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Russian Mafia – Terrorist Groups – Nuclear Technology. An eventual nuclear attack is likely.
July 23 2005
According to ex-FBI investigator Paul Williams in an upcoming book, ‘The Next 9-11, America’s Hiroshima’ there exists between 10-70 nuclear tactical weapons already situated in the US. Williams is an investigative reporter and international crime consultant, who believes, with no nuanced doubts, that terrorist networks have tactical nuclear capabilities on North American soil. In fact, Bin Laden, and US based Islamic Imam’s, have made numerous public statements about a nuclear attack on the US. William’s believes that such public messages are valid and he focuses on Bin Laden’s assertion that Al Qaeda will destroy, in one day, 7 US cities in a nuclear holocaust that would dwarf the 100.000 civilian’s killed in Hiroshima. Many such terrorist messages have stated the same.
Abu Ghaith, al-Qaeda's top spokesperson said in 2003 that Islam had the right to use chemical and biological weapons since the USA has used them. According to Ghaith Al Qaeda will kill four million Americans including one million children; and leave eight million homeless; and cripple hundreds of thousands of Americans. It is unclear whether Ghaith meant this would be done all in one attack or over time. In any event the total carnage on US soil would supposedly total the number of Muslims the US has killed or maimed. Considering that the US has fought for Islamic causes since 1980, and even in present day Iraq has certainly saved from the fascist regime of Hussein, 100.000 children and hundred’s of thousands of other Muslims, it is unclear exactly how Al Qaeda arrives at these figures.
Indeed Shaykh Hisham Kabbani, founder of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, said in 1999 to the State Department that a coalition of terrorist organizations including Osama Bin Laden had received over 20 "suitcase-sized" nuclear weapons from criminals in the former Soviet Union. He was warning them about the growth of Islamic radicalism in Muslim mosques and organizations. In fact in November of 2001, Osama bin Laden told Hamid Mir, a Pakistani journalist that he possessed nuclear weapons claiming, "They're not difficult to obtain if you have contacts in Russia with other Islamist groups. They are available for $10 million and $20 million." He said they were a deterrent force, to be used in retaliation. It could be bravado but the seriousness of Bin Laden’s threat, after 9-11, 3-11, and 7-7, cannot be easily dismissed.
Many sources and reports state that a nuclear attack in the US and in other Western nations is just a matter of time. The Washington Post ran a survey in June of ’05 asking experts about the chance of a nuclear terrorist attack on the Western nations. According to this survey many believe that the world faces an estimated 50% chance of a nuclear, biological, chemical or radiological attack over the next five years. This survey also estimated the risk of attack by weapons of mass destruction at as high as 70% over the coming decade. Such attitudes are backed up by various investigations and committees including the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s determination that a nuclear attack is very likely within a decade.
According to Williams, the US-SFRC, and many others, it is common knowledge that terrorist groups have already acquired nuclear material and weapons – mostly from ex-Soviet sources. Stanislav Lunev, the highest-ranking defector from Russia's GRU intelligence service has testified that al-Qaeda possesses nuclear weapons from the Soviet arsenal. "They [Al-Qaeda] hatched their plan over years and trained well for it. They used 'cheap' weapons not because they did not have 'expensive' weapons of mass destruction; all evidence indicates they have such weapons." He has said that the Israeli Mossad concluded in the 1990s that Bin Laden had obtained nuclear warheads, artillery shells, and torpedoes from the former Soviet Union.
Other sources on the nuclear terrorist threat abound. On a Google search one can find many credible references. For instance The London Times reported, in October 1998, that Bin Laden had purchased nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union, as did the London-based paper, Al-Hayat. Al-Watan al-Arabi, Al-Quds al-Arabi, Al-Wasat, Al-Majalllah, Izvestiya (Russia), Yossef Bodansky (former director of the US Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare), have all described virtually the same account: Al-Qaeda has purchased up to 20 nuclear weapons through the Chechens and Russian Mafia from the former Soviet Union, most reports saying it was done for around $30 million and two tons of opium (worth at least $700 million if sold in the West.
From Geostrategy-Direct.com, a weekly intelligence digest edited by Bill Gertz of the Washington Times and Robert Morton of WorldTribune.com there is additional confirmation that Al-Qaeda obtained nuclear weapons through Chechen sources. The publication reported on July 28, 2001 that their sources confirmed Al-Qaeda had nuclear weapons, but the estimated number varied between intelligence services. Russian intelligence believes they obtained "a handful," while the Arabs (specifically the Saudis), indicated it could be 20 or more. WorldTribune.com published a similar report back on August 9, 1999.
There appears to plenty of sources to corroborate that a nuclear terrorist attack is only a matter of time.
So the West faces a true nuclear threat. These nuclear devices are not missiles or large bombs, but tactical devices that can fit into a large backpack or suitcase. The devices that are supposedly in the US now were smuggled across the Mexican border. One would assume that other nations also face the same risk, and most likely have tactical nuclear weapons in the hands of terrorists on their soil. However, it is unclear why, if the devices exist in the US or elsewhere, an attack has not already been carried out. Perhaps the technology is too complex and more training on how to set up and detonate tactical nuclear weapons is necessary. Maybe the devices are not in place in the areas to be attacked. Perhaps only a few devices are in place awaiting the set up of the rest. No one is sure.
That a nuclear attack is imminent against the US or the West by terrorist groups is unclear. But the intention, and organization of such an attack is obvious and the threat is pronounced. Bush was right when he declared the nuclear terrorism is the gravest danger to the West. It is less clear how well we are doing to combat such a threat. This story should be front page news but incredibly, few people are serious about reporting it. The devastation by a nuclear attack upon the US or any other nation state is almost beyond reckoning. Guarding against such an outcome must be a top priority of all Western nations.
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1. Worldnetdaily.com, Dec. 14 2002 reported that London Sunday Express claimed the two leaders were informed that Bin Laden's organization
had purchased approximately 20 nuclear weapons from the ex-KGB.
2. Fox News, August 2, 2002.
3. Newsmax.com, October 16, 2001.
4. Newsmax.com, September 25, 2001, "Shays Warns of Suitcase Nuke Terror Threat."
5. Newsmax.com, March 5, 2002.6. Boston Globe, December 2, 2002, David Filipov.
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