August 4, 2005

Briefcase Nukes Already Inside the U.S.?

Worldnetdaily.com has been running a series of articles that claim that al-Qaeda already has nuclear weapons inside the U.S. and is waiting to detonate them.

Joseph Farah writes, “At least two fully assembled and operational nuclear weapons are believed to be hidden in the United States already, according to G2 Bulletin intelligence sources and an upcoming book, ‘The al-Qaida Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming Apocalypse,’ by former FBI consultant Paul L. Williams."

He continues," The cities chosen as optimal targets are New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Boston, and Washington, D.C. New York and Washington top the preferred target list for al-Qaida leadership.”

And Farah says August 6 , the 60th anniversary of the American nuclear attack on Hiroshima, is a date on which al-Qaeda could choose to set them off.

But now the influential intelligence Web site Stratfor.com has weighed in, attacking the articles and the whole notion that al-Qaeda could hide a nuke in the U.S. or that it possesses the technical prowess to set one off, especially one that was stolen from say, the Russians.

We shall see.