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I think, just by tracing the Moscow Cesium 137 story that he mentioned, that he's a little prone to overstatement. I'll give you an example.

The Chechens left a Cesium137 cannister buried in a park, and then tipped off the media that it was there. This was done to demonstrate their capability, to get Moscow's attention that they were serious.

This author: In 1995, the Chechens under Com. Shamail Basayev planted a radiological bomb in Izmailovsky Park near Moscow . The bomb was made of cesium-137, and, if detonated, would have killed thousands of Russians. This incident represented the first case of a nuke to be deployed as a weapon of terror.

I found no evidence that there was a detonation mechanism. (There may have been, but my quick fact check didn't find one.) What I found was that it was just a component from a medical machine of some kind- cancer therapy perhaps?

So, yes, you too can be a researcher!! < /game show announcer> We all can, and in fact there are some really good ones on FR- much better than me. We ping each other from time to time to stuff like this.

So, for the most part, I think this is pretty believable. You can also trace the quotes from Kerry, Bush, Cheney, Goss, and many others who are aware of the possibility of this happening. Those are real quotes.

"just a component from a medical machine of some kind- cancer therapy perhaps"

I think that this stuff is form a power pack for a remote communication beacon or something like that. I remember reading that the Soviets had a bunch of these spread all over Siberia -- just sitting out in the open for anyone to break into and steal.

Past threads on this subject pretty much discount Williams as a wack job. But, what he says is consistent with what know credible sources are saying. The idea that AQ already has seven bombs in the county he claims is from interrogation that capture AQ chief. How Williams got that information is vague. No one else has that leak, if it is true.

On the other hand, the element of surprise is a basic tactic of war. Our country could be destroyed with smuggled nukes.