The Plutonium Scam

Interesting take on nuclear materials and terrorists. While it's true that terrorists may well not have gotten hold of Plutonium, they most likely have accumulated lower grade industrial forms of radioactive materials. The question is, if the have it why haven't they used it? The answer is rather obvious; they're just not ready to use it. Rather plans are afoot for coordinated attacks on many targets in the West. And if that is so, there will be other types of terrorist attacks (suicide bombings, attacks on infrastructure, and transportation systems etc.) in concert with the dirty bomb attacks. In other words, a full court press to inflict as much panic and disruption as possible in a short period of time.

It's true that several major attacks against America have been thwarted, but there are many Islamic groups working to bring down the West using terror, political and legal means. It's my contention that the various sleeper cells are just waiting for enough groups to be ready to make mass attacks. Once the sleepers come out, individual Muslims will begin making their own ad hoc attacks in conjunction with the main plots. At that point, every Muslim in Western countries will have to decide which side they are on. Given the coercive nature of Islam, and the lifelong indoctrination, the vast majority will join in the Jihad.

FROM STRATEGYPAGE.COM:

The Plutonium Scam
NUCLEAR, BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS

April 27, 2009: Ukrainian police arrested three men trying to sell eight pounds of plutonium, for $10 million. It turned out that they did not have plutonium, but the less radioactive (and not suitable for nuclear weapons) Americium (which could be used for a dirty bomb). The three arrested (a politician and two businessmen from Western Ukraine) had obtained the radioactive material (which was originally produced inside Russia) from someone outside Ukraine.

This incident is typical of dozens that have gone down since the end of the Cold War in 1991. Most of the nuclear material being peddled is not weapons grade. But since 1993, there have been over two dozen instances of smugglers caught with weapons grade uranium or plutonium.

Thefts of non-weapons grade material were reported in many countries around the world since the end of the Cold War. What's amazing is that Islamic terrorists have not yet obtained any of this stuff and used it to set off a "dirty bomb" (explosives surrounded by radioactive material, that makes radioactive the blast area).

Since the end of the Cold War, and the dismantling of over 20,000 nuclear weapons, there is over three tons of additional nuclear fuel sitting around. The stuff cannot be destroyed and remains radioactive for thousands of years. Several terrorist organizations and nations are known to be in the market for this weapons grade nuclear material, and don't care what the source is. Criminal organizations are active in trying to develop the trade. Only an enormous amount of police and intelligence work prevents a more active illegal trade in nuclear material.

But there is a hundred times more, less radioactive, material around. This stuff is used in hospitals and for some manufacturing or food processing work. This is what can be used for dirty bombs. There is a black market for this material as well, but no terrorists have, so far, gotten some and used it.

Unintended Consequences

Thanks to Atlasshrugs, one of the priceless sources in the fight against the Jihad.

Look at this now. An absolutely chilling and accurate scenario of how a terrorist attack could be perpetrated.

Unintended Consequences
FROM DIRECTORBLUE:

Then look at this article which points out the vulnerabilities of commercial nuclear materials used in medical and industrial roles.

Seize the Cesium
FROM NYTIMES.COM:

By PETER D. ZIMMERMAN, JAMES M. ACTON and M. BROOKE ROGERS Published: August 1, 2007
London
THE death of Alexander Litvinenko, the former K.G.B. officer who drank polonium-210 in a cup of tea, underscored the damage that radiological terrorists could do. The most familiar possible situations involve the detonation of a dirty bomb, a modest amount of high explosive mated to a container of radioactive material. But radioactive material inside the human body is far more dangerous than a dirty bomb.
Most analysts believe that about 10 people would die from radiation poisoning after a dirty bomb attack. Others believe that the only people likely to receive a lethal dose of radiation from a dirty bomb would already be dead from the blast. A perfectly feasible terrorist attack using the ingestion, inhalation or immersion of radioactive material, on the other hand, would be almost certain to kill hundreds. We call attacks of these kinds I-cubed attacks (for ingestion, inhalation and immersion). Such attacks can be sneaky, unaccompanied by a flash and bang.
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Media Alters Bin Laden's Message

