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BBC News - UK
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Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
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Hezbollah shoots down Israeli helicopter
Houston Chronicle - United States
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ABC News - USA
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Hezbollah Leader a Hero to Many Arabs
Town Hall - Washington,DC,USA
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Hezbollah gains as Lebanon's leaders struggle
Boston Globe - United States
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Hezbollah gaining strength where democracy once dwelt
Chicago Tribune - United States
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Hezbollah rockets kills elderly man
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
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Carr says nuclear terror attack threat is real
Email Print Normal font Large font Brendan Nicholson
August 14, 2006
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AdvertisementTHE prospect of terrorists carrying a nuclear bomb in a suitcase or a shipping container and detonating it in a major city is the world's ultimate nightmare, says former NSW premier Bob Carr.
"I think the prospect of suicidal terrorists being equipped with atomic weapons is very real," Mr Carr said yesterday.
Last night the Federal Government and terrorism specialists agreed that nuclear terrorism was a real threat.
Mr Carr said such a bomb could originate in the countries that made up the former USSR or come from Pakistan.
"All this suggests that the day will come when someone out of a terrorist organisation gets a bomb and puts it in a container and the bomb is detonated in the heart of a Western city," he said.
"If Iran went really bad, would Iran equip Hezbollah with what it needs for globalised terrorism? Not just lobbing missiles over the border of Lebanon but getting into a Western city … with a nuclear bomb?
"That's the nightmare that haunts our civilisation."
A spokesman for Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said Mr Carr was only repeating what authorities had said many times, that the prospect of an attack was real. "It is on that basis that Australia is preparing itself to meet the threat of terrorism," he said.
Terrorism specialist Clive Williams said he believed that those nations with nuclear weapons kept tight control of them, but that could change if, say, a different government in Pakistan, for ideological reasons, handed over nuclear weapons to a third party.
Similarly, the mafia was very strong in the Ukraine and might ultimately be able to buy a weapon there. But the mafia was making so much money from its other ventures that it was unlikely to jeopardise its position.
In September 1997, former Russian national security adviser Aleksandr Lebed claimed that the Russian military had lost track of more than 100 suitcase-sized nuclear bombs that had been designed for use by the Soviet special forces.
The US State Department said later it had been assured by Russian authorities that all nuclear weapons were accounted for and those described by Mr Lebed did not exist.
Professor Williams said that if al-Qaeda had obtained such a bomb it would almost certainly have used it by now.
He said al-Qaeda was trying to obtain highly enriched uranium to make its own bomb.
The material was very difficult to get hold of, he said, and it would take about 15 kilograms to build a bomb the size of the one that devastated Hiroshima.
Hypothetically, terrorists would smuggle the bomb components into a city such as New York, hire an apartment, build the bomb inside it and then detonate it there.
Another possibility was that terrorists could wrap radiological waste from a hospital around conventional explosive compounds to make a "dirty bomb", which would widely scatter radioactive material.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/carr-says-nuclear-terror-attack-threat-is-real/2006/08/13/1155407670361.html