Al-Qaida nuke bomb threat alleged

msnbc ^ | 4/22/02

[knak]

NBC: Terror network seeks material to explode bomb in U.S.

WASHINGTON, April 22 — A captured key strategist for the al-Qaida network told interrogators Monday that al-Qaida was working to obtain fissionable material for radiation bombs to be exploded in the United States, NBC News has learned. U.S. officials could not confirm the assertions of the strategist, Abu Zubaydah, but said they were taking him at his word.

SOURCES TOLD NBC News that Zubaydah, believed to be one of the top lieutenants of Osama bin Laden, believed to be the mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, was cooperating with his interrogators. Officials said they did not know how to evaluate his information but were taking him seriously about bombs.

The officials said they would give Zubaydah’s information about al-Qaida’s quest for fissionable material the same consideration they gave a warning the U.S. government issued to banks Friday.

In that warning, the government said “unsubstantiated information” pointed to a possible terrorist threat against financial institutions. The FBI did not elaborate on that threat, but administration officials told NBC News that Zubaydah had revealed a possible plot to send suicide bombers into banks in the northeastern United States.

In the warning Monday, Zubaydah told U.S. investigators that al-Qaida operatives already had the knowledge to build the bomb, but he did not say that such a weapon had already been delivered to the United States, sources said.

Zubaydah is in U.S. custody at an undisclosed location. He is being treated for gunshot wounds he suffered when he was captured during a raid by Pakistani forces in Faisalabad on March 28.

Court testimony in the United States and in Jordan showed that Zubaydah effectively directed the so-called Millennium Plot, a plan to attack hotels and tourist sites in Jordan and at Los Angeles International Airport on New Year’s Day 2000. He has been sentenced to death in absentia in Jordan.

He is also believed to have directed the deadly bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000. Seventeen U.S. sailors were killed in that attack.

[Thane_Banquo]

How about we say that for every nuclear weapon or radiation bomb that goes off in the United States, we will nuke 5 Iraqi cities. Then we'll find out for sure who is really behind all this.

[TLI]

how bout if ONE goes off here, from there, we just vaporise "there" or zap it with neutron bombs and go back to being America, without all this USA is the great Satan BS? Sound good?

[Standing Wolf]

Fine. Nuke the capitals of Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Lybia. Maybe they'd like to talk about their support of and participation in terrorist savagry.

[abraxas_sandiego]

high-voltage jumper cables clamped to the testicles followed by 35cc of sodium pentathol apparently makes one quite talkative...however, is there anything here we hadn't known or suspected already?

[Travis McGee]

But will they pray to a glowing crater?

[Travis McGee]

Yeah, "doctors" with garden tools.

Dull rusty muddy garden tools.

[TheLooseThread]

Martians?

Damn illegal aliens...

[ccmay]

There nothing like a South Korean Army interrogation of prisoners.

Yes there is, interrogation by South Korean Marines!

-ccm

[backhoe]

Some useful info:

Nuclear News you *can* use--

Nuclear, Biological, & Chemical Warfare- Survival Skills, Pt. II

[1234]

...And is gonna be worse ten years from today. Get ready, get used, and most importantly, plan on being on your own.

your reminder causes me to further mull a foreign destination for my family-to think that our timid and confused gubmint has gotten us to this....

[AmericanInTokyo]

That's just great. Some of our major cities are probably about to get dirty nuked in a few years by infiltrators and sleepers.

If this was all 'going down' on President Clinton's watch, there would be streams of Freepers and other conservatives out in front of the White House "freeping" to have the US international borders completely shut down and all aspects of immigration reviewed including suspending amnesty including mass deportation of undesirables from terrorist profiled nations.

But as it is, you can't do that.

Because the administration is Republican, donchya know?.....

[AmericanInTokyo]

New Zealand is probably about as safe as anywhere during this whole damned mess....

[1234]

tx-new one for me-will consider

[hford02]

how about a muslim site nuke lottery - we put the names of Mecca, Medina, Damascus, Bagdad, etc.. on lottery balls and if ANY WMD are used against the US or allies then we draw a ball and fire an ICBM within an hour.

[SuziQ]

My butt got tight when I relaized they could hit a nuclear plant.

LOL! The 'pucker effect' at work!

[exmarine]

They nuke Washington, we nuke MECCA. Let's put an end to this satanic cult once and for all! If Allah is real, then Mecca will withstand the nuclear blast. I say, let's put it to the test.

[kinghorse]

USA public stance stated in barroom parlance:

If you hit me, you better kill me.

[kinghorse]

Washington for Mecca? Surely you jest. Washington for Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, Tehran, Mogadishu, Tripoli, All three major Saudi cities, North Korea, a couple of Chinese cities and Marseilles for good measure.