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Osama And His Possession Of Nuclear Weapons

(repost 3-30-2004)

The nuclear bags that Ymtlkhaalshikh Bin Ladn

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A small bag contains an atomic bomb

The Russians scientists carried out in the seventies development and the designing of small atomic bombs by bag size, and the making of these bombs took place on the request of the ( a KGB ) the Soviet Intelligence bureau and that for the sake of the destruction of the main targets the war Lladoathnaa, as the stations of electricity and bridges and the dams and the airports and the military commands and the control centers .

These bombs of it are a destructive force she estimates at one kiloton any what equals thousand ton from TNT item, and she equals one tenth of the power of the atomic bombs that fell on the two cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki .

Oh that it if the smuggling of one of these bags took place to inside the United States to your mother of destruction the building of the Congress altogether and each thing surrounds it along half mile and hence the spread of the nuclear atomic fallout all over Washington .

This small bomb with its ability be that she kills about 100000 persons because of the nuclear radiations and will become the aggrieved regions not liable to the living to for a long time from the time .

The weight of the single bag estimates what between 30 kg to 45 kg, any with the ability of a single individual that he carries it, as that it do not require group individuals ( a crew ) for its explosion, but a single person suffices only to this task .

And there another kind from the nuclear bags she contains radiant items only, and he completes its explosion by traditional explosives which cause the spread of the radiation poisoning, and forms the results of this poisoning a destructive on the region citizens and on the life in the future by it


A member from the US Congress carries out the presentation of a model to a hypothetical nuclear bag



A picture clarifies the tools that inside the bag




Another kind to the bombs of the nuclear bags







A form of another kind from the nuclear bags the German police managed the seizure of it in Munich airport in August 1994



Did the sheikh Osama Ben Ladin can the acquisition of like these nuclear bags ؟




Intelligence reports pointed that the sheikh Osama Ben Ladin tried in the year of 1993 purchase of the enriched uranium while other reports pointed that Ben Laden may possess the doing of tactical nuclear weapons that carried out its purchase from the black market and that after the disintegration of Soviet Union and the smuggling of items and nuclear weapons from the centers of manufacture and nuclear reactors that closed and the dismissal of its experts took place and the censorship and the securing were absent from it on what she contains from the items of its danger .

And western sources said that Osama Ben Ladin carried out the purchase of 20 nuclear bags that carries on the back with the reach of 30 million dollars, and started a Russian mafia with smuggling the bags a land outside the Russian lands and through secret ways through Uzbekistan .

And the French magazine of Xpress revealed the recognitions previous to the Sudanese accused of Jamal Ahmad Al Fadl who was sued in the case of the explosion of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, and said in its recognitions in front of the American court its joining of nuclear items purchase attempts started with a telephone call from a prominent official in the Al-Qaeda Organization . And not was the favour is still a recruit in the Al-Qaeda lines that that official cost the check who claimed a person in Khartoum by that in its possession an uranium shown to the sale . And so at the end of 1993 or first in year 1994 Al Fadl 's shadow he contacts mediators and occurred for it that one of them at least were occupying an important position in the Sudanese government in a previous time .

And finally, Al Fadl in the morning with the company of two men headed for a house that falls in north of the city that its companions entered and they got out of it after a while from the time and they carry a huge bag leave you from it the record of its length is 3 feet, then passed it a paper that did not can a reading what he is written in it because it was English but it could the discrimination of South Africa ferry .

After that Al Fadl delivered that paper to one of Al-Qaeda leaders . And appears that my official the Al-Qaeda was admired the paper content therefore they contacted the favour until he informs the concerned about their acceptance of the purchase of the record by the required amount and he is 1.5 million dollars .

After that, these sent by 10 thousands dollars to Al Fadl and undertook the completion of the deal souls . And Jamal said that they sent to it the informed is saying it : I have carried out great work, and we will examine the matters, and each thing will be alright, this what the magazine mentioned .

And in the year of 1997 America awakened from its sleep after general Alexander 's permit so that he exterminates the previous Russian president's advisor Boris Yeltsin in facing of one of American television channels that previous Soviet Union have bestowed the nuclear arsenal is 100 small nuclear bag, and reported so that he perishes that it do not know where all this issue disappeared from the atomic bombs with the single kiloton and added a saying : I do not know where is she ! Did she destroy a mother she stored a mother that sold or she was stolen, do not know, and have mentioned that so that he perishes in its meeting it spoke with the Russians scientists who made those small bombs and the one who confirmed for it that they have produced many of it and have greeted totally to ( a KGB ) the Soviet .

