BIN-LADEN Could Have 20 Nukes: Expert

World tribune.com via FR 1999 ^ | August 9, 1999 (NOTICE THE DATE) | Worldtribune.com Staff

[DrLiberty]

I was casually going thru my archive of old info saved and came across this - Who is and where is this guy Bodansky? Has he been discredited?

And didn't Bin Laden supposedly just communicate with the outside world? Your thoughts Freepers.

[Thud]

If bin Laden had useable nuclear weapons or radiological devices (fizzly old nukes), he would have used them two weeks ago.

If you believe everything you read, please read the following:

You will give me all your money.

[Husker24]

If he really had these nukes, wouldnt it have been easier to just nuke a few cities in the U.S, then Hijack 4 planes.I think if he had them he would have used them.

[ScottinSacto]

Excuse my ignorance...Does anyone know if these "suitcase nukes" really exist? Do we have them? Or are they just fictional creativity for movies like "The Peacemaker" with George Clooney?

[DrLiberty]

I didn't say I believed it. However....

Bin Laden has been escalating his attacks. If you beleive as I do, He was probably involved in OK City and TWA 800, along with what we know of WTC first bombing, Saudi barracks, and USS Cole.

I only offer this up for conjecture.....you haven't heard much about his capability...it might explain a few things about our response to date (or lack thereof)

Bin Laden can't be accused of being stupid. He apparently thinks and acts like a chessplayer (could he be KGB influenced - we know he had CIA contact)

[dalebert]

And 20 Experts have 20 different views. 3Mile Island was almost a nuke.

[Pokey78]

Exactly.

[Spiff]

My fear is that he does have one or two. And that he's saving them to use when we've got our forces massed over in the MidEast, ready to strike him.

Suicide bombers pop a nuke on our troops, killing most of them and destroying all of the tanks, trucks, equipment, supplies, etc. And, simultaneously, suicide bombers take out all of Washington D.C. with the 2nd nuke.

The ensuing anarchy defies the imagination.

[DrLiberty]

They appear to exist, in the lexicon of the intel agencies.

We know there are low-yield nukes, and miniturization is continually occurring in all other tech fields.

It is possible though, that they may have been popularized to the outside world (and thru movies like "The Peacemaker") to help gain acceptance by the public to the dangers of the spreading of nukes and terrorist use.

[Poohbah]

If he "saves" them, they will fizzle before very long.

³He contamination in the tritium is a VERY big issue, particularly with "fractional-crit" devices.

[Poohbah]

Bodansky is a "terrorism expert," which means that he's written books (mostly for the subsidy press) about terrorism used to scare the bejeezus out of Americans, and appears on TV to scare the bejeezus out of Americans.

[DrLiberty]

I have been VERY concerned by a scenario like yours.

We are forgetting that this guy's moves aren't a means to an end. He is David, we are Goliath. How do you defeat Goliath???

You get Goliath to overcommit and spread his forces far and wide. We are a giant straining for a gnat with a huge overkill of forces. We are allowing him to get us out of position and I fear we are not guarding our perimeter against possible ambushes.

Special forces should take their time, isolate them and kill them one by one. We should be careful of Bin Laden and his 60-nation network.

[Bogie]

Well we know that Pakastan is ready, but we know that the US has one hell of a lead. It's a no win for them, no matter what.

[dalebert]

I think we should send the House Intelligence Committee to deal with Bin Laden. They could make him vanish and no one would know a thing just like Chandra.

[Bogie]

P.S. Think "Knights of St. John."

[Poohbah]

The scenario you describe is downright silly. This isn't going to be a war of tanks, artillery, and massed phalanxes of troops. As for having nukes, that's one thing. Keeping those nukes OPERATIONAL is something else.

And if the Chechens actually had some nukes, they would have used them on Russia before they would have let the Russians blast Grozny into rubble--or they would have used them as revenge.

[Redcloak]

If bin Laden had useable nuclear weapons or radiological devices (fizzly old nukes), he would have used them two weeks ago.

You beat me to it. These pukes always use the biggest gun in their bag. That they haven't used such weapons is a pretty good indication that they don't have them. Not that they aren't trying to get them; all the more reason to smash them into tread grease.

[Spiff]

We should also be careful of trusting Pakistan at all. The only information that their armed forces should get it pure misinformation/psyops stuff. I'm sure it will all be leaked to Al-Qaeda immediately.