I may outline a scenario of a preemptive strike by Iran. I'll need to do some research first. TM exclusive.
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Seattle vulnerable to nuclear terrorism
GRAHAM ALLISON
GUEST COLUMNIST
Seattle was baptized into the era of terrorism in December 1999 when a customs agent became suspicious of a driver disembarking from a ferry at Port Angeles. Her gut reaction proved correct: Ahmed Ressam was smuggling more than 100 pounds of explosives for al-Qaida's millennium plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport.
Seattle moved into the center of the cross hairs when the mastermind of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, put the Northwest's tallest building on his top 10 target list. Later, U.S. forces found photos of the Space Needle in an al-Qaida hideout in Afghanistan.
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Osama bin Laden has challenged the greater al-Qaida movement to trump 9/11. The list of terrorist actions reaching that bar is short. A clue to the preferred method comes from bin Laden: He declared obtaining nuclear weapons "a religious duty."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/191626_nuclear21.html
Waiting patiently - and certain it will be relevant and realistic.