Al-Qaida nukes already in US

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Al-Qaida nukes already in U.S.
Terrorists, bombs smuggled across
Mexico border by MS-13 gangsters

WASHINGTON – As London recovers from the latest deadly al-Qaida attack that killed at least
50, top U.S. government officials are contemplating what they consider to be an inevitable and
much bigger assault on America – one likely to kill millions, destroy the economy and
fundamentally alter the course of history, reports Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
According to captured al-Qaida leaders and documents, the plan is called the "American
Hiroshima" and involves the multiple detonation of nuclear weapons already smuggled into the
U.S. over the Mexican border with the help of the MS-13 street gang and other organized crime
groups.
Al-Qaida has obtained at least 40 nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union – including
suitcase nukes, nuclear mines, artillery shells and even some missile warheads. In addition,
documents captured in Afghanistan show al-Qaida had plans to assemble its own nuclear
weapons with fissile material it purchased on the black market.
In addition to detonating its own nuclear weapons already planted in the U.S., military sources
also say there is evidence to suggest al-Qaida is paying former Russian special forces Spetznaz
to assist the terrorist group in locating nuclear weapons formerly concealed inside the U.S. by the
Soviet Union during the Cold War. Osama bin Laden's group is also paying nuclear scientists
from Russia and Pakistan to maintain its existing nuclear arsenal and assemble additional
weapons with the materials it has invested hundreds of millions in procuring over a period of 10
years.
The plans for the devastating nuclear attack on the U.S. have been under development for more
than a decade. It is designed as a final deadly blow of defeat to the U.S., which is seen by al-
Qaida and its allies as "the Great Satan."
At least half the nuclear weapons in the al-Qaida arsenal were obtained for cash from the
Chechen terrorist allies.
But the most disturbing news is that high level U.S. officials now believe at least some of those
weapons have been smuggled into the U.S. for use in the near future in major cities as part of this
"American Hiroshima" plan, according to an upcoming book, "The Al Qaeda Connection:
International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming Apocalypse," by Paul L. Williams, a
former FBI consultant.
According to Williams, former CIA Director George Tenet informed President Bush one month
after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that at least two suitcase nukes had reached al-Qaida operatives
in the U.S.
"Each suitcase weighed between 50 and 80 kilograms (approximately 110 to 176 pounds) and
contained enough fissionable plutonium and uranium to produce an explosive yield in excess of
two kilotons," wrote Williams. "One suitcase bore the serial number 9999 and the Russian
manufacturing date of 1988. The design of the weapons, Tenet told the president, is simple. The
plutonium and uranium are kept in separate compartments that are linked to a triggering
mechanism that can be activated by a clock or a call from the cell phone."
According to the author, the news sent Bush "through the roof," prompting him to order his
national security team to give nuclear terrorism priority over every other threat to America.
However, it is worth noting that Bush failed to translate this policy into securing the U.S.-
Mexico border through which the nuclear weapons and al-Qaida operatives are believed to have
passed with the help of the MS-13 smugglers. He did, however, order the building of
underground bunkers away from major metropolitan areas for use by federal government
managers following an attack.
Bin Laden, according to Williams, has nearly unlimited funds to spend on his nuclear terrorism
plan because he has remained in control of the Afghanistan-produced heroin industry. Poppy
production has greatly increased even while U.S. troops are occupying the country, he writes.
Al Qaida has developed close relations with the Albanian Mafia, which assists in the smuggling
and sale of heroin throughout Europe and the U.S.
Some of that money is used to pay off the notorious MS-13 street gang between $30,000 and
$50,000 for each sleeper agent smuggled into the U.S. from Mexico. The sleepers are also
provided with phony identification, most often bogus matricula consular ID cards
indistinguishable from Mexico's official ID, now accepted in the U.S. to open bank accounts and
obtain driver's licenses.
The Bush administration's unwillingness to secure the U.S.-Mexico border has puzzled and
dismayed a growing number of activists and ordinary citizens who see it as the No. 1 security
threat to the nation. The Minuteman organization is planning a major mobilization of thousands
of Americans this fall designed to shut down the entire 2,000-mile border as it did in April with a
23-mile stretch in Arizona.
According to Williams' sources, thousands of al-Qaida sleeper agents have now been forward
deployed into the U.S. to carry out their individual roles in the coming "American Hiroshima"
plan.
Bin Laden's goal, according to the book, is to kill at least 4 million Americans, 2 million of
whom must be children. Only then, bin Laden has said, would the crimes committed by America
on the Arab and Muslim world be avenged.
There is virtually no doubt among intelligence analysts al-Qaida has obtained fully assembled
nuclear weapons, according to Williams. The only question is how many. Estimates range
between a dozen and 70. The breathtaking news is that an undetermined number of these
weapons, including suitcase bombs, mines and crude tactical nuclear weapons, have already been
smuggled into the U.S. – at least some across the U.S.-Mexico border.
The future plan, according to captured al-Qaida agents and documents, suggests the attacks will
take place simultaneously in major cities throughout the country – including New York, Boston,
Washington, Las Vegas, Miami, Chicago and Los Angeles.
In response to the G2 Bulletin revelations, Chris Simcox, founder of the Minuteman Civil
Defense Corps, a citizen action group demanding the U.S. government take control of its borders,
said an immediate military presence on the borders is now imperative "to stop the overwhelming
influx of unidentified, potentially hostile and seditious persons coming across at an alarming
rate."
"Terrorists have carte blanche to carry practically anything they want across our national line at
this time," he said. "As ordinary citizens have warned this government for years, the only
surprising part about the new information reported here is that nothing apocalyptic from
Mexican-border weapons trafficking has yet happened. Terrorism has reared its ugly head in
London again these past few days, and as we know all too well we are not immune in this
country. At this point, the next attempt to attack America at home is just a matter of 'when,' not
'if.' And our unsecured borders have surely contributed to this threat – yet our government
officials continue to fiddle while our nation's margin of security and safety burns away. The
president and Congress had better wake up before they have to answer for another devastating
terrorist incursion on our own soil."
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Terrorist base south of border
Paraguay sees major influx of Arabic-speaking
'Europeans'

International law-enforcement authorities combating terrorism have growing concerns about a
major influx into the Latin American nation of Paraguay of Arabic-speaking visitors carrying
European passports.
Some of these "Europeans" could not even speak the language of their so-called mother land,
according to a report in the latest issue of Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, an online premium
intelligence newsletter published by WND.
Many of the visitors and emigres travel to the triple border region where Argentina, Brazil and
Paraguay meet. This region, often described as a lawless area, is nicknamed by some intelligence
station agents as "The Muslim Triangle meeting zone."
Intelligence experts have been warning since the late 1990s they had noticed a tendency among
Islamic terrorists to operate from Paraguay, a landlocked country in the heart of South America,
with a territory slightly smaller than California, and with geographic extremes perfect for hiding
illegal activities. Information surrounding such activities arrived in the U.S. before Sept. 11,
2001, but failed to sound any alarms.
Even today, reports G2 Bulletin, dealing seriously with Islamic terrorism in Latin America is not
considered to be of high importance.
Muslims have also found their way into Bolivia, Colombia, Brazil and other neighboring
countries, and authorities claim most Muslims crystallize into small community clusters,
centering mainly in large cities, close to mosques, prayer locations or religious Quran schools
known as madrassas. One of the best examples to this trend is the Maicao district, where some
70 percent of all small- and medium-sized businesses belong to Muslims mainly of Syrian,
Lebanese and Egyptian origin.
A Colombian official told G2 Bulletin: "A fair part of our Muslim community are second- and
third-generation immigrants, but the problems arise from recent immigrants who import new
jihadi philosophies. These people are also active in Islamic missionary work converting the poor
and destitute with promises of a better life under Islam."
Miguel Angel Toma of the Argentinean intelligence service SIDE last year, and again early this
year, visited a number of regional capitals and then traveled also to Washington, Berlin, London
and Paris. The purpose of his meetings was to discuss with his counterparts the growing danger,
and the urgent need to be aware of, Islamic terrorism known as "Terrorists Muselmanus."
Toma voiced his warning the difficult economic situation in the continent, galloping inflation,
and an increase of corruption and organized crime, are creating "a dangerous greenhouse where
poisonous roots are developing."
The Argentineans expressed their caution by emphasizing the danger is not only local. They
reflected on the anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli deadly terror attacks in 1992 and 1994 in Buenos
Aires, warning similar events are imminent elsewhere. The Argentineans now claim the attacks
against the Jewish Community Center and the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires are linked to the
Iranian intelligence and their Hezbollah proxy.
These terrorists are organized in active cells around the country with safe houses in neighboring
Paraguay. An Argentinean document seen by G2 Bulletin describes part of the drug-smuggling
trail, as well as that of weapons and people. These elaborate trails run through a web of border
crossings pointing also to the complex cooperation between various "smuggling experts." These
belong to jihadi organizations such as al-Qaida, joining forces with local drug lords, developing
and oiling their smuggling mechanism all the way to Mexico aiming ultimately to hit the U.S.
The Argentinean intelligence service assessment, privy among others, to European and Middle
Eastern agencies, has reached a significant and grave conclusion: They claim that since 9/11, and
the partial success in the war against terrorism, mainly in the Middle East, Afghanistan and
Central Asia, the jihadi pendulum is tilting more and more toward South America. The reason