And immediately the statement of the officials came in the Russian government with Alexander 's denial so that he perishes and its accusation of the released stupidity and that it seeks the acquisition of a political propaganda, as the Russian government denied the presence of such atomic bombs the small .

The strange in the matter that the general so that he perishes was killed in the accident of helicopter fall in Siberia in year 2002, and the Russian novel around the accident was that its aeroplane collided with the electricity lines of the high pressure due to the badness of the weather conditions ! .


Alexander so that he exterminates with the previous president Boris Yltsn


And after events eleventh of September Osama Ben Ladin in a meeting that with it the Pakistani dawn newspaper held said : chemical and in the possession of the Al-Qaeda Network nuclear weapons and its presence as a power deterred, and added a saying : it may use it against the United States if what used Washington similar weapons against it .

And she was informed the French magazine of Xpress about the journalist Hamid Mir who held that meeting is that Ayman Zawahiri confirmed for it after the meeting that Osama Ben Ladin could the purchase of 3 small atomic bombs from the gangs of the Chechen mafia about 30 million dollars .



Osama Ben Ladin and the journalist Hamid Mir during the meeting that the Islamic dawn newspaper published


And from another side American sources about the first information reported that its leakage ran around the recognitions of the Al-Qaeda member Ramzi Binalshibh, who arrested on it in Pakistan and accepted to the American authorities a significance : that the Al-Qaeda Network possesses limited nuclear abilities its purchase took place from the Chechen mafia through mediators from Chechnya .

And when Talban carried out the sudden and fast withdrawal from the capital Kabul, the finding took place in one of the houses on important and dangerous documents to the Al-Qaeda Network she consists of 25 thrown surfaces in the rubbish and between the haberdasheries, those documents prove that the rule was seeking the possession of nuclear weapons, and included designing of a nuclear weapon that will require subjects a difficult the acquisition of it as the plutonium for the doing of a nuclear explosion, one of the documents were entitled by ( the biggest bombs ) and this document describes a brief way that the many do not know for making a nuclear explosion, and a like back an affirmation that the Al-Qaeda could making what names by ( a radiant dispersal weapon ), and this weapon a nuclear explosion does not result from it but will lead to the spread of the radiant wreck on a wide region for the destruction of the life by it and made it other than its benefit for the living and the establishment, as the documents on the description of a way of the collection of the items of the severe explosion included a made from chemical items .



A picture to the place that found in it the documents and the papers






The first surface to one of the documents






A surface from the documents that were found in a house in Kabul







List 64 chemical substances for the making of the items of the severe explosion




Another surface from the document




And in the end then Allah alone I know if the Al-Qaeda Network have possessed nuclear weapons or no, and those accusations may be a pretext for the sake of the launch of the war on the Al-Qaeda Network and on what they name the present sleeping cells by the thousands in the Islamic countries, as that I wonder at the non the pursuit of the Arab rulers of the possession of those deterrent weapons while they were content with the submission and the submission to America and the pursuit of its satisfaction and the achievement of its demands, and Allah Glory be to Him says : ( and prepare for them what could from a power and from the steeds of war you terrify by it Allah enemy and your enemy ) .




The report ended



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Do went the bags are nuclear to Ibn Ladn ؟

4-1-2004

 

 

Do went the bags are nuclear to Ibn Ladn ؟

 

Elaph from Moscow : she became spilt nuclear bags and the truth of its presence, and that she have disappeared really and went to terrorist networks a remoteness its disappearance from the Russian stores, went back a shake is the days for the appearance again in the Russian yard, after statements the previous strategic nuclear forces Chief of Staff announced it the general Victor Ysin, confirmed in it the presence of small nuclear weapons and liable to the transfer easily, the nuclear bags are called it

And the general Ysin in a statement to the magazine of the weekly Gornal said she spread it in its last issue, that it was a doing a present within the weapons of the Russian army .Confirming that the nuclear bags are not by a fable . And this is the first of its kind official affirmation it on the presence of the carried nuclear weapons . And he said that it is an expression about small nuclear explosives that may be by the mines size .And he revealed that Soviet Union appeared O the result of these nuclear weapons is small since in year 1967 and the special mines were called it .And she was at America kinds of it also .And according to its data, Moscow and Washington agreed in the nineties and within the framework of the reduction of the nuclear weapons the settlement of the nuclear bags ا . and pointed that Russia and America and China and Israel have today artistic abilities to the production of this kind of the destructive weapons .

