These reports need to be sent to every college campus that are planning anti-war protests. Launch party this weekend for the 10 year clean up on Clinton's mess of terror he left us with.

Scary stuff bump.

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This early 90's PBS documentary includes previously unknown videos of the clandestine activities of radical Islamic terrorist groups operating in the United States, and featured interviews with moderate Muslims
and federal counter-terrorism officials speaking for the first time about the magnitude of the threat posed by militant Muslim groups on U.S. soil.
This is a must see PBS video that is 1 hour long but plays thru streaming video on RealPlayer
so you don't have to wait for it to load on your computer.
Pay very close attention to the very begining where the CIA spent 3 BILLION dollars to help Afghanistan to defeat Russia during the 80's and how that defeat gave the terrorists the signal that they could beat
any nation, anywhere (watch and listen to the speech where the terrorists start their worldwide campaign) because they had just beaten Russia.
Also watch the documented evidence gathered in the late 80's of the threat to attacks in the US.

FBI Website
Call the FBI Toll Free at 1-866-483-5137
if you see or hear anything that threatens our national security.

This report of bin Laden working on WMD seems plausible to me.

Meanwhile the British Secret Services are searching for the whereabouts of a reported 100 cases of mini-nuclear bombs which went missing from the ex-Soviet Union during Yeltsin’s Presidency. here

France arrested three people last weekend who were in possession of uranium-235, believed to have been obtained from the Russian mafia. here

If we had to go in and identify these targets, this would explain the delay.

Shit. "Russian mafia" again. When those guys killed police officers in Chechnja, they were "Chechen freedom fighters". When they launder ObL's drug money, they are "Russian mafia"...

ObL's friends are mafia OK, just not "Russian" mafia...

BTTT

The testimony referred to above can be found here:

WMD TERRORISM AND USAMA BIN LADEN

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Significant Events Regarding Bin Laden’s Interest in Nuclear Weapons

September 25, 1998

Bin Laden’s aide Mamdouh Mahmud Salim was arrested in Munich, Germany, and charged with acting on behalf of Bin Laden to obtain nuclear materials. In particular, Salim reportedly attempted to obtain highly enriched uranium in the mid-1990s.(6)

August 16, 1998

Israeli military intelligence sources reported that Bin Laden paid over 2 million pounds sterling to a middle-man in Kazakhstan, who promised to deliver a “suitcase” bomb to Bin Laden within two years. In an attempt to prevent Bin Laden from obtaining such weapons from Kazakhstan, Israel sent a cabinet minister to the republic to persuade the Kazakh government to prevent such exchanges from occurring.(7)

October 6, 1998

The Saudi-owned, London-based Arabic newspaper, Al-Hayat, declared that Bin Laden had obtained nuclear weapons.(8)

November 13, 1998

Expanding on information in the October 6, 1998 article in Al-Hayat, the Arabic news magazine Al-Watan Al-Arabi reported that Usama Bin Laden was engaged in a comprehensive plan to acquire nuclear weapons. From information reportedly provided by sources that included the Russian intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), the report stated that Bin Laden had forged links with organized crime members in the former Soviet republics in Central Asia and the Caucasus.(9)

The Al-Watan Al-Arabi article cited one particular meeting in which an agreement was negotiated by some of Bin Laden’s followers and Chechen organized crime figures in Grozny, Chechnya. It was referred to as “the nuclear warheads deal.” Bin Laden reportedly gave the contacts in Chechnya $30 million in cash and two tons of opium in exchange for approximately 20 nuclear warheads. Sources stated that Bin Laden planned to have the warheads dismantled by his own team of scientists, who would then transform the weapons into “instant nukes” or “suitcase nukes.”(10)

Al-Watan Al-Arabi also reported that Bin Laden had tried a different route to acquisition before turning to Chechnya for nuclear weapons. According to the article, Bin Laden’s original strategy was to develop his own “in-house” nuclear manufacturing complex, in which small, tactical nuclear weapons would be manufactured from scratch. Beginning in 1993, Bin Laden instructed some of his aides to obtain weapons-grade uranium that could be used to develop small nuclear weapons.(11)