terrorist cells in Paraguay, whether active or dormant, can continue to grow and flourish, is the
fact this nation is considered to be the most corrupt in South America.
The nature of law and order, or rather lawlessness and disorder in Paraguay, enabled operatives
of such terrorist groups as al-Qaida, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas to feel safe, even in the
heart of Asuncion. These organizations, and probably more, turned Paraguay into a logistical
base.
As one local journalist told G2 Bulletin: "It's easy. At this stage our country is not engulfed in a
civil war or guerrilla campaign and, therefore, security forces are more prone to financial
kickbacks."
A Mossad operative talking to G2 Bulletin under the condition of anonymity said his agency is
aware of numerous cases in which nothing was done to interfere with jihadi activity, mainly due
to lucrative businesses between them and the police, accompanied with the motto, "Now you see
me now you don't."
A German agent of the Bundes Nachrichten Dienst - Federal Information Service who recently
visited a number of Latin American capitals has evaluated the situation in the triple border area
as "a ticking time bomb." He believes the growing pressure exercised on terrorists in Europe,
Asia and North America will bring many of them to move their organizational apparatus to
countries such as Paraguay.
A source from the Arab community in Asuncion was quoted by a Middle Eastern diplomat as
saying: "On the Brazilian border you can buy everything, from a passport to an army general.
Most of all you don't have to be over concerned with Mossad presence."
The same source described two meetings in Asuncion, which took place between local
businessmen, mainly of Arab descent, with visitors from Europe and Asia, including Pakistan
and Malaysia. The meetings took place in Hotel Westphalia, some eight kilometers from the
Pettirossi Silvio Airport and in the apartment hotel Zapihir, close to the capital's downtown.
Those attending the meeting in the downtown area included visitors from Argentina and at least
one Dutch citizen suspected to be a Muslim convert and an al-Qaida operative.
CIA and MI5 agents, who according to the Asuncion police were "hovering over the hotel
districts," were surprised to discover Muslim Paraguayans and some of their guests visiting the
large Cathedral Blas San de Dia.
Apparently the alleged terrorists discussed organizational matters while inside the cathedral,
hoping to appear as regular worshippers, undisturbed by intelligence agents. A similar practice
was reported from other Latin American cities where many suspects of jihad ideologies meet in
churches and cathedrals presenting themselves as members of the Christian community. The
Israeli experience shows that in the past Arab intelligence services used the disguise of religious
Jews to penetrate the Jewish community in Argentina and from there arriving in Israel as "bona
fide" immigrants.
At this stage the growing danger is that of militant Islam penetrating Mexico, a country with an
increasing Muslim community, including Muslim converts. Some of them have ties to the
Mexican community and to illegal immigrants' smugglers operating in American states bordering
Mexico, especially those with connections in the greater Los Angeles area and other major cities.
Intelligence experts now assume the so-called jihadi spider web is moving north fast from
Paraguay. It is just a question of time before terrorists use, and quite possibly already have used,
the loosely guarded American-Mexican border. It should come as no surprise when, sometime in
the not-too-far future, the U.S. will be attacked in a deadly way. Presently this danger, due to the
porous southern border, enables easy penetration of the country described by one official as "the
largest Swiss cheese in the world."
Experienced anti-terror experts told G2 Bulletin the Mexican border is the Achilles heel of the
Department of Homeland Security.
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Terrorists active in U.S. 'backyard'
Latin America hotbed for both al-Qaida, Hezbollah