And she was data, a revelation of it is the previous Secretary of Council of the national Alamn the general Alexander so that he appears in year 1997, has confirmed the disappearance of number of those bags .And that it fell by the hand of the Chechens separatists . And a form so that he exterminates its time to a paradise that found according to its saying 48 nuclear bags between 132 .And since the time the riddle of these weapons became disturbing the politicians beds and defending the natural environment .
And the general Ysin says that there are greater dangers from the occurence of what is named the dirty nuclear charges by terrorists hand .Hinting by that within the capability of the terrorists and the extremists with its making souls after their acquisition of the nuclear items necessary to it in the black market . Confirming a truth the presence of such market .And the production of nuclear equipments not hold from the making of the death belt that the suicide bombers use in their operations . Explaining by that these weapons have so that I speak a nuclear explosion, but it caused poisoning powers by the nuclear الأشعة killing to wide distances .

And he was for the statements of the general wide effects amid the military experts and the Russian political milieus and within this context a report pointed that published that in Moscow appears that it expresses a governmental attitude, to that representatives an organization ( the Al-Qaeda ) they declared in the last period and to several times that their envoys managed the purchase of 20 of the small atomic bombs from Russia in autumn in year 1998 . And they mentioned that they sent those bombs for its memorization in a store belonging to Talban near city of Afghan Kandahar . And it appeared that the talk takes place about ( bombs in a bag ) . And organization elements ( the Al-Qaeda ) claim that a number of the Chechens sold to them those bombs after they stole it from the stores of the Russian weapons, and they collected against that on 30 million dollars of money and two tons from the opium .

And the Russian report pointed to that the acquisition of like those fabricated ammunitions in Russia or the United States is considered a matter a tempting really . And some of the sources confirm that those bombs weigh from 30 to 50 as a grief and a reservation in a fund by dimensions 60 X 40 X are 20 . And the destructive force resembles to all one of it the power of the American bomb that was thrown on Hiroshima where she ranges from 1 to 15 kilotons .
And other sources point that those nuclear ammunitions the acquisition of it took place in Ukraine and he is not in Russia at all where carried out the Ukrainian scientists are an Almdqoun with its sale to organization elements ( the Al-Qaeda ) . Also another novel appeared that points to the probability of the occurrence of that organization individuals on the American American bombs ( an ADM ) that were the army that possesses from it in the eighties about 600 piece .

And it is natural that Moscow and Kyyiv and Washington carries out the refutation of such allegations . And the report noticed by that it and if we preferred the probability of those bombs fall that declared about its disappearance, by Osama Ben Ladin 's supporters hands then no escape from the saying the period of its validity at the present time have ended since a long period because the novel claims that the Al-Qaeda elements got it before 6 years .

Also the experts confirm that the carried atomic bombs require a maintenance and a continuous artistic care on a high level from the vocational or, it will be exposed to the damage in a fast time . And it is excluded that in Ben Laden 's entourage experts are undertaking the nuclear weapons keeping task on such level .And so, the story of the nuclear bags was still wrapped with the ambiguity, and that the interested environments times and times will revert to its excitation until its truth emerges .

 

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Alexander Lebed and Suitcase Nukes

By Carey Sublette

Last changed 18 May 2002


For discussion of the technical feasibility of Lebed's suitcase bombs see Are Suitcase Bombs Possible?.

See The Death of Alexander Lebed.


The Claim

On 7 September 1997, the CBS newsmagazine Sixty Minutes broadcast an alarming story in which former Russian National Security Adviser Aleksandr Lebed claimed that the Russian military had lost track of more than 100 suitcase-sized nuclear bombs, any one of which could kill up to 100,000 people.

"I'm saying that more than a hundred weapons out of the supposed number of 250 are not under the control of the armed forces of Russia," Lebed said in the interview. "I don't know their location. I don't know whether they have been destroyed or whether they are stored or whether they've been sold or stolen, I don't know."