Photo: Dr. Paul Williams and Mr.Hamid Mir of GEO TV
This is really disturbing. Once again the MSM just can't face the fact that Islamists are bent on destroying America and the west. The article below from Atlas Shrugs describes the real meaning of Bin Ladens latest message. This is getting outrageous. that our own media who are supposed to report facts to us without bias continues to behave hysterically and refuse to acknowledge the imminent threat that radical Islam presents.
Here is a link to the whole Bin Laden transcript so you can make your own determination from foxnews.com.
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FROM ATLASSHRUGS:
Dr. Paul Williams: Media Alters Bin Laden's Message
When I read the transcript, I thought this is a call to war.
Bin Laden said in no uncertain words, convert or die. And I wasn't the only one in the blogosphere. The media is talking about bad dye jobs but there is a serious message here. Here is an Atlas exclusive written by Dr. Paul Williams outlining the media deceit, taqiya.
REAL WARNING RECEIVES NO AIRING ON MAJOR NEWS OUTLETS
LEADING PAKISTANI BROADCASTER CHARGES AMERICAN MEDIA WITH ALTERING BIN LADEN'S LATEST MESSAGE
By Paul L.Williams, Ph.D., Hugh Cort, M.D., and Michael Travis


The American media missed the most important part of Osama bin Laden's videotape message, according to Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir.[http://hamidmir.com]
Mr. Mir, the only reporter to interview bin Laden in the wake of 9/11, said that the text of bin Laden's address may have been redacted by government sources since a significant portion of it was not aired by major American news outlets.
In the unaltered message, according to Mr. Mir, bin Laden says: "We must sacrifice our lives to attack the enemy." This statement, Mr. Mir points out, is a call for suicide attacks to take place throughout the United States - - a call that was erased from official transcripts of the videotape.
These suicide attacks, Mr. Mir believes, may involve the use of radiological devices and/or tactical nuclear weapons.
Mr. Mir said that he had been informed by leaders of the Taliban in Afghanistan that al Qaeda's long-planned American Hiroshima - - a nuclear attack on seven to ten U.S. cities - - will occur in 2008 but could come sooner.
In June, ABC News reported that large teams of al Qaeda suicide bombers had been sent to the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Germany to launch attacks at strategic sites. The report contained videos of hundreds of recruits for these missions at a graduation ceremony in Pakistan. Some of the recruits were as young as 12.
In August, four Islamic terrorists were arrested in Germany for planning to strike German airports and US bases in commemoration of the sixth anniversary of 9/11. It is important to note that those arrested were blonde, German born converts, whose appearance allowed them to operate "under the radar" of traditional profiling techniques and counter-terrorism protocols.
Mr. Mir has long sounded the alarm of al Qaeda's plan to launch an American Hiroshima.
"As far as I know, they smuggled three suitcase nukes from Russia to Europe," Mr. Mir maintained last year. "They smuggled many kilos of enriched uranium inside America for their dirty bomb projects. They said in 1999 that they must have material for more than six dirty bombs in America. They tested at least one dirty bomb in the Kunar province of Afghanistan in 2000. They have planned an attack bigger than 9-11, even before the attacks on the World Trade Centre.9-11 took place. Osama bin Laden trained 42 fighters to destroy the American economy and military might. Nineteen were used on 9-11, 23 are still 'sleeping' inside America waiting for a call from bin Laden."
Mr. Mir said al-Qaeda operatives told him that tactical nuclear weapons were smuggled over the Mexican border before Sept. 11, 2001.
Asked why al-Qaeda hasn't used nuclear weapons it already possesses, Mir said: "They are waiting for the proper time. They want the U.S. to be involved in a mass killing of Muslims, so that they will have some justification. That is what I was told by a top al-Qaeda leader in the Kunar Mountains of Afghanistan."
Mr. Mir, whose biography of bin Laden is expected to appear before Christmas, says that the al Qaeda chieftain is no longer in Pakistan but has relocated to a remote mountainous area within the Khost and Paktia provinces of eastern Afghanistan.
These and ten other Afghani provinces, Mir maintains, are now under the rule of the Taliban.
The pipeline for jihadi supply troops, he insists, now runs from the United Arab Emirates through Iran and into southern Afghanistan.
The Iranian-Taliban alliance is a new, unique and disturbing development in the war on terror. When the Taliban came to power in 1996, Mullah Omar and his army were decried by the Shiite mullahs in Iran for the massacre of thousands of Shiite Hazaras and Panjshiri Tajiks. Iran began to send money and arms to Ahmed Shah Massoud and his opposition army of Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazaras that became known as the "United Front" or "Northern Alliance." The Russians also came to the support Massoud's army to protect the interests of Uzbekistan.
The Northern Alliance continued to receive support from Iran and Russia until the launching of Operation Enduring Freedom (the codename for the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan) Oct. 7, 2001. Overnight, the Iranian and Russian advisers to Massoud became replaced by CIA operatives and Green Beret A team members.
A major setback in the war on terror, according to Mir, is that Iran and Russia are now allied in Afghanistan on the side of their old enemy.
The first major indication of Iran's change of heart toward the Taliban came in the wake of the bombing of Tora Bora in December 2001, when Mullah Omar and hundreds of his soldiers and al-Qaida agents, scaled the mountains between the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, cut through the southern provinces of Afghanistan and headed west to Iran, where they found safe refuge, thanks to the intervention of Imad Mugniyah and the other leaders of Hezbollah. The newly arrived guests included such luminaries as Saad bin Laden, Osama's eldest son; Yaaz bin Sifat and Saif al-Adel, al-Qaida military planners; and Mohammed Islam Haani, the mayor of Kabul under the Taliban. Within Iran, they were placed in luxurious safehouses under the protection of SAVAMA, the Iranian intelligence service.
When the war on terror moved to Iraq, Iran came to serve as a base of operations for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other al-Qaida field commanders to mount attacks on the occupying armies.
This monumental event – the union between Sunni and Shiite – remained largely ignored by Western observers.
While the war dragged on in Iraq, Mullah Omar and other Taliban leaders returned to Pakistan, gained thousands of new recruits, secured control of much of the tribal areas, and launched the re-conquest of Afghanistan.
The Taliban soldiers are now accompanied by advisers and regulars from the Iranian army and, according to Mir, within Afghanistan, Mullah Omar has received visits from his old friend and fellow jihadi, Osama bin Laden.
Because of this newly forged alliance, Mr. Mir speculates that the American Hiroshima may occur as soon as the Bush Administration launches an offensive against Iran to prevent the Shiite country from becoming a member of the nuclear club.

