Posted on 06/18/2002 12:59:31 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:07:53 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
OSCOW - The US-Russian arms treaty signed in Moscow last month did nothing to eliminate the greatest fear in an age of terror: that one of Russia's thousands of tactical nuclear devices left over from the Cold War could fall into the wrong hands.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
New Year sees escalation of fighting in Chechnya "on the sixth day of an offensive by Russia"reply #2 AND"You will know Shamil Basayev is on his way to Moscow to open "Allah's Suitcase" and topple the ex-KGB thug when you begin to see the attacks on the rail convoys. These disruptions of the Russian logistical tail are the classic signature attacks of the greatest fighter on the face of this earth."
Not to mention those that are "missing"
http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2001/9/25/111557
Here are the links for your URLs…thanks, appreciate it.Col. Lunev Tells CBS of Nuclear Threat
Another major threat, are the huge stores of chemical and Boilogical munitions sites also scatterd across the former Soviet Union.
But there is more media and political milage over dash and glory action, rather than quite methodical security operations.
Cheers Tony
Known as the "Allah's Suitcase" scenario, Western intelligence sources have confirmed the delivery of two and probably three of these devices to various Chechen factions in Baku during the early Autumn of 2000. It is believed that Shamil Basayev acquired one (or two) of these weapons while the late Arab fighter Khattab sold a third unit to al-Qaeda representatives early in 2001.
Once reaching Baku, one of these devices is believed to have transited the Caspian Sea toward Iran. The Basayev bomb briefly traced to Ingushetia north of Nazran and south of the Terek River late in 2001.
Basayev has sworn a holy oath to destroy Moscow if Russian forces do not withdraw from Chechnya. He is a cunning and masterful planner that leaves very little to chance. If given the window of opportunity he will detonate a 1.5 kt device in Moscow and attempt to topple the Putin government.
With the capability in hand, the timing is the critical question. Basayev is thought to hope to coordinate his strike with a similar catastrophic detonation in Western Europe. He believes that these events will trigger a general Islamic uprising in the former Soviet states, while collapsing the Russian will to continue a presence in Chechnya.
While many cheered the death of Khattab earlier this year, unfortunately his passing severed the last link to the delivery of the al-Qaeda bomb. London and Langley both quite aware that it is out there and to their credit they are redoubling efforts to thwart this attack.
The oil refinery capacity of Houston still believed to be a primary target.
The good news about Shamil Basayev is that there are one or two Americans he trusts and will listen to. He does not want to destroy Moscow -- he merely wants the Russians out of Chechnya. However he will not be stalled forever by unfulfilled promises.
The bad news about al-Qaeda is that the West has lost the intitative in the War on Terror. This is not a good thing.
The forces of freedom on the move. Europe trembles.
And gee, Mr.D., would you be one of those "enlightened" Americans? What's Baseyov going to do? Hop on his one good foot all the way to Moscow? If he had it, he would have used it. Just like your pet animals bombed apartments, traffic tunnels and a Victory Day parade killing 41 (12 children). You support animals, you have as much credibility as your pathetic charges. And you've been predicting the same tired BS for almost a year now....what's a matter? FSB got your tongue...they sure did Kattab's...with cynide.
Crusaders on the move....Islam shietes itself.
LOL, Stavka!! Good one.
I agree with your Newsmax assessment; what type of man would defect after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and then claim to know all that has happened covertly since?
The information doesn't seem to appear anywhere else, which is a good sign. I'd tend to agree, but I'd be cautious just the same.
...on Y2K...
I blabbed a great deal here on FR, telling people that Y2K would be a very uninteresting event.
I hope you are right about Lunov.
Time has certainly not mellowed your vitriolic vintage. Still trying to peddle those FSB fairy tales of Chechens committing apartment and Victory Day bombings? Everyone knows that Russians kill their own in times of internal dissent. With American shock troops ejecting the poorly trained and ill equipped Russian "army" from Georgia in recent months -- and Shamil Basayev rallying the Chechen military command once more around democratically elected president Aslan Maskhadov -- the Moscow thugs realise once again their shaky grip on power is soon to be loosened forever.
The United States of America now solidly allied with moderate Chechen forces. New American communication equipment has successfully thwarted Russian COIN ops of late -- much to the chagrin of Moscow. President Maskhadov pledging renewed support to American financed pipeline projects in the region as moderate Chechens have agreed in principle to the project once the Russians are run out of the Caucuses.
The Russian Federation a paper tiger. Illegal Russian military sorties into Kosovo, Georgia, and Chechnya will no longer be tolerated by Nationalist backed freedom movements that can up the battle scale to 1.5 kt.
Best Mr Putin recall his flunkies before "Allah's suitcase" ruins his whole weekend.
The forces of freedom on the move. Europe trembles.
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