Be careful with this man's briefcase
Not only is Zawahiri not cornered. Now he's boasting again. From AP:
SYDNEY, Australia - Osama bin Laden's terror network claims to have bought ready-made nuclear weapons on the black market in central Asia, the biographer of al-Qaida's No. 2 leader was quoted as telling an Australian television station.In an interview scheduled to be televised on Monday, Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir said Ayman al-Zawahri claimed that "smart briefcase bombