X-Message-Number: 17763
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 12:45:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Driven FromThePack <>
Subject: OBL + 15K of U-235 == move Alcor?

Perhaps we ought to think about moving Alcor away from
Phoenix, one of America's largest cities?

from debka.com, the Israeli intelligence website that
was, AFAIK, the first news media organization to break
the news that American forces were moving into
Afghanistan:


In a special investigation,DEBKA-Net-Weekly learned
from well-placed intelligence sources that the
millionaire terror master did procure a supply of
uranium-235 six months before his Al Qaeda suicides
carried out their September 11 strikes in America. The
uranium was delivered following an extraordinary deal
between the most wanted terrorist in the world and one
of the world s most dangerous mobsters, a shadowy
Ukrainian-born Jew called Semion Mogilevich, who rules
over an arms-trafficking, money-laundering,
drug-running, prostitution and graft empire. 
Sources who spoke to DEBKA-Net-Weekly on condition of
anonymity report that for a princely sum estimated at
US$40 - 75 million, Bin Laden bought between 12 and 15
kilos of uranium-235, all of which came from Russia or
some Central Asian Muslim republic. 
If this is true, the master terrorist has enough
fissionable material to build between 3 and 5 nuclear
devices.
A detailed account of how the nuclear material was
sold, smuggled and delivered to Bin Laden is carried
in the latest issue of DEBKA-Net-Weekly, the exclusive
electronic newsletter put out for subscribers by
DEBKAfile. 
To subscribe, click on the yellow banner atop
Headlines on this page.
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From Reuters:


  Al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan have developed
chemical and biological weapons and could have
nuclear-related arms, defense officials said
yesterday. Top      "What we believe is that they have
a crude chemical and possibly biological [weapons]
capability," a senior defense official said.
     "And if there's any nuclear capability, it is
liable to be more radiological than fissile," the
official said.
     Radiological weapons are bombs that combine
radioactive material with conventional explosives to
increase their deadliness. A fissile nuclear device
produces a nuclear blast.
    
......................................


Here is a scenario: smuggle the 15 kilos U235 into the
USA.  Buy ingredients for a Tim McVeigh type
fertilizer bomb. Prepare fertilizer bomb, and grind
the U235 into dust (easy to do with "suicide
grinder".).

Then place U235 and bomb into large van and have 22
bombers (not necessarily suiciders!) rent a house
outside 15 large metro areas (you figure .75 Kilos or
so of U235 dust is sufficient to contaminate the core
of the 15 largest American metro areas). Then just
wait for a windy day, with the wind blowing into the
city.

Might Phoenix be large enough to be a target?


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