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Some is probably true. Some definitely not. All of it is ripped off from other people's books/articles from many years ago (most pre-9/11). It is a sloppy cut-and-paste job of the most sensationalistic threats that have made the rounds. The off-the-chart idiocy of "smuggling sleepers" is the most glaring. Not sure if it is Farrah or Williams to blame as nothing is sourced (like they figured all this out themselves).

You cannot "smuggle" sleepers. Sleepers spend years, sometimes decades building legitimate lives for themselves here and stay out of contact from their network until they are activated. (They stay dormant for a decade or more before acting. That is why they are called "sleepers", because they "sleep" until they are "awakened".)

This is probably why the Brits are having problems rounding up suspects - - they may be "sleepers". These guys have been off the grid for years probably - - deliberately not going to suspect mosques, hanging out with jihadis, or doing anything else to bring attention to themselves, especially flying into London recently from Afghanistan or something like that.

Yosef Bodansky wrote on the Chechens and the Zawahiri nuclear connection in the mid-1990s. Vasili Mitrokhin wrote in the late 1990s on the possibility Spetznaz prepositioned nukes in the US. Hamid Mir interviewed UBL and was the source for the 2001 suitcase nuke story. Neither Farrah or Williams sourced any of these stories. Shameless.

Sometimes a poor messenger can discredit an important message.

Another site spread the word a year or so ago that there were 35-40 nukes here. Things like that are so over-the-top ludicrous that folks then throw the baby out with the bathwater (as they seem to do on the other thread).

The idea of smuggling 40 nukes betrays such blithering ignorance of how the world works that it isn't worth discussing. But 3-4 is within the realm of reason . . .

2001 NYC/DC/PA = 4 attacks

http://www.9-11commission.gov/

2003 Riyadh = 4 attacks

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,954825,00.html

2003 Casablanca = 4 attacks

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-05-16-morocco-blasts_x.htm

2004 Madrid = 4 attacks

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040311/323/eo9ct.html

2005 London = 4 attacks (3 underground; 1 bus bomber who did not make it to the target)

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/world/12095833.htm