DIRTY BOMB THREAT

Once again Gadahn the rat is in the news. This time threatening dirty bomb attacks on NY, Los Angeles and Miami.

DEBKAfile Exclusive: New Al Qaeda threat of radioactive truck attacks naming New York, Los Angeles, Miami
August 12, 2007, 8:48 AM (GMT+02:00)

FROM DEBKA.COM
The threat was picked up by DEBKAfile’s monitors from a rush of electronic chatter on al Qaeda sites Thursday, Aug. 8.
The al Qaeda communications accuse the Americans of the grave error of failing to take seriously the videotape released by the American al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gaddahn last week. “They will soon realize their mistake when American cities are hit by quality operations,” said one message.
Another said the attacks would be carried out “by means of trucks loaded with radio-active material against America’s biggest city and financial nerve center.”
A third message mentioned New York, Los Angeles and Miami as targets. It drew the answer: “The attack, with Allah’s help, will cause an economic meltdown, many dead, and a financial crisis on a scale that compels the United States to pull its military forces out of many parts of the world, including Iraq, for lack of any other way of cutting down costs.”
There is also a message which speaks obliquely of the approaching attacks easing the heavy pressure America exerts on countries like Japan, Cuba and Venezuela.
DEBKAfile’s counter-terror sources and monitors say there is no way of gauging for sure how serious these threats are, how real, or whether they are part of a war of nerves to give the Gaddahn tape extra mileage. But it is important to note that the exchange of messages took place over al Qaeda’s internal Internet sites and that they contained the threat of radioactive terror and specific American cities for the first time after a long silence on these subjects.
In addition, a growing number of clips has been disseminated of late over al Qaeda sites instructing the faithful how to design remote-controlled gliders, pack them with explosives and launch them against predetermined targets.

GADAHN THE RAT

Traitorus coward Adam Gadahn continues to work hand in hand with some of the most muderous people on earth.

