Re: Al Qaida Nukes in the USA

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

After reading what you posted, I can understand why

intelligence was in quotation marks.



--- jjcohen <jjcohen@PRODIGY.NET> wrote:

> From the NewsMax Website: http://www.newsmax.com

> 

>   

> Breaking from NewsMax.com

> 

> A new book written by a former FBI consultant claims

> that al-Qaeda not only has obtained nuclear devices,

> but also likely has them in the U.S. and will

> detonate them in the near future. These chilling

> allegations appear in "Osama's Revenge: The Next

> 9/11: What the Media and the Government Haven't Told

> You," by Paul L. Williams (Prometheus Books).

> 

>                             <snip>

> 

> Williams says his "intelligence" concludes the most

> likely means of attack would come in the form of a

> so-called "suitcase (size) tactical nuclear bomb."

> 

> "The chatter that everyone is referring to is coming

> from the nest in Pakistan, a virulent nest in Iran,

> the chatter is all about nukes being here....the

> best bang for the buck is nuclear, they (al-Qaeda)

> know that."

> 

> Such bombs are estimated to have an explosive

> strength of approximately "10 kilotons" and could

> weigh less than 35 pounds.

> 

> "With today's technology and the Internet, an

> experienced person could easily assemble such a bomb

> in his home garage," Williams explained.

> 

> A bomb of that strength could easily level Manhattan

> and spread lethal radiation throughout the NYC-Metro

> area says the author. "It (the nuke) could render

> Manhattan unlivable for 1,000 years," he estimated.

> 

>                                         <snip>

> 

> 

> 

> I wonder if the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

> realize that their cities will still be "unlivable"

> for another ~950 years? Given the quality of insight

> exhibited in his "unlivability" assertion, the

> credibility of rest of the information in William's

> book might also be considered  somewhat

> questionable.

> 

> 





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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com





		

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