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Bin Laden's Goal: Kill 4 Million Americans
"It is not a question of if....it is a question of when," claims the author of a controversial new book "Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11: What the Media and the Government Haven't Told You," (Prometheus Books). Paul Williams, an investigative journalist and author, says information he has obtained and some he was given access to all point to another attack by al-Qaida on the U.S. mainland. "I believe that between now and 2005, Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida will attack the U.S. with [stolen] nuclear weapons. I have no doubt about it," says Williams. The allegations were made during an extensive interview with NewsMax.com. Williams says his "intelligence" concludes the most likely means of attack would come in the form of a "suitcase [size] tactical nuclear bomb." "The chatter that everyone is referring to is coming from the nest in Pakistan, a virulent nest in Iran. The chatter is all about nukes being here. ... The best bang for the buck is nuclear; they [al-Qaida] know that." Such bombs are estimated to have an explosive strength of approximately "10 kilotons" and could weigh less than 35 pounds. "With today's technology and the Internet, an experienced person could easily assemble such a bomb in his home garage," Williams explained. A bomb of that strength could easily level Manhattan and spread lethal radiation throughout the New York City metro area, says the author. "It could render Manhattan unlivable for 1,000 years," he estimated. According to Williams, several of the "suitcase nukes" are already inside the U.S. Some could have been smuggled in overland from Canada or Mexico, or shipped from overseas via container ships, he explained. Another, more ominous method, was a throwback to the Cold War era. Williams, quoting Russian military officials, says Moscow secretly slipped into the continental U.S. several suitcase nukes to be activated in case of the breakout of hostilities with Washington. Today, Williams says many of those "sleeper" nukes remain in place because some in the Kremlin still believe a conflict with the U.S. is possible. Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-07-16 |
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