Dirty rat behind dirty bomb scare
Raised by hippie parents, then turned to hate & radical Islam
BY CELESTE KATZ
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, August 12th 2007, 4:00 AM
FROM NYDAILYNEWS.COM:
Adam Gadahn...
...also known as Azzam the American.
The homegrown terrorist at the center of an Al Qaeda dirty bomb threat against the city is the first American charged with treason in more than 50 years and lives with a $1 million bounty on his head.
Adam Yahiye Gadahn grew up the son of California hippies. He lived on a sprawling goat farm at the foot of the San Jacinto mountains. He is the grandson of a Jewish doctor.
He dabbled in death metal music as a teen, but by all accounts had a peaceful childhood until he embraced a virulent strain of Islam to fill a void in his life.
Gadahn was 17 when he announced his conversion and began frequenting an Islamic center where authorities say he came under the influence of foreign-born Islamic radicals.
As a U.S. citizen, he represents a growing breed of homegrown extremists who have turned against their country.
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New York Dirty Bomb?

NY Traffic and Weather: Dirty
UNCONFIRMED REPORTS OF DIRTY BOMB ATTEMPT IN NY CITY
FROM ATLAS SHRUGS:
There are several reports tonight that New York City police are increasing activity in Mid-Town Manhattan and at bridges and tunnels in response to unconfirmed reports that there might be a nuclear device coming into the city.
Channel 11 news just reported that there is talk of extending police shifts. They showed film of police searching vehicles near Penn Station.
Channel 9 My News and CBS Radio also carried story. See myFoxNY
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Former CIA Director: Terrorist Strike Within U.S. Real Threat

This is an eye opening interview with James Woolsey on the likelihood of a terrorist attack(s) on the US in the near future. Folks, it's coming and all the denial and hoping it won't will only have the effect of making the aftermath even worse due to not being prepared. Do your homework, make plans and be ready. Once the Shiite hits the fan it’ll be too late to top off your gas tank or get that extra loaf of bread and gallon of milk. Let this article be your guide. Wake up and be ready.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, the next attack will be a multi faceted thing by Jihadi of many ilk’s. Once a major attack begins, others not even aware of it will then join in in a chain reaction. Every homegrown Jihadi, every sleeper cell biding it’s time will move to make it‘s mark in the great Jihad against the great Satin (us folks, us).

Things are coming to a head. Al Qaeda can’t keep waiting to move. It’s being nibbled away around the world and will have to attack soon to regain its momentum. There are more and more small events taking place at an accelerating rate.

So take heed, take precautions and plan for a long haul against a fanatical enemy who is already well entrenched here.
Former CIA Director: Terrorist Strike Within U.S. Real Threat
Kenneth R. Timmerman
Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2007
FROM NEWSMAX:
Former CIA Director R. James Woolsey tells NewsMax in an exclusive interview that terrorists could strike the American homeland — possibly with a weapon of mass destruction — this summer or early fall.
He also warns that if Iran fails to comply with international efforts to stop its nuclear weapons program, the U.S. will have no other option than to bomb it.
"I think the threat of a serious attack in the next few months is very real," Woolsey said. A terrorist strike with a dirty bomb or with biological weapons was "a real possibility."
Woolsey's comments echo those of FBI Director Robert Mueller, who told NewsMax in May that al-Qaida's paramount goal is clear: to detonate a nuclear device that would kill hundreds of thousands of Americans.

Terrorists Plotting Now
While Woolsey doubted terrorists would be able to acquire a nuclear explosive device, he warned that terrorists were trying to acquire one, either on the black market from the former Soviet Union, or from Iran or North Korea.
The former CIA director said he favored "really tough sanctions" on Iran for another few months, but if that failed to bring Iran's nuclear weapons program to a halt, the United States had no other choice but to bomb Iran's nuclear sites.
He also blasted those in the State Department who believe we can convince the Iranians through negotiations to stop their nuclear programs. "I've never thought there's a chance in hell of that," he said.
Asked what three things we need to do to make America more safe, Woolsey said that the first and most important was not to tie the president's hands when it came to intelligence collection.
Efforts by Democrats to require court orders to intercept international communications amounted to "shooting ourselves in the foot," he added.
More Pressure on Iran
Next, he said the United States absolutely must step up pressure on Iran, by focusing on Iran's weak economic underbelly and the wellspring of popular discontent with the regime.
In the longer term, Woolsey said it was essentially that the U.S. beef up its military forces and to prepare Americans psychologically and politically for a long war with radical Islamic terrorists.
"I think this is a long war, and we need to treat it as such, and go on a full war-footing," he said.
Woolsey had plenty more to say on the topic of Iran, wrapping up the interview with a list of things needed to keep the United States safe.
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