As the administration of President George W. Bush weighs an attack against Saddam Hussein's
Iraq, international terrorist groups are taking firm hold in South America – often referred to as
"America's backyard" – according to recent testimony given to the U.S. House of
Representatives.
Both Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida and the Palestinian terrorist group Hezbollah are active in
Latin America, with Hezbollah having "broader penetration in the Western Hemisphere than any
other terrorist organization," stated the U.S. State Department's acting coordinator for
counterterrorism, Mark F. Wong, in testimony before the U.S. House International Relations
Committee.
Hezbollah "is a multi-faceted, multinational" organization that "has a presence in virtually every
country in North and South America. …" Wong reported.
Addressing the problem of "international terrorist threats to Americans and American interests"
in South America, Wong described a "collaboration among terrorist groups," which included the
apparent cooperation between the Irish Republican Army, or IRA, and the communist
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
The IRA and FARC have had "established links … since at least 1998," according to the
summary of findings regarding links between the IRA and FARC issued by the majority staff of
the House International Relations Committee.
The Marxist FARC's "ability to carry out terrorist bombings" in Colombia is linked directly by
that nation's government to "the IRA's activity," according to the committee report.
In addition to ties with the IRA, the FARC also has close relations with the communist Cuban
government of Fidel Castro, which, in turn, hosts an IRA liaison office on the island.
The government of Colombia includes Iran in the mix of foreign entities operating in FARC-
controlled areas and supporting the FARC movement.
Both al-Qaida and Hezbollah are active in the common border area of Colombia, Peru and
Ecuador, according to an earlier statement of Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage in
hearings before the Foreign Appropriations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations
Committee, cited in a report from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
The activities of the Irish Republican Army, Iran, Cuba and various international terrorist
networks operating in Colombia may turn that Latin American nation into a "breeding ground for
international terror equaled perhaps only by Afghanistan," according to the committee report.
Further to the south in Latin America, Hezbollah and the terrorist Islamic Resistance Movement
(Hamas) are operating in the tri-border region of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. The suspected
activities of these groups include counterfeiting U.S. currency and drug smuggling, with the area
in which they function described as a "haven for Islamic extremists" by the administrator of the
Drug Enforcement Administration, Asa Hutchinson, in testimony before the House International
Relations Committee.
"The situation in the tri-border area [of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil] highlights the ease with
which terrorist organizations can infiltrate and assimilate in other countries and go relatively
undetected for an extended period of time," Hutchinson stated.
The linkage among various terrorist groups and nations associated with support of terrorism in
Latin America combines considerable financial resources and technological expertise.
In addition to the vast oil wealth of Iran, the South American terrorist network can rely upon
South American drug money to finance its activities. Colombia alone produces 90 percent of the
cocaine and "at least" 70 percent of the heroin sold in the U.S., according to estimates of the
House International Relations Committee.
FARC reaps about $2 million per day in illegal drug profits, according to the committee.
Sophisticated techniques in the fields of weapons development and use, espionage and
infiltration are readily available to terrorist organizations operating in South America.
Cuba possesses one of the most well-equipped and well-trained intelligence services in the world,
and it has only one target – the United States.
Like Cuba, Iran has a sharply honed intelligence capability, and, as with Cuba, Iran has close ties
– including technological and military ties – with China and Russia.

