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I don't know about this "Debka" outfit. Some like it some say it's nothing but rumors.
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In a special investigation,DEBKA-Net-Weekly learned from well-placed intelligence sources that the millionaire terror master did procure a supply of uranium-235 six months before his Al Qaeda suicides carried out their September 11 strikes in America. The uranium was delivered following an extraordinary deal between the most wanted terrorist in the world and one of the world's most dangerous mobsters, a shadowy Ukrainian-born Jew called Semion Mogilevich, who rules over an arms-trafficking, money-laundering, drug-running, prostitution and graft empire.

Sources who spoke to DEBKA-Net-Weekly on condition of anonymity report that for a princely sum estimated at US$40 - 75 million, Bin Laden bought between 12 and 15 kilos of uranium-235, all of which came from Russia or some Central Asian Muslim republic.

If this is true, the master terrorist has enough fissionable material to build between 3 and 5 nuclear devices.

Tuesday October 16, 6:03 PM

'Al Qaida tried to buy nuclear material from Russian mafia'

By Arun Mohanty, Indo-Asian News Service

Moscow, Oct 16 (IANS) Terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden's group Al Qaida has tried to buy nuclear material through the Russian mafia, reports here said.

Al Qaida had made several attempts to procure nuclear material for military purpose from Russian mafia, Russian news agency Interfax reports.

For this purpose bin Laden had reportedly established contacts with representatives of Russian organised criminal gangs in Germany, Belarus and Russia.

"A German state-run TV company will reveal this in its popular evening programme 'Report,'" Interfax said quoting the news agency EFE.

American and European specialists are trying to trace contacts made by Al Qaida financial director Makhmud Salim in this connection.

Salim has been in a German prison since 1998.

Al Qaida member Jamal Ahmed Fadl had also confirmed that the group was trying to buy nuclear material from the Russian mafia early this year.

Fadl reportedly said he, on bin Laden's behest, had established contact with the representatives of Russian organised crime for procuring nuclear material.

In the chaotic years that followed Soviet collapse, Russian mafia, which has its tentacles in different industrial branches, was reported to have control over many nuclear installations

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