[Uncle Bill]

Nuclear Smuggling From The Former Soviet Union: Threats And Responses
"A 1998 U.S. federal indictment charges that Osama bin Laden and his associates have tried to buy bomb-making components "at various times" since 1992."

Finding Russia's Lost Radioactive Luggage
"According to Curt Weldon, a Republican congressman, the former Soviet Union produced 132 10-kiloton suitcase nukes. Today, Russia can account for only 48. Where are the other 84? The Clinton-Gore administration doesn't know and, outrageously, doesn't seem to care.

...They said that to prepare for possible hostilities with the United States, the KGB pre-deployed nuclear suitcases somewhere near Brainerd, Minnesota, in Montana, beside a Texas oil pipeline and adjacent to harbours in California and New York City."

Bin Laden has several Nuclear Suitcases

Bin Laden has 20 nuclear bombs

Terrorist Leader Osama Bin Laden Reportedly has Nuclear Weapons - Michael Reagan

Did Bill Clinton Smooth the Way for Bin Laden to Become the World's Most Successful Terrorist?
"Bin Laden's camp was- a spot we really knew how to find, inasmuch as we, through the CIA, built it while helping the Afghans fight the Russians.

In December 1993, Independent News' journalist Robert Fisk met and interviewed Osama bin Laden in Almatig, Sudan. Fisk mentioned that bin Laden "was greeting Sudanese villagers who were lined up to thank."

Suitcase Size Nukes Were Transferred by USSR to US

U.S.: Bin Laden Case Latest Example Of Terrorism On Trial
"A U.S. government witness, Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl, at hearings last week, told of how suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden organized his al Qaeda group after declaring a religious war against the United States in the early 1990s. Al-Fadl testified that bin Laden set up training sites to instruct operatives how to use explosives. He mentioned at least one attempt to purchase uranium, which is used to make nuclear weapons."

Sharing Efforts in Weapons?

Adminstration: No Ultimatum on bin Laden
"A U.S. government counterrorism expert told UPI that Bin Laden has also spent some $5 million trying to purchase a nuclear suitcase bomb from Russian renegades in Kazakhstan."

"we are safer today from the threat of massive nuclear war than at any point since the dawn of the atomic age, we are more vulnerable now to the suitcase bomb.." - Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld

[chuckles]

We have had nukes that fit in a 105 Howitzer for 40 years. I always wondered how you could shoot one far enough not to do yourself in. There are pictures in my 1960's World Book. 105mm is about as wide as a cigarette is long. If we can do it, somebody else can too.........after an illegal campaign contribution, and a date with his sister, you can have whatever you want.