December 24, 1998

In an interview with Time Magazine, Bin Laden asserted that acquiring weapons of any type was a Muslim “religious duty.” When asked whether he was seeking to obtain chemical or nuclear weapons, Bin Laden replied, “Acquiring weapons for the defense of Muslims is a religious duty. If I have indeed acquired these weapons, then I thank God for enabling me to do so.”(12) He responded similarly to the same question in an ABC News interview two days later, stating, “If I seek to acquire such weapons, this is a religious duty. How we use them is up to us.”(13)

The Al-Watan al-Arabi source stated that Bin Laden’s team of scientists was composed of “five nuclear scientists from Turkmenistan,” and that the leader of the team “used to work on the atomic reactor of Iraq before it was destroyed by Israel in the 1980’s.” The same source also stated that the scientists were working to develop a nuclear reactor that could be used “to transform the fissionable material into a more active source, one which can produce a fission reaction from a very small amount of material and be placed in a package smaller than a backpack.”(14) In addition, the source stated that Bin Laden had hired “hundreds of atomic scientists” from the former Soviet Union. Reportedly, Bin Laden paid the scientists $2,000 per month, an amount much greater than their wages in the former Soviet republics.(15)

General 1997-1998

As a result of the revelations about Bin Laden’s alleged nuclear activities, intelligence agencies worldwide directed their attention to the apparent connection between opium production in Afghanistan and Al-Qa’ida’s interest in nuclear weapons. Opium farmers in Afghanistan produced approximately 3,269 tons of opium in 1997-98. In late 1998, Bin Laden reportedly sent interested parties to Afghanistan to buy large amounts of opium, probably to raise funds for Al-Qa’ida.(16)

I couldn't get the iClips PBS video to work. Any others have luck?

I think that this article is grossly understated. Obviously, chemical agents could have been obtained from Iran, Iraq, Russia or any of the arsenals of the former Sov. Union countries like the STANS. To step up a smidge to biological, or even a bit further to mini-nukes is certainly a likelihood rather than a possibility. And there is no doubt that in the hands of suicide bombers that they would indeed, be used. We should probably stop waiting for another, even more deadly shoe to drop.

Calling them "mafia" is too much of a complement. The Mafia wants the police to keep everything civil. Saves them alot of work and bullets, not to mention horse heads.

These reports need to be sent to every college campus that are planning anti-war protests. Launch party this weekend for the 10 year clean up on Clinton's mess of terror he left us with.

I believe that your 10 year estimate is low.

Hey Kattracks, I wonder why this article has been pulled from the Washington Times web site? Two sources around the net have come up blank for this article also.

Anyway bump to you guys.

The Bin Ladin problem extends across national and ethnic boundaries, including some "Russian mafia" people. It's basically an attack on the West, and there are many different people who may work together for that agenda. To counter it we need an equally international alliance.

Pulled from Washtimes.com? Very interesting observation. I could not find it there either but the following posted by Gertz on the 28th might be a clue as to the type of political pressure building on the production of news (from Inside the Ring by Bill Gertz and Rowan Scarborough):

Moscow perplexed
     Only in Russia could the government be offended by intelligence reports linking Russian organized crime to Osama bin Laden and his terrorist associates.

     The Foreign Ministry issued a statement in response to reports in this newspaper that the U.S. government has obtained new intelligence linking bin Laden to efforts to obtain chemical, biological and nuclear weapons materials with the help of Russian organized crime groups.

The Foreign Ministry expressed its pique at the disclosure in the press "rather than being discussed through the channels existing between the two countries, including those between their secret services."

"The artificially created image of Russia as a country associated mainly with the sway of the mafia is not in keeping with reality," the ministry said in a statement carried by the ITAR-Tass News Agency.

The ministry called the leak an attempt to "compromise Russo-American cooperation" in finding the terrorists who carried out the Sept. 11 attacks.

To put it plainly -- it appears we are now in an era of "Russo-American cooperation."

Continue to ... watch out.