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"HAVE UKRAINIAN TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS
LEAKED TO AL-QA'IDAH?

Al-Hayat, London, UK in Arabic 8 Feb 04
BBC Monitoring Service, UK, in English, Feb 08, 2004

Sources close to the Al-Qa'idah organization revealed yesterday that Usamah
Bin-Ladin's organization acquired tactical nuclear weapons from Ukraine
after Ukrainian scientists visited Kandahar (south of Afghanistan), the
stronghold of the Taleban movement, in 1998 and met senior Al-Qa'idah
leaders.

The sources added that the visit resulted in a deal by which the
organization bought suitcases containing these weapons, which were then
placed in "safe places".

Several reports had talked about the disappearance of more than 70 nuclear
warheads after the former Soviet Union's collapse.

The same sources asserted that the organization "will not use these weapons
in any confrontation with the US forces except in two cases: The first
inside the United States because it knows the extent of the massive damages
that their use in any Arab or Muslim country might cause and the second in
case the organization suffers a crushing blow that leaves it no room for
manoeuvre or survival, such as the use of the nuclear or chemical weapon
against the organization's fighters."

Identical US and Pakistani sources meanwhile asserted yesterday that the two
countries are working strenuously to prevent nuclear technology from
reaching Al-Qa'idah. While observers of this file rule out Al-Qa'idah as one
of the beneficiaries from the leakage of Pakistan's nuclear technology whose
details were revealed recently, they do not however rule out the possibility
of nuclear leakage in view of the difficult economic conditions in the
nuclear central Asian countries. (END) (ARTUIS)

70 missing nukes and the threat to use them in American cities may explain some of the waffling by Bush on the "War with Terror". Israel is being forced to surrender, and the Pali's are offering nothing publicly in return. It is pretty clear that America is forcing Israel to give the cities in Gaza to the Palis, is this a Blackmail payment to Al Queda?