AMERICAN HIROSHIMA
by J. R. Nyquist
I recently reviewed a video titled “Last Best Chance,” starring Fred Thompson and Jon Gries. It is a dramatization of the national security predicament of a country that puts economic interests ahead of national survival, openly and unabashedly; that is to say, it examines the vulnerability of the United States to a terrorist nuclear assault. The story line is based on fact. We are told that al Qaeda has proposed a nuclear option codenamed “American Hiroshima.” Once terrorists acquire nuclear weapons there is no way to prevent their use against American cities because the U.S. government cannot close the border or inspect every crate shipped into the country. America’s economic dependence on foreign trade and open borders is effectively sacrosanct. You cannot slow trade to a crawl through inspections. You cannot stop the influx of illegal immigrants. No politician would dare oppose what businesses everywhere view as economic necessity. What I call “the primacy of economics” in America trumps national security. The argument has been made, and is unconsciously put forward every day, that we might as well be dead if we cannot keep the economic party going (i.e., the good times). An economic slump is unacceptable. A ceiling to growth is unimaginable. And yet, is continued and constant economic growth a realistic expectation? The nuclear destruction of cities and the unleashing of biological weapons may, at this juncture, be an equally realistic expectation. But few (if any) players in business or government would act on this later expectation.
Does al Qaeda have nuclear weapons? In 1999 terrorism expert Yossef Bodansky said yes. More recently, Joseph Farah and Paul Williams have claimed that intelligence sources, including military intelligence sources, say the same thing. The story consists of the following incredible details (which have undoubtedly been spoon-fed to Western and Arab intelligence agencies). What appears plausible on the surface, and is apparently believed by U.S. officials, simultaneously serves a peculiar agenda:
(1) Russian nuclear weapons are vulnerable to theft. This is because Russia has "fallen apart," and the only remedy is huge infusions of cash from the West. Therefore, America is subjected to a curious variation on “nuclear blackmail.” If America doesn’t pay Russia tens of billions of dollars to secure its nuclear weapons then American cities will not be safe from nuclear attack. Strangely, the Russians themselves suddenly (after decades of tight security) lack the will to secure their own nuclear weapons and don’t seem particularly worried that Chechen terrorists will use them on Moscow or other cities.
(2) Furthermore, the point is underscored that we backed the wrong side in the Afghan War (during the 1980s). Almost humorously, we are now shown (though not explicitly told) that we should have backed the communists instead of the Muslim rebels. We are told, over and over again, that the same folks who fought the Red Army in Afghanistan might nuke the United States. Even though we supplied the Afghan resistance, even though we fed them and gave billions in humanitarian assistance, we’re the ones at the receiving end of the nuclear terror. Muslim freedom fighters don’t want revenge on Moscow for killing over a million Afghans. Erratically, they want revenge for all the help we’ve given Muslims in Afghanistan, Kosovo, the West Bank and Gaza. (See President Bush’s so-called “roadmap to peace,” which some fear is a roadmap to civil war in Israel.)
(3) Bodansky, Williams and others have suggested that al Qaeda acquired Soviet-built nuclear weapons from Chechens who pointedly failed to reserve a bomb for themselves (i.e., to assure their own independence from Moscow).
(3) Although Russian nukes cannot be detonated without special activation codes known only to the Russian president and the chief of the Russian General Staff, the Islamists somehow have the means to detonate the "stolen" warheads. We are told that bin Laden & Co. have hired Russian nuclear specialists and Spetsnaz commandos trained in the deployment, storage and detonation of nuclear warheads. So even if we catch Russians preparing a nuclear attack on U.S. soil we are nonetheless obliged to assume that bin Laden is ultimately responsible (instead of Moscow).
(4) The motive for a nuclear attack on America involves America’s supposed responsibility for millions of Muslim deaths. And yet, there is no concern for Muslims murdered by Russia and China in Central Asia, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Azerbaijan, etc. Also, there doesn’t appear to be an al Qaeda plan for nuking India – the main nuclear rival of militant Islam in South Asia. The geographical remoteness of America, the American liberation of Muslims from the secular dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, and America’s role as a leading customer of Muslim oil are somehow overlooked in the “hate equation” that propels al Qaeda’s nuclear plot.
