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Netanyahu did not elaborate on his reference to nuclear suitcases. DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources link it to a shipment of 6-10 “nuclear suitcases” that were part of an illegal Ukraine delivery to Iran in 2003 or 2004 of half a dozen nuclear-capable X-55 cruise missiles (NATO codenamed AS-15) whose 2000-km range covers every part of Israel.

A UNITED State Federal judge ordered the detention on Monday of an Ethiopian-born U.S. citizen who was arrested at Detroit's airport last week for carrying nearly $79,000 in cash and articles on suitcase bombs and the Sept. 11 attacks. Sisayehiticha Dinssa, 34, was arrested on Nov. 14 on arrival in Detroit after a dog smelled narcotics on his cash, according to federal prosecutors who had appealed a decision for him to be released on bond as a threat and a flight risk. Dinssa is charged with failing to declare he was bringing more than $10,000 into the United States, a...

The failure of two suitcase bombs to explode on separate German trains this week most likely prevented Germany from joining the ranks of London and Madrid on the list horrific commuter bombings. The first bomb was discovered on Monday on a 120-passenger regional train that ran between Aachen and Hamm, cities located in the north-western German state of North Rhineland-Westphalia. A conductor discovered a suitcase in an empty passenger section at the Hamm end of the run and sent it to the Dortmund train station because there was no lost and found office in Hamm. In Dortmund, railway employees opened...

Suitcase bomb found in German train 1 August 2006 DORTMUND, GERMANY - A bomb has been found aboard a German train, with prosecutors saying Tuesday, the morning after it was discovered, that it had been powerful enough to maim or even kill. Bomb-disposal specialists disabled the device Monday evening in the main railway station in the western German city of Dortmund. "The contents were capable of severely injuring or even killing people," said prosecutor Ina Holznagel. The device included a canister of propane gas, a timer and wires.

The timing couldn't be worse. With clear evidence that al Qaida plans for the next 9/11 attack on America are well underway, media hysteria over the Iraqi prison abuse scandal has the U.S. intelligence establishment on the ropes over its interrogation tactics. As a result, military and CIA interrogators whose responsibility it is to with extract information from terrorist suspects have been warned to be on their best behavior. And that means they won't be doing anything that could be remotely interpreted as bringing undue pressure on the bad guys to talk. Meanwhile, just last month the FBI issued frightening...

Old weapons, new terror worries Russian and US experts meet this month to assess terror tactics, from hacking into systems to seizing a weapon. By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor MOSCOW – Imagine this scenario: Computer hackers working for Al Qaeda break into Russia's nuclear weapons network, and "spoof" the system into believing it is under attack, setting off a chain reaction, and a real nuclear counterattack. Another doomsday possibility made headlines when Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's No. 2, was quoted last month boasting that Al Qaeda had already acquired "some suitcase bombs" -...