Posted on 11/10/2001 10:07:57 AM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
Al-Qaeda nukes may have reached US shores
UNGA session possible terror target
Naveed Miraj
Updated on 11/10/2001 11:33:53 AM
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani and American investigators converge that Osama bin Ladens Al Qaeda network may have successfully transported several nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons of mass destruction to the United States, The Frontier Post learnt Friday.
Already on high alert, United States security officials are having sleepless nights that Al Qaeda can strike in New York again on the occasion of United Nations General Assembly session.
Investigators from Pakistans ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) and American FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) and CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) are jointly probing into the possibilities of Al Qaeda possessing nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
They have reached a conclusion that at least two briefcase nuclear weapons may have reached the US shores, sources close to these investigators revealed to this scribe.
The investigators have been able to identify at least one briefcase weapon acquired by Al Qaeda from Central Asian rogue groups.
The weapon identified is small 8-kilogram device that carries at least 2 kg of fissionable plutonium and uranium.
The device, of Russian make, carries a serial number 9999 and manufacturing date October 1988.
The design of the device is simple.
The radioactive materials consist of Uranium and Plutonium both kept in separate compartments.
At the top of the two compartments is placed the charging mechanism.
The charging mechanism can be activated through a timer or even through a cell phone command.
Besides nuclear devices, a chemical and a biological weapon have also been identified to be in the hands of Al Qaeda activists.
They are said to be in possession of at least 70 capsules, also of Russian origin, containing a very lethal biological agent.
Broken in a crowded place, this capsule can cause deaths on a huge scale.
It melts human body meat to the bone.
Another chemical agent in the hands of Al Qaeda operators is called Vipera Lebentina Venema.
A derivative of snake poisons, this venom developed in USSR attacks through skin.
Most probable way of using this agent is through mail as with Anthrax.
US security agencies are already on high alert and realise that Al Qaeda can strike in New York again on the occasion of UN General Assembly.
Analysis of the recent statements released by Osama bin Laden carried out by US agencies has shown that the terrorist network can pick up an important occasion like the UN General Assembly session to retaliate against US strikes on Afghanistan.
Anyone know this Frontier Post?
Is it reliable?
What REALLY sounds nasty is that Bill Clinton thinks we deserve to get bombed for stuff someone else did 100 years ago. We know who the enemy is, it is just a question of punishing them.
I think this is utter, complete BS. Read "The Making of the Atom Bomb" and other common sources. In particular, pay attention to how difficult controlled implosions were to acheive.
Uranium or Plutonium. Can't make up their mind?
carries a serial number 9999
Umm, yeah, sure.
You understand incorrectly. Either can be used in a fission device. The first atomic bomb, the Trinity device, was a plutonium fission device. Of the next two, used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, one was a uranium bomb, the other a plutonium one. In a thermonuclear, that is fusion, bomb, a fission bomb is the trigger for the fusion bomb, and could be of either type, but I think most are plutonium. A three stage device may have a non fisionable uranium outerlayer, that is converted to a fissionable material by the actions of the neutrons from the fusion stage. The latter is nasty, dirty, very powerfull, and probably way too big for a suitcase device.
However use of both plutonium and uranium in a single device, other than a 3 stage one, doesn't seem likely, but them I'm no expert, and if I was, I wouldn't be able to tell you anyway.
If nothing else gave it away as a goofball piece, this surely did. Sounds like something out of the e-mail urban legend bin.
It's a Pakistani site(.pk), 'nuff said.
If Al-Qaeda has nukes, it figures that they would already be over here, since there is considerable evidence that the terrorist strikes against the Trade Towers culminated five or ten years of planning. And there's no reason to think they don't, considering the number of warheads around when the Soviet Union collapsed, and the huge amounts of money Bin Ladin has to buy these things.
It would make me feel better if the FBI, CIA, and INS hadn't been severely compromised during the clinton years, loaded down at the top levels with ignorant, corrupt, and incompetent people. They are STILL fiddling around trying to figure a way to blame the anthrax attacks on the Right-to-Life movement, following their little domestic agendas, while our country could be on the verge of catastrophe.
But a gun type device is relatively easy, which separate compartments sounds kinda, sorta like. Still you are probably right, complete BS. The dual material types just doesn't sit right..Unless one of them is the real bomb, and the other is radioactive stuff to get spread around, but that doesn't seem likely either.
Broken in a crowded place, this capsule can cause deaths on a huge scale.
It melts human body meat to the bone.
Not that I don't doubt this article (ok, I totally doubt it), but what exactly would this be?
OTOH, a common description of EBOLA is that it dissolves human tissue. Maybe not technically accurate, but certainly descriptive.
EXCELLENT POINT The presence of the huge quantity of Clintonian liberal fools in key national security positions at this time is an extreme grave national security threat. Not only do these morons limit the effectiveness of the agencies we ALL depend upon, but since Bush hasn't done much to 'clean house', the positions they fill are not even accessable to the 'voice of reason'.
Human body meat?!?!??? Hey Wait Just A DARN Minute!!!!! That's the kind I have!!!!!! ROFL
Yes I believe you're right. A sentence like that isn't exactly the hallmark of serious reporting, is it?
I believe that the bomb dropped on Nagasaki was a plutonium fission device. The Hiroshima bomb was uranium.
U235 emits gamma rays at .185 and .204 MeV. Pu239 emits gamma at a whole series of energies from .039 to .77 MeV.
In addition to this, spontaneuos decay of subcritical fuels assemblies make such a device thermally HOT to handle.
I would be more concerned with a cargo container than a suitcase. Yes, we can make tactical warheads in the kiloton range fit in an artillery projectile, BUT:
1: We have been researching these warheads with nearly unlimited resources for fifty+ Years.
2: Realistically we can survive fifty hits with these..we are a BIG country. And we have one warhead for every WTC Victim!
And then we would have a hunting license, the moral authority to use it, and our revenge would be fierce and absolutely total.
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