Al Qaeda again threatens America (Thread 3) Daily Terror Threat

World Tribune ^ | Thursday, February 5, 2004

[Mossad1967]

SANAA, Yemen, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- A purported statement by al-Qaida in Yemen warned Saturday of a "major strike" soon in the United States.

The statement, distributed by the Yemeni Tagamoo Party for Reforms, said: "A major strike, a big event will take place in America soon," reminiscent of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Previous threads

[TBall]

"Most agency veterinarians know mad cow is prevalent and epidemic (in U.S. herds). We're not talking about one or two cases." Yikes, if true we are going to be in for a world of hurt. The prion sounds like a tough nut to crack, but hopefully a cure can be found for CJD.

[JustPiper]

This mess comes from the top down.

Sure does

[Revel]

"Mercy is definitely DU!"

Please don't post things sounding like Nopardons,TexasForever,and Mrs Maples,Howlin, Ect. I have too much respect for you to hear that.

I can't believe that I am finding myself in a position to defend Mercy who I don't even like.

But he clearly says that he is a Reagan man. And I never heard of a DU'er who would say that.

Look...I may be forced to vote for Bush for security reasons only. But that does not change the fact that his social and legal policy is liberal, Leftist, and Dangerous. On the one hand you Say "Close the Borders" which I completely agree with. But on the other hand you are saying that anyone who does not like the guy that wants to throw them wide open is DU'er. Just because Mercy is a sour puss....does not make it fair to mis characterize every thing he says.

[Revel]

Sorry for the Rant. Tis why it is probably better we don't talk too much about politics here :)

[JustPiper]

think we need laser beams across our southern border. Land mines... Barb Wire

Barbed Wire looks so UNPC ;)

[JustPiper]

Being Mossad has named the last two threads because he didn't know what we wanted, now he does, just simply call us The Daily Terror Thread minus AlQ etc.

[LayoutGuru2]

I did some translation of abualbukhary.com post #900 and it appears that it discusses "Red Mercury" which is a non-existent WMD, IMHO. Here are some links if you want to read up on it though.

http://www.christian-patriots.us/DenialofRedMercury.html
http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1995/07/msg00643.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steveseymour/nuke/bali_micro_nuke.htm
http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_poovey_010803_redmerc3.html
http://www.tribulationalinstitute.com/Powerpoint/red_mercury_nightmare.htm

[JustPiper]

Sorry you didn't like what I said, and nopardons was once my friend...please don't be so judgmental Rev , respect is a two-way street

[TexKat]

UN Probes Europe's Possible Nuke Black Marketeers

UN Probes Europe's Possible Nuke Black Marketeers

Mon February 9, 2004 04:49 PM ET

By Louis Charbonneau

VIENNA, Austria (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog's list of Europeans who may have been suppliers to a global atomic black market that helped Iran, Libya and possibly North Korea skirt sanctions is getting longer by the day, diplomats said.

Last week, Abdul Qadeer Khan, the metallurgist credited with building up Pakistan's atomic weapons program, publicly confessed to leaking nuclear secrets. President Pervez Musharraf swiftly pardoned Khan, who remains a national hero in Pakistan.

"A company in Dubai close to Khan appears to have been the main player in the nuclear black market and handled the orders, procurement and shipping," a Western diplomat told Reuters.

Diplomats also said the Dubai-based network, which U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei has described as a supermarket for countries seeking nuclear weapons, shopped for many of its supplies in Europe.

The IAEA has already questioned at least two former employees of a German company as part of its investigation into how Iran skirted sanctions to build a uranium-enrichment gas centrifuge program, the diplomats said.

Enrichment is the purification of uranium for use as fuel in nuclear power plants or, when highly enriched, in bombs. Experts say getting bomb-grade material is the biggest hurdle countries with nuclear weapons ambitions must overcome.

One German on the list, contacted by Reuters, expressed shock at being named and denied being a middleman.

The U.N. probe identified people or companies from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, South Africa, Japan, Dubai, Malaysia, the United States, Spain, Russia, China and Pakistan.

