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"Now, similar movement is fixed everywhere, including in the zone of silos, which have missiles with an estimated range of up to 6,000 kilometres, capable to reach the U.S. territory."

This does NOT sound good!!!!
Supposedly the web-bots are "predicting" something major Sept 27-28--wonder if it could refer to NK firing a missile or testing a nuke, rather than the terrorism we all worry about here.

From- Council on Foreign Relations fact sheet on Nuclear Terrorism: (old)(2001)

"Some experts also worry about Pakistan, a relatively recent nuclear power and now a key coalition member in the war on terrorism with untested security systems, dozens of nuclear weapons, and many Islamist militants who sympathize with Osama bin Laden. The United States recently offered to help Pakistan improve its nuclear security measures. Pakistan reportedly began quietly accepting American help in early November 2001.

Have any Russian nuclear weapons gone missing?

There have been no confirmed reports of missing or stolen former Soviet nuclear weapons. Still, there is ample evidence of a significant black market in nuclear materials.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reported 175 nuclear smuggling incidents since 1993, 18 of which involved highly enriched uranium, the key ingredient in an atomic bomb and the most dangerous product on the nuclear black market.

Have terrorist organizations ever tried to obtain Russian nuclear weapons?

Yes. Russian authorities say that in the past three years alone, they have broken up hundreds of nuclear-material smuggling deals.

In October 2001, shortly after the World Trade Center attacks, a Russian nuclear official reported having foiled two separate incidents over the previous eight months in which terrorists had “staked out” a secret weapons storage site.

In the 1990s, U.S. authorities discovered several al-Qaeda plots to obtain nuclear materials, and CIA Director George Tenet recently told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that Osama bin Laden had sought to “acquire or develop a nuclear device.”

Could terrorists steal a Russian nuclear weapon?

It’s hard to say. Russian authorities say their nuclear weapons are under “safe and reliable” protection against a wide range of terrorist attacks.

But Western analysts still worry that Russian security may be lax. And other Russian nuclear materials are less well-protected, including storage sites for an estimated 1,100 metric tons of highly enriched uranium and 160 metric tons of plutonium.

"This does NOT sound good!!!! Supposedly the web-bots are "predicting" something major Sept 27-28--wonder if it could refer to NK firing a missile or testing a nuke, rather than the terrorism we all worry about here."

The "event" in North Korea happened late on September 8th/early on the 9th local time - - only hours before the release of the Zawahiri tape, which has preceded an actual or attempted terror event every single time for the past seven years.

If a WMD event occurs in the US, Japan could be attacked simultaneously (or vice versa). On 9/11 some of our pilots thought we were under missile attack, not a terrorist attack. Next time, it might be *both*.

The axis of evil is comprised of both the terrorists and the states that gave them life. When one of the last remaining state sponsors of terror, the only one with confirmed nuclear weapons, experiences an "event" detected internationally, resulting in unprecedented missile-related activity and military movements nationwide, which is followed hours later by a threat from the operational leader of al Qaeda - - then it is time to "wake up".

"Welcome to the desert of the real"

Morpheus in "The Matrix" (1999)

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20040927wo41.htm

N. Korea army unusually active since explosion

Yomiuri Shimbun

North Korean army units have been unusually active since earlier this month, when a large explosion was observed in the northern part of the country, government sources said. The government, which suspects North Korea may be preparing to launch a Rodong ballistic missile, believes the military maneuvers and the explosion may be linked, and has started gathering intelligence on the matter, the sources said. According to the sources, spy satellite imagery taken earlier this month revealed that North Korean military units were assembling at several sites, including a ballistic missile base in the east of the country. The moves were not initially considered significant, but later expanded from the eastern part of the country to 10 sites nationwide. Communications with the Rodong missile base in Shinori, north of Pyongyang, also were intercepted. The sources said the communication appeared to be some form of command.