Posted on 12/04/2001 5:11:56 PM PST by codebreaker
One factor in the third general terror alert raised in the United States since the September 11 relates according to US media, to intelligence information indicating the the former Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden has gained possession of a so-called dirty or radiological bomb. The target date referred to in electronic intercepts is Mid-December. It has also been suggested that such weapons may have smuggled into the United States.
On Oct. 12 DEBKA-Net-Weekley reported from its intelligence sources that Bin Laden had almost certainly procured a supply of uranium -235 six months before the September 11 suicide attacks. The uranium was believed to have reached him in a multimillion deal with a Ukranian-born mobster called Semion Mogilevich.
DEBKA-Net- Weekley came back to the subject more recently on November 30, in another exclusive report:RADIATION POISIONING BETRAYS MULE
In the first week of October, Pakastani arrested on immigration charges in the course of the FBI investigation into the September 11 suicide attacks, complained of bleeding gums and pain, symptoms of gingivitis. He was treated with antibiotics, but was found dead in his cell in Hudson Couty jail in Kearny, New Jersey, three weeks later.
The cause of death was not released, any more than the dead man's identity.
DEBKA-Net Weekley's medical experts note that the bleeding gums the anonymous Pakistani was treated for are a symptom of radiation poisioning, suggesting he might have been a 'mule' transporting nuclear materials or devices into America. (A subsequent investigation revealed that he had contracted gingivitis in a result of radiation-induced lukemia)
This explanaion would imply that more than one such carrier is employed by al Qaeda to smuggle nuclear materials or devices into the United States, Western Europe and the Middile East, their mission being to plant their deadly burders in pre-arranged secret locations, ready for activation.
Heheheh.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/583757/posts?page=7#7
Don't be silly.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there have been frequent reports of illicit trafficking in fissile materials from the NIS. Especially since the events of September 11, 2001, there has been widespread concern that terrorist organizations or proliferant states may illicitly obtain fissile material from the NIS. Looking closely at the available open-source evidence, one can identify 13 confirmed cases in which more than minuscule quantities of highly enriched uranium (HEU) or plutonium have been stolen or diverted from nuclear facilities in NIS. In five of these cases, the material was exported beyond the NIS before it was recovered. In seven other cases, the material was seized before it left the NIS. In one case, the whereabouts of the stolen material remain unknown. Aside from these 13 cases, in one additional case, an attempted theft at a Russian nuclear facility was thwarted before the conspirators removed the material involved from the site. All of these incidents are of proliferation concern because of the type and quantity of material involved and/or because of the circumstances surrounding them. Each case, with the possible exception of the 1993 St. Petersburg incident, can be regarded as confirmed because multiple independent sources corroborate the diversion and the quantity and enrichment level of the material involved.
OVERVIEW OF CONFIRMED PROLIFERATION-SIGNIFICANT INCIDENTS OF FISSILE MATERIAL TRAFFICKING IN THE NIS, 1991-2001
| CASE NAME & DATE OF DIVERSION | MATERIAL DIVERTED | ORIGIN OF MATERIAL | RECOVERY OF MATERIAL |
| Podolsk 5/92-9/92 |
1.5 kg of 90% HEU | Luch Scientific Production Association, Podolsk, Russia | 10/9/92: Russian police operation intercepted the smugglers in the Podolsk train station. |
| Vilnius, Lithuania early 1992 |
About 100 g 50% HEU | Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk,Russia | 5/93: Approximately 100 g HEU discovered in Vilnius bank vault embedded in portions of a shipment of four metric tons of beryllium. |
| Andreeva Guba 7/29/93 |
1.8 kg of 36% HEU | Naval base storage facility, Andreeva Guba, Russia | 7/29/93: Russian security forces arrested the thieves before they could smuggle the material out of Russia. |
| Tengen Unknown |
6.15 g of Plutonium-239 | Unconfirmed; possibly Arzamas-16, Russia | 5/10/94: Police in suspect's apartment for another reason, stumbled upon the cache of plutonium. |
| Landshut Unknown |
800 mg of 87.7% HEU | Unconfirmed; likely Obninsk | 6/13/94: Undercover German police acted as potential customers in a sting operation. |
| Sevmorput 11/27/93 |
4.5 kg of 20% HEU | Naval shipyard, Sevmorput, Russia | 6/94: The brother of a suspect asked a co-worker for help finding a customer. The co-worker notified authorities. |
| Munich Unknown |
560 g MOX fuel; 363 g of Plutonium-239 | Unconfirmed; likely Obninsk | 8/10/94: Undercover German police acted as potential customers in a sting operation. |
| Prague Unknown |
2.7 kg of 87.7% HEU | Unconfirmed; likely Obninsk | 12/14/94: Anonymous tip to police giving the material's location (a parked car). In two instances in June 1995, Czech authorities recovered small additional amounts of HEU believed to be from the same source. |
| St. Petersburg[*] Unknown |
3.05 kg of 90% HEU | Unconfirmed; likely Machine Building Plant, Elektrostal, Russia | 6/8/94: Russian news agencies report that in March 1994, Russian Federal Security Service agents arrested three suspects attempting to sell about three kg of HEU. Russian officials have confirmed the incident. |
| Moscow May 1994 |
1.7 kg HEU | Elektrostal | 6/8/95: In a sting operation, Russian Federal Security Service agents arrested three suspects trying to sell HEU, one of whom was an employee of Elektrostal. |
| Sukhumi Unknown |
Approximately 2 kg of 90% HEU | I.N. Vekua Physics and Technology Institute, Sukhumi, Georgia | 12/97: Russian inspection team visited facility, which had been closed by 1992 Abkhazian-Georgian conflict, and found facility abandoned, and material included in 1992 inventory missing. Material has not been recovered. |
| Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia Unknown |
18.5kg HEU (enrichment level unspecified) | Unknown, possibly Mayak Production Association, Chelyabinsk-70, or Zlatoust-36 | 12/17/98: Russian Federal Security service reports that it thwarted an attempt by workers at a nuclear facility in Chelyabinsk Oblast to steal 18.5 kg nuclear material. 10/00: Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy official confirms incident involved HEU. |
| Dunav Most, Bulgaria Unknown |
10 g 76% HEU | Unknown | 5/29/99: Bulgarian customs officers discovered HEU hidden in the trunk of a car crossing into Bulgaria from Turkey. Driver said he had obtained material in Moldova. |
| Batumi, Georgia Unknown |
920 g 30% HEU | Unknown | 4/19/00: Georgian police arrested four suspects and seized HEU. |
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Whew! I sure am glad the devoted and well funded Russian Security forces caught them ALL.
You may be right, but at the time, she didn't think so.
As far as gauging this gentleman's power and might, we'll just have to wait for the new Sopranos season won't we.
Leukemia does not develop in a matter of days. If he smuggled in a dirty bomb and developed leukemia due to radiation exposure, the bomb's been here for a long time. It's certainly not something recently smuggled in.
This lack of knowledge about basic medicine indicates that DEBKA is probably, as some have said, a high school student.
Calling Wesley Snipes!
I don’t dispute that, but U-235 makes a fine “dirty bomb”, it just doesn't blow-up as nicely as U-238. Most likely, if Bum Laden got’s any radioactive material, it is left over from some other process (refining, reacting, etc.).
BTW, Debka is not the only source for this type of report.
I think it's a looney calendar myself...
When I first saw the headline, I thought to myself, "Now does DEBKA really want us to believe the first nuke casualty is a mule in New Jersey?"
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