is an example (it didn’t go well because of security breaches, but at least Tomahawks were launched).

A group like A-Q does not have the assets to protect something like a nuke, compared to what Korea has, or the US. They also don’t have good access to “national technical means” so that they really can’t be sure of how well the operation is hidden.

If they had a well-defended bunker with good security inside and out, it would be pretty visible in a number of ways. Taking it out would also be visible and hard for a nation to deny.

If they have it stashed in an old warehouse on the edge of town with a lookout up the street, it’s pretty vulnerable and it could be taken down without a lot of fuss for a country, and fairly easy to deny.

56 posted on 06/05/2007 3:10:12 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: ovrtaxt
© NewsMax

Funny, that doesn't look like a misspelling of "World Net Daily".

57 posted on 06/05/2007 3:14:18 PM PDT by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: ovrtaxt
Do Jihadis care if their lands receive a retailatory strike? Well, lets ask one..
We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.

- Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Khomeini, Holy City of Qom 1980


How would Muslims view dying in the context of destroying the Great Satan in nuclear fire? Well lets see how they react to their guarenteed death in fire when going after the Little Satan:
After decades of struggle the Palestinians are convinced that they have finally discovered Israel's Achilles' heel. Ismail Haniya, another Hamas leader, was quoted in March of last year in The Washington Post as saying that Jews "love life more than any other people, and they prefer not to die." In contrast, suicide terrorists are often said to have gone to their deaths smiling. An Israeli policeman told me, "A suicide bomber goes on a bus and finds himself face-to-face with victims and he smiles and he activates the bomb—but we learned that only by asking people afterwards who survived." This is what is known in the Shia Islamic tradition as the bassamat al-farah, or "smile of joy"—prompted by one's impending martyrdom. It is just as prevalent among Sunni terrorists. (Indeed, the last will and testament of Mohammed Atta, the ringleader of the September 11 hijackers, and his "primer" for martyrs, The Sky Smiles, My Young Son, clearly evidence a belief in the joy of death.)


You read that? They're f'ing smiling right before they cause explosives to destroy their own bodies.

After they nuke the US, i'm sure the survivors will be comforted by many of you people's ambivilence.
58 posted on 06/05/2007 3:15:28 PM PDT by pacelvi
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To: ovrtaxt

I created a thread related this topic earlier today

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845204/posts


59 posted on 06/05/2007 3:16:46 PM PDT by pacelvi
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To: ovrtaxt

60 posted on 06/05/2007 3:19:22 PM PDT by pacelvi
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