(5) According to some U.S. politicians and pundits, America’s nuclear missiles must be taken off alert. This, they say, is necessary because a nuclear terror attack might be mistaken for an attack from Russia. If Russian-built nukes are detonated in American cities Russians should be the last people we suspect of foul play. In fact, the “collapse” of the Soviet Union has largely shielded us from such suspicions in the first place.
The hypnotic suggestion of 9/11 continues to be reinforced with each act of subsequent terrorism. We are fighting a “new” type of enemy. The Russians are friends while the Islamists are the new enemy. Of course, we cannot properly fight such a war (for economic reasons, and for reasons of political correctness). One must set aside, as well, George Tenet’s description of the post-Cold War purge of the KGB as “pure window dressing.” Intelligence journalists Gordon Thomas and David Dastych recently quoted an internal MI5 document as stating: “There is a strong probability that some … (KGB) agents have been recruited by al Qaeda.”
That may be so, but who actually recruited whom?
FSB (KGB) defector Alexander Litvinkenko, author of the book Blowing Up Russia: Terror From Within, has publicly said that al Qaeda’s number two man, Ayman al-Zawahiri was trained by the FSB (KGB) in Russia. In an interview with Rzeczpospolita (a Polish publication), Litvinenko stated that the “originator of the acts of terrorism in London was standing near Tony Blair.” And there, at the G8 summit, next to the British Prime Minister was former KGB Lt. Col. Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation. According to Litvinenko, “[there is] only one organization which has made terrorism the main tool of solving political problems.” And that organization, he said, “is the Russian special services.” The KGB trained terrorists all over the world. “The specially trained and prepared agents of the KGB,” said Litvinenko, “have organized murders and explosions, including explosions on tankers, the hijacking of passenger jets, attacks on diplomats, as well as state and commercial organizations worldwide.” Litvinenko added: “The bloodiest terrorists of the world were or are agents of the KGB-FSB. They are well known [like] Carlos Ilyich Ramiros, nicknamed ‘the Jackal,’ the late Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein … [and others].” According to Litvinenko, “All of them were trained by the KGB, received money from there, weapons and explosives….”
Global terrorism has, indeed, been a long-term Russian operation. In a book by Joseph Douglass, Jr. titled Red Cocaine we find a description of this long-term operation as described by a communist bloc defector (Jan Sejna): “The basic revolutionary strategy took shape in the years 1954 to 1956. As detailed by Sejna, there were five principles thrusts in the modernized [Russian] strategy.” According to Douglass, “The second step [in this strategy] was the actual training of terrorists. Training for international terrorism actually began as ‘fighters for liberation.’ The term ‘national liberation’ was coined to replace revolutionary war movement as a two-way deception: to provide a nationalistic cover for what was basically an intelligence operation and to provide a label that was semantically separated from the communist revolutionary war movement.” [Pages 10-11.]
Litvinenko is a recent defector from Russia’s special services. He is telling us that the KGB has emerged on top in Russia, and it is still following a Cold War plan. Consequently, the Chechen War was both a pretext for Putin’s dictatorship, a provocation and an alibi. Moscow says it is fighting Islamic terrorism when in fact it was the primary author of Islamic terrorism. Litvinenko asks the following rhetorical question: “Would the Russian special services train and finance people and groups that were not supervised by the Lubyanka and did not serve the interests of the Kremlin?” According to Litvinenko, “Each act of terrorism made by these people was carried out … under the rigid control of the KGB of the USSR. And it is not casual after the disintegration of the USSR….” Then Litvinenko dropped a bombshell: “The second person in the terrorist organization al Qaeda, who allegedly organized the series of explosions in London, Ayman al-Zawahiri, is an old agent of the FSB.”
© 2005 Jeffrey R. Nyquist
Al-Qaida nukes already in U.S.
FROM JOSEPH FARAH'S G2 BULLETIN
Al-Qaida nukes already in U.S.
Terrorists, bombs smuggled across Mexico border by MS-13 gangsters
Editor's note: Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin is an online, subscription intelligence news service from the creator of WorldNetDaily.com – a journalist who has been developing sources around the world for almost 30 years. The subscription price for the premium newsletter has been slashed in half and is now available for only $9.95 per month.
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
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."
Al-Qaida nukes already in U.S.
Terrorists, bombs smuggled across Mexico border by MS-13 gangsters
Editor's note: Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin is an online, subscription intelligence news service from the creator of WorldNetDaily.com – a journalist who has been developing sources around the world for almost 30 years. The subscription price for the premium newsletter has been slashed in half and is now available for only $9.95 per month.