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Opinion

An American Hiroshima
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: August 11, 2004
ASPEN, Colo. — If a 10-kiloton nuclear weapon, a midget even smaller than the one
that destroyed Hiroshima, exploded in Times Square, the fireball would reach tens of
millions of degrees Fahrenheit.
It would vaporize or destroy the theater district, Madison Square Garden, the Empire
State Building, Grand Central Terminal and Carnegie Hall (along with me and my
building). The blast would partly destroy a much larger area, including the United
Nations. On a weekday some 500,000 people would be killed.
Could this happen?
Unfortunately, it could -- and many experts believe that such an attack, somewhere, is
likely. The Aspen Strategy Group, a bipartisan assortment of policy mavens, focused on
nuclear risks at its annual meeting here last week, and the consensus was twofold: the
danger of nuclear terrorism is much greater than the public believes, and our
government hasn't done nearly enough to reduce it.
Graham Allison, a Harvard professor whose terrifying new book, ''Nuclear Terrorism,''
offers the example cited above, notes that he did not pluck it from thin air. He writes
that on Oct. 11, 2001, exactly a month after 9/11, aides told President Bush that a C.I.A.
source code-named Dragonfire had reported that Al Qaeda had obtained a 10-kiloton
nuclear weapon and smuggled it into New York City.
The C.I.A. found the report plausible. The weapon had supposedly been stolen from
Russia, which indeed has many 10-kiloton weapons. Russia is reported to have lost
some of its nuclear materials, and Al Qaeda has mounted a determined effort to get or
make such a weapon. And the C.I.A. had picked up Al Qaeda chatter about an ''American
Hiroshima.''
President Bush dispatched nuclear experts to New York to search for the weapon and
sent Dick Cheney and other officials out of town to ensure the continuity of government
in case a weapon exploded in Washington instead. But to avoid panic, the White House
told no one in New York City, not even Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Dragonfire's report was wrong, but similar reports -- that Al Qaeda has its hands on a
nuclear weapon from the former Soviet Union -- have regularly surfaced in the
intelligence community, even though such a report has never been confirmed. We do
know several troubling things: Al Qaeda negotiated for the $1.5 million purchase of
uranium (apparently of South African origin) from a retired Sudanese cabinet minister;
its envoys traveled repeatedly to Central Asia to buy weapons-grade nuclear materials;
and Osama bin Laden's top deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, boasted, ''We sent our people to
Moscow, to Tashkent, to other Central Asian states, and they negotiated, and we
purchased some suitcase [nuclear] bombs.''
Professor Allison offers a standing bet, at 51-to-49 odds, that, barring radical new
antiproliferation steps, a terrorist nuclear strike will occur somewhere in the world in
the next 10 years. So I took his bet. If there is no such nuclear attack by August 2014, he
owes me $5.10. If there is an attack, I owe him $4.90.
I took the bet because I don't think the odds of nuclear terror are quite as great as he
does. If I were guessing wildly, I would say a 20 percent risk over 10 years. In any case, if
I lose the bet, then I'll probably be vaporized and won't have much use for money.
Unfortunately, plenty of smart people think I've made a bad bet. William Perry, the
former secretary of defense, says there is an even chance of a nuclear terror strike within
this decade -- that is, in the next six years.
''We're racing toward unprecedented catastrophe,'' Mr. Perry warns. ''This is
preventable, but we're not doing the things that could prevent it.''
That is what I find baffling: an utter failure of the political process. The Bush
administration responded aggressively on military fronts after 9/11, and in November
2003, Mr. Bush observed, ''The greatest threat of our age is nuclear, chemical or
biological weapons in the hands of terrorists, and the dictators who aid them.'' But the
White House has insisted on tackling the most peripheral elements of the W.M.D. threat,
like Iraq, while largely ignoring the central threat, nuclear proliferation. The upshot is
that the risk that a nuclear explosion will devastate an American city is greater now than
it was during the cold war, and it's growing.
In my next column, I’ll explain how we can reduce the risk of an American Hiroshima.
William Safire is on vacation.

American Hiroshima - Nuclear Attacks on
Multiple U.S. Cities - Doom for USA?

Bin Laden seeks the death of 4 million Americans;

Says 2 million must be children –
– by James Roberts - SecretsofSurvival.com –

Hiroshima - On August 6, 1945 the nuclear weapon 'Little Boy' was dropped on
Hiroshima, Japan at the height of World War II.