"The circle of European countries named is going to get wider," predicted one Western diplomat. "There are a number of Germans whose names are being mentioned."

However, he said there were so many branches of the black market that it was difficult to say who was doing what.

"It's clear that there was a person or persons masterminding the whole thing," the diplomat said. "It was very well organized and I don't think most suppliers knew who the end users were."

Libya admitted in December it had sought nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and agreed to let experts from the United Nations, the United States and Britain disarm it.

The United States believes North Korea may have atomic weapons already. Washington says Iran's enrichment program, the full extent of which Tehran hid from U.N. inspectors and Western intelligence agencies for nearly two decades, is a front for developing an atom bomb. Iran rejects the accusation.

THE GERMAN CONNECTION

The black market's key middleman appears to have been a Sri Lankan businessman in Dubai. However, the IAEA is also looking at four Germans who might have helped Iran acquire enrichment technology that could be used in an arms program.

At least two of the people the IAEA has questioned are former senior employees of the German company Leybold Heraeus, a leading maker of vacuum technology. Today Leybold is a pared-down unit of the Swiss firm Unaxis AG, called Leybold Vakuum AG, focusing only on vacuum-pump technology.

Only one of the Germans on the IAEA list is now living in Germany. One resides in the Netherlands, another is in Switzerland and the fourth is dead. One diplomat called the man in Switzerland Germany's "most significant" suspect.

One German on the list is former Leybold sales manager Otto Heilingbrunner, who told Reuters in a telephone interview from his home in southern Germany he was surprised at being named a suspected middleman in the IAEA investigation.

"They told me I'm on the list of people who have transferred the parts of these centrifuges to Iran," the 80-year-old Heilingbrunner told Reuters. "I was pretty shocked."

Heilingbrunner, now retired and in poor health, said he was in Iran in the 1980s to help arrange the sale of equipment used to manufacture aircraft parts. He denied being a middleman.

In the 1980s, Heilingbrunner and fellow Leybold executive Gotthard Lerch, now living in Switzerland and on the IAEA list, were probed by German authorities, German sources told Reuters. Proceedings halted in 1990 for lack of evidence.

Leybold officials had no immediate comment when contacted.

Without giving details, Heilingbrunner also said that while at Leybold he traveled to Dubai on business. He also visited a number of countries known or widely suspected to be interested in nuclear weapons -- Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Libya.

(Additional reporting by Elisabeth O'Leary in Madrid, Mike Shields in Zurich and Mark Trevelyan in Berlin)

[Revel]

Still Proud is the translator. I belive she will look at the links you posted. I had a glance at them. The pictures were errie.

[Revel]

Well I did not want to hurt your feelings. I have no respect for the posters I mentioned because of there methods and because it is impossible to have a reasoned debate with them. All they do is attack without logic. I don't see you that way though. It was just one post. I think because of the frustration I have experienced in dealing with those other people and watching them make the kind of accusations They do to chase everyone away that I get really touchy when I see it. They have called me just about everything. Including a DU'er. My past posting at FR before most of them ever knew it existed is proof otherwise.

I still think you are a great poster and you really have done so much good here. I expect that this thread would have died in the early days if you had not been so vigilant :)

Please forgive my Earlier Rant.

[Revel]

Yes the Germans are our friends. (/Sarcasim off)

[FairOpinion]

I don't know about the existence or not of red mercury, but I did a search and came up with an interesting article, FWIW:

http://www.tribulationalinstitute.com/Powerpoint/red_mercury_nightmare.htm

Weekly Column - Tuesday, March 26, 2002
"The Balance of Terror and
the Red Mercury Nightmare"
by J. R. Nyquist

What the CIA director could not say, and perhaps what makes President George W. Bush so desperately eager to wipe out the regime of Saddam Hussein, is that Russia may have given red mercury fusion technology to Saddam. According to one of my sources, Iraq possesses "s-megaton" micro-nuclear warheads. These are softball-sized two-megaton fusion bombs triggered by an irradiated and compressed compound of mercury antimony oxide. This device doubles the nuclear yield with a hundredfold reduction of weight. Using heavy hydrogen instead of uranium or plutonium to fuel its explosive reaction, this hand-held nuclear weapon cannot be detected by U.S. sensors.

It should be acknowledged that CIA Director Tenet singled out Russia for a reason. Only Russia has compression technology in advance of America's. Only Russia has worked long and hard to develop a perfect fusion bomb (the U.S. having abandoned its own effort decades ago). And now American intelligence has evidence of something dire, something they don't want to tell us. According to STRATFOR, "A severe crisis between the two sides [America and Russia] may now be forming." As STRATFOR further points out, "Now the director of the CIA has named Russia as the key source of WMD proliferation."

Perhaps we are now in a position to understand what Mullah Omar, the Taliban leader, meant when he said last fall that America would soon be destroyed. He did not say America would be crippled, or that America would be defeated. He said America would disappear. When a suspect in the Danny Pearl kidnapping and murder case was being escorted by guards in Pakistan a couple of weeks ago, he reportedly shouted to the press, "Sell your dollars! Soon America will be gone."

[Revel]

I think there was a lot of discussion about the topic of Red Mercury way back in the first thread somewhere. I know I read about it a lot somewhere.

[Revel]

And BTW...That article is about the creepiest article I have read on these threads.

[MamaDearest]

I'll bet the amount of money wired back to Mexico daily is phenomenally large, Guaranteed Western Union profit just from money going south every single day. Can you even imagine the cash transfers from cities like Phoenix, Houston, LA? Yup, you have the right idea, laser beams with stun gun capability, bazookas, torpedos....whatever it takes to seal the border.

[FairOpinion]

If there is any truth to it, "be afraid, be very afraid".

Actually I only mean this as a figure of speech, I don't believe in running around terrified, but we can only imagine the difficulty of the intel services, law enforcement, and decision makers. If they don't err on the side of caution, which may seem they are being overly cautious, when nothing happens, the devastation of a missed attack could be unimaginable.

My personal assessment is that I don't know whether such a thing as red mercury exists or doesn't, but I really do believe that the terrorists and some of the rogue nations do have capabilities, to which the term WMD doesn't even do justice.

[Cindy]

Thanks Knak.

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http://www.site4free.biz/image222/index.htm

[FairOpinion]

Here is another article -- an interview with a nuclear scientist -- it underlines and adds credibility to the previous article, in why the Iraq invasion was indeed urgent. It's an article from 1997!

http://www.manuelsweb.com/sam_cohen.htm

Bomb inventor says U.S. defenses suffer because of politics

06/15/97
By Christopher Ruddy

FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Cohen is the physicist who invented the neutron bomb, the one that kills people but leaves things like tanks and buildings intact. Plans to deploy his creations in Europe during the '70s and '80s awakened the "peace movement" across that continent, stopping its deployment.


Other nation's haven't been afflicted by the U.S. blindness regarding neutron bombs. According to Cohen:

Evidence exists that China has neutron bombs stockpiled, and that the United States gave the Chinese the technology to build them.

Russia has a large quantity of such weapons, as well as the world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons.


Most frightening for Cohen is the relative ease by which neutron bombs can be created with a substance called red mercury. Red mercury is a compound containing mercury that has undergone massive irradiation. When exploded, it creates tremendous heat and pressure - the same type needed to trigger a fusion device such as a mini-neutron bomb.

Before, an obstacle to creating a nuclear bomb was the need for plutonium, which when exploded could create a fusion reaction in hydrogen atoms. But red mercury has changed that. The cheap substance has been produced in Russia, Cohen said, and shipped on the black market throughout the world.

Cohen said that when U.N. inspectors went to Iraq to examine the Iraqis' nuclear weapons capabilities, the U.N. team found documents showing that they had purchased quantities of red mercury. The material means a neutron bomb can be built "the size of baseball" but able to kill everyone within several square blocks.

The public isn't being warned about this development because the politicians have little desire to combat the menace or to confront nations like Iraq, Iran and Libya that likely would use such weapons, Cohen said.

[Domestic Church]

Al Khadjai (#48 in the deck) has surrendered:

http://www.freeRepublic.com/focus/f-news/1074679/posts