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
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."
Behind the Terror...
“[Widespread terrorist and sabotage operations in advance of World War III] are known officially in the GRU as the 'preparatory period,' and unofficially as the 'overture.' The overture is a series of large and small operations the purpose of which is, before actual military operations begin, to weaken the enemy's morale, create an atmosphere of suspicion, fear and uncertainty, and divert the attention of the enemy's armies and police forces to a huge number of different targets, each of which may be the object of the next attack.The overture is carried out by agents of the secret services of the Soviet satellite countries and by mercenaries recruited by intermediaries. The principal method employed at this stage is 'gray terror,' that is, a kind of terror which is not conducted in the name of the Soviet Union. The Soviet secret services do not at this stage leave their visiting cards, or leave other people's cards. The terror is carried out in the name of already existing extremist groups not connected in any way with the Soviet Union, or in the name of fictitious organizations.”
—VIKTOR SUVOROV, Spetsnaz
—VIKTOR SUVOROV, Spetsnaz
DHS Declassifies Northwest Flight 327 Report
Sunday
27 May 2007
DHS Declassifies Northwest Flight 327 Report
By Annie Jacobsen in category Federal Air Marshals, Dry Runs and Probes
The Department of Homeland Security has declassified the Inspector General's report on Northwest Flight 327 — a flight which I was a passenger on back in June of 2004. It took the US government two years and eleven months to confirm what I have been writing since the flight landed — in my 28-part series for WomensWallStreet.com and in Terror in The Skies, Why 9/11 Could Happen Again (Spence 2005) i.e:
The flight was a dry run for a future terrorist attack involving planes.
The Federal Air Marshal Service grossly mishandled what happened during the flight.
The Syrians terrified flight crew and passengers.
The Federal Air Marshal Service grossly mismanaged what happened after the flight landed in Los Angeles.
The Federal Air Marshal Service attempted to cover up their egregious incompetence by issuing false statements and misleading the public about the severity of what happened on the flight.
Audrey Hudson of The Washington Times has a Page One article today, Sunday, "More Details on Flight 327 Released." According to the paper, Hudson will report further on the DHS declassified investigation on Wednesday.
The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) obtained a copy of the fifty-one page report through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) which you can download from their website.
Ironic note: DHS now refers to the group as a "band" (in quotes) because the Syrians were not a band — that was their cover. The declassified DHS report also confirms what I reported last month: that the Syrians from Flight 327 were involved in an earlier dry run — on January 28, 2004. The FBI had flagged this dry run into their incident base six months before Northwest 327 took flight.
The Washington Times: Blogs a buzz over Flight 327.
https://www.theaviationnation.com/documents/OIG_Report_Flight_327.pdf
27 May 2007
DHS Declassifies Northwest Flight 327 Report
By Annie Jacobsen in category Federal Air Marshals, Dry Runs and Probes
The Department of Homeland Security has declassified the Inspector General's report on Northwest Flight 327 — a flight which I was a passenger on back in June of 2004. It took the US government two years and eleven months to confirm what I have been writing since the flight landed — in my 28-part series for WomensWallStreet.com and in Terror in The Skies, Why 9/11 Could Happen Again (Spence 2005) i.e:
The flight was a dry run for a future terrorist attack involving planes.
The Federal Air Marshal Service grossly mishandled what happened during the flight.
The Syrians terrified flight crew and passengers.
The Federal Air Marshal Service grossly mismanaged what happened after the flight landed in Los Angeles.
The Federal Air Marshal Service attempted to cover up their egregious incompetence by issuing false statements and misleading the public about the severity of what happened on the flight.
Audrey Hudson of The Washington Times has a Page One article today, Sunday, "More Details on Flight 327 Released." According to the paper, Hudson will report further on the DHS declassified investigation on Wednesday.
The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) obtained a copy of the fifty-one page report through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) which you can download from their website.
Ironic note: DHS now refers to the group as a "band" (in quotes) because the Syrians were not a band — that was their cover. The declassified DHS report also confirms what I reported last month: that the Syrians from Flight 327 were involved in an earlier dry run — on January 28, 2004. The FBI had flagged this dry run into their incident base six months before Northwest 327 took flight.
The Washington Times: Blogs a buzz over Flight 327.
https://www.theaviationnation.com/documents/OIG_Report_Flight_327.pdf
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