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Posted on 09/12/2006 4:13:48 PM PDT by Fithal the Wise
Dubai, 12 Sept. (AKI) - Osama bin Laden is planning to carry out new, more destructive attacks inside the United States, and there is someone working on this terror plot currently in the US, according to Hamid Mir, the famed Pakistani journalist who obtained the only post-9/11 interviews with Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri. In an interview quoted on the website of the al-Arabiya television network, Mir spoke about his last trip to Afghanistan and his meeting with al-Qaeda members and Taliban leaders.
In his interview with Al.Arabiya.net, Mir said that the al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters referred to attacks targeting the US-led coalition forces during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which begins on 24 September, and that the al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden was in "good" health during a meeting he had recently with the Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar.
Mir also said that bin Laden has assigned a man named Adnan Al-Shukri Juma to carry out a new attack within the US which is intended to be larger than the 11 September, 2001 attacks. According to Mir, Adnan Jumaa has smuggled explosives and nuclear materials into the US through the Mexican border over the last two years and is hiding somewhere in America where the FBI has not been able to locate him.
The Pakistani journalist also gave a brief background on Adnan Jumaa. Born in Saudi Arabia, he moved to the US where he met a group of a Al-Qaeda members in the Al-Farouq mosque in New York in 2000. He then traveled to an Arab state and from there to Pakistan then Afghanistan. He left there two years ago and since then has smuggled nuclear material from Mexico to the US. Jumaa has earned the nickname "Al-Qaeda nuclear whizz" and is tagged to play the same role in a future attack as Mohammed Atta did in the 9/11 attacks.
In March 2003 the FBI announced that it was seeking a link between Adnan and others accused of terroris, saying Adnan Jumaa "or maybe one of his several nicknames" had appeared in intelligence information gathered after the arrest of Khalid Sheik Mohammad.
Western media had reported in earlier times that Adnan Jumaa was a Saudi pilot, but the Saudi Ministry of Interior security spokesman lieutanent Mansour Al-Turki said in a statement to Al-Watan newspaper two months ago that Adnan Jumaa is not a Saudi citizen, he was living in the kingdom until he was eleven years old and left along with his parents, who are not Saudis, twenty years ago.
Adnan Al-Shukri's name has been mentioned in many Western media reports claiming that Al-Qaeda has acquired nuclear technology. The American writer, Paul Williams, in his book " The Al-Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime, and the Coming Apocalypse", says he was among a number of Al-Qaeda members trained for the nuclear technology.
On another issue, Hamid Mir spoke to Alarabiya.net of his last trip to Afghanistan and his meeting with a leader of Taliban named "Khaibar" in Zabul who claimed that 300 Taliban suicide bombers had managed to sneak into Kabul and Jalalabad to carry out attacks against coalition troops during Ramadan.
Mir alleges that there was a meeting between Bin Laden and Mullah Omar several few weeks ago in the mountain area of Zabul where they planned more attacks, "I received this piece of information from one of the Taliban leaders who attended the meeting himself and I met him recently in Afghanistan" Mir said. "He told me that this was the second meeting between the two men since last year and that Bin Laden's health seemed good while he was eating with Mullah Mohammad Omar.
The Pakistani journalist expressed his surprise of the changing situation in Afghanistan; saying that the Taliban had come back to rule some areas and spread their special courts, their special administrations, nothing that even some police officials follow their orders.
I read the information you both posted. I'm not so ready to dismiss this threat offhand. Thanks especially, Tom Guy, for reposting this guy's picture.
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Some kind of neutron scaner might detect it, but that assumes it sn't in a backpack being carried across the desert of Arizona, the mountains Montana or strapped to the bottom or inside the keel of a yacht coming to the US from overseas.
The main thing protecting us from a fissile attack is:
a) the stuff is unbelievably expensive to produce and regarded as highly dangerous and in need of high security by every state that's ever produced it;
b) I suspect that each manufacturing process and site probably possesses a chemical and/or isotope signature that identifies its provenance, and any country giving al Queda it's own fissile material would probbaly have a future so bright they'd need lead sunglasses;
c) our enemies are dumber than cockroach droppings;
d) there are many Muslims who are also appalled by these guys but who are intimidated by extremists in their own communities (or fear being labeled collaborators). Nevertheless, they seem to rat these guys out fairly regularly.
If we alow the Iranians to get the bomb, however, all bets are off-- not simply because they are kooks but also because their acquisition of nuclear weapons will drive an arms race with the Sunni Arab states.
Then every nut-job dictator, oil sheik, and Islamofascist kook in the Middle East will have nukes.
Why no one else seems to see this is beyond me: it's the single most convincing reason for stopping Iran.
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I think we all know that the possibility of them building a nuclear device is almost null. Purchasing one is their only option. We have to give some credit... they must watch a lot of McGuyver... old shells and cell phones, etc...They can do a lot of damage with crap dug out of Fred Sanford’s garage.
But building a nuclear bomb is... lets say pretty dang hard. Building a proper trigger? That's off the scale for these guys.
The best they can hope for is conventional explosives to spread contamination unless someone has sold them a device. I'm not so sure all of them put together have enough cash and resources to pull that off without someone giving them up.
I thought the cores emitted some type of radiation signature that was detectable.
While the liklihood that they can build a 'dial-a-yield' bomb or a neutron weapon is probably close to zero, I suspect their ability (particularly if a detailed plan is provided) to build a 1945 style weapon is probably fairly good, excpt for getting the material.
The continuous disruption of their financial network and lack of a safe-haven are important here to deny them the time and money to work such WMD projects. But all it will take is a Dem win to go back to the ostrich 'law enforcement' model and more Clintonian posturing.
In that case, a large number of Americans will die.
In fact the first bomb dropped on Japan was of extraordinarily simple design.
Little more than a rod of enriched uranium that plunged into a hole in a spherical blob of uranium that wasn't, by itself, enough to reach critical mass.
But the combined mass of the unit was critical. Didn't require any fancy triggers, etc. A kid who did good in shop class in high school could build it. As long as he took measures to make sure he didn't poison himself or blow himself to bits trying.
I don't think it's unreasonable to listen to someone even if he/she points out that we have a border security problem. Allahpundit is worth a read, even when we disagree.
I agree, I'm not ready to dismiss the leads either.
Attacking US at a time when Muslims traditionally gather in large crowds. Not a clever strategy, IMHO.
IIRC plutonium emits alpha particles.
They are easily insulated with minimal shielding. Although plutonium is considered extremely poisonous.
I don't discount the article out of hand.
Little more than a rod of enriched uranium that plunged into a hole in a spherical blob of uranium that wasn't, by itself, enough to reach critical mass.
But the combined mass of the unit was critical. Didn't require any fancy triggers, etc. A kid who did good in shop class in high school could build it. As long as he took measures to make sure he didn't poison himself or blow himself to bits trying.
You're thinking of Little Boy...it was 10 feet long, 28 inches in diameter, and weighed 4 1/2 tons...not something you could easily smuggle into the United States. It was an effective, but unsafe design, and Little Boy was the only one of it's type ever used.
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