Asked if it were possible that the authorities did know where all the weapons were and simply did not want to tell Lebed, he said, "No."

During May 1997 Lebed said at a private briefing to a delegation of U.S. congressmen that he believed 84 of the one-kiloton bombs were unaccounted for. In the interview with 60 Minutes, conducted in late August, Lebed said he now believed the figure to be more than 100.

Lebed stated that these devices were made to look like suitcases, and could be detonated by one person within half an hour. According to Lebed, he learned of the existence of these weapons developed for special operations only a few years before. While national security adviser to Yeltsin he commissioned a study to report on the whereabouts of these devices. Lebed was fired as national security adviser 17 October 1996 amid intense political jostling while President Boris Yeltsin was awaiting heart surgery. He admits that he had only preliminary results of his investigation at that time, and these results are the basis of his subsequent claims.

The bombs, measuring 60 x 40 x 20 centimeters (24 x 16 x 8 inches), had been distributed among special Soviet military intelligence units belonging to the GRU, Lebed said.

The Reaction

The official response of the US government was given by State Department spokesman James Foley on 5 September (based on CBS' pre-release of the interview transcript).

The government of Russia has assured (us) that it retains adequate command and control of its nuclear arsenal and that appropriate physical security arrangements exist for these weapons and facilities.

We have been assured by the Russian authorities that there is no cause for concern. We believe the assurances we have received,

Foley said.

Russia's atomic energy ministry further rejected Lebed's claims on 10 September.

"We don't know what General Lebed is talking about. No such weapons exist," a ministry spokesman told AFP. "Perhaps he meant old Soviet nuclear artillery shells, which are all being safely guarded."

Interfax news agency quoted a ministry statement as saying Russia's nuclear security system "keeps nuclear warheads under tight control and makes any unauthorized transportation of them impossible."

Lebed has been warning of poor security over nuclear weapons in Russia since at least late 1996, when he met with Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana (28 November 1996). At the time Lebed had called controls over nuclear material in the former Soviet Union "unsatisfactory," making Russia vulnerable at nuclear plants and facilities. Lugar and Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn sponsored a law in 1991 that provides American technical aid to Russia to eliminate nuclear warheads made redundant by arms control pacts, and account for and control nuclear material.

Questions about Lebed's credibility were immediately raised. Abruptly cast out of power, presumably leaving him with grudges, he was likely to be a leading contender in the next presidential election. In elections in June 1996 he placed third, behind Yeltsin.

State Department spokesman Foley said Lebed's allegations carried "not a lot of credibility."

He said US officials have often raised the matter of nuclear security with their Russian counterparts and that "we've been assured by the Russian authorities that there's no cause for concern."

Another stream of criticism about the Sixty Minutes report was directed at the producers of the story. A good account of this was given (perhaps surprisingly) in the Sept. 27 - October 3 issue of TV Guide (pg. 49). The situation was that the producer of the story, Leslie Cockburn, was currently promoting a book she co-wrote with her husband Andrew on the dangers of nuclear terrorism called One Point Safe. In addition the Cockburns were co-producers of a just released, Dreamworks SKG film The Peacemaker. The star commentator of the Sixty Minutes report, ex-National Security Council staffer Jessica Stern, was a paid consultant to The Peacemaker, and allegedly was the model for the character played by Nicole Kidman. Stern was also working on her own book on nuclear terrorism.

While the interlocking self-interests involving the various participants in the preparation of the Sixty Minutes report certainly do not prove any disingenuousness on the part of any of them, it did nothing to bolster the credibility of the claims.

Subsequent Reports

Lebed later testified before the Congressional Military Research and Development Subcommittee at a hearing on 1 October 1997 where he stated that the bombs were made to look like suitcases and could be detonated by one person with less than 30 minutes preparation. Lebed's claim that such devices had been manufactured were corroborated on 3 October by testimony from Russian scientist Alexei Yablokov, former environmental advisor to President Yeltsin while serving on the Russian National Security Council (see www.house.gov/curtweldon/pr_100397.htm). According to the press release from Rep. Curt Weldon's office (R-Pa):

Yablokov stated that he personally knows individuals who produced these suitcase-size nuclear devices under orders from the KGB in the 1970s specifically for terrorist purposes. As a result of their being produced for the KGB, Yablokov has stated that they may not have been taken into account in the Soviet general nuclear arsenal and may not be under the control of the Russian Defense Ministry.

For Yablokov's comments on suitcase nukes and Lebed given on WGBH/Frontline see http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/russia/suitcase/comments.html.

Weldon has further said that the Russian government eventually acknowledged that such weapons had been produced.

In a later floor speech (Security Issues Relating to Russia, 28 October 1999) Weldon asserted that a total of 132 devices had been built with yields from 1 to 10 kilotons, and that 48 were unaccounted for.

For discussion of the technical feasibility of Lebed's suitcase bombs see Are Suitcase Bombs Possible?.

The Burton-Lunev Hearing

A second chapter in the Soviet suitcase bomb affair began with a Congressional hearing on Russian espionage held by Rep. Dan Burton (R-Indiana) on 24 January 2000 in Washington, DC. Soviet ex-colonel and GRU operative Stanislav Lunev was the star witness at the sparsely attended Military Research and Development Subcommittee hearing, chaired by Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Penn.).

Featured at the hearing was a mock-up of a notional briefcase bomb. In his opening comments Weldon described this exhibit:

The model is based on unclassified data on the components in an atomic artillery shell, to see if such a system could be reassembled in a suitcase. Indeed, as it turns out, the physics package, neutron generators, batteries, arming mechanism and other essentials of a small atomic weapon can fit, just barely, in an attache case. The result is a plutonium-fueled gun-type atomic weapon having a yield of one-to-ten kilotons, the same yield range attributed by General Lebed to the Russian "nuclear suitcase" weapon.

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Presumably Weldon's reference to it being "gun-type" refers to it being fired from a gun, not its assembly method.

Mock-up of a hypothetical "suitcase" nuclear bomb, made by Congressional
staffer Peter Pry. It is basically a 105 mm artillery shell device packaged in a
large briefcase.

The key point of the hearing was Lunev's additional allegations that nuclear suitcase bombs may have been pre-positioned in NATO countries during the Cold War, in a manner similar to the way other espionage resources including conventional explosives were known to have been cached.

Weldon summarized Lunev's claims:

Lunev defected to the United States in 1992 after working for more than a decade in the U.S. as a GRU operative. Lunev participated in a GRU program collecting information on the President and senior U.S. political and military leaders so they may be targeted for assassination in the event of war. According to Lunev, small man-portable nuclear weapons "that could be disguised to look like a suitcase" would be employed in a decapitating Russian attack against U.S. leaders and key communications and military facilities. Colonel Lunev claimed that the Russian military and intelligence services still regard the United States as the enemy and consider war with the U.S. as "inevitable."

Colonel Lunev stated that man-portable nuclear weapons may already be located in the United States. Lunev's claim is based on his understanding of GRU doctrine for employing these weapons, which calls for pre-positioning nuclear weapons in the United States during peacetime, before a crisis or war makes penetration of the U.S. more difficult. Lunev testified that he actively supported the GRU program to pre-position man-portable nuclear weapons in the United States by identifying in the U.S. potential hiding places where such weapons could be stored and concealed until needed. Lunev was specially trained to disguise and camouflage such weapons.

One account of the hearing ran as follows:

Much of Lunev's testimony was a repeat of allegations made in his 1998 book in which he said Russia's post-Cold War leaders still see the United States as the enemy.

Lunev, who is in the federal witness protection program, said he masqueraded as a reporter for the Russian news agency ITAR-Tass for three years during which he scouted "drop sites" for weapons caches in the U.S. But he said he has no idea if they were ever planted.

Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., suggested in November that the spy caches might include suitcase-sized nuclear weapons that can produce a 10-kiloton blast.

Weldon, who also testified Monday, stood at one point, holding up a large briefcase and announced: "I have a small atomic demolition device I'd like to bring up to you."

Burton quickly reassured the audience that it was "a mockup" created by the CIA.

Russian officials have confirmed their arsenal includes such devices, but investigators have said there is no evidence they are part of the purported hidden stockpiles.

"Ex-Spy Testifies in Hearing", Linda Deutsch, AP Special Correspondent, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2000; 3:59 a.m. EST

This hearing has most recently reached public attention when it was recounted in the October 2, 2001 edition of the National Enquirer, page 16.


Compiled from the House of Representatives on-line archive, news service releases, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Sixty Minutes program, and (yes) TV Guide and the National Enquirer!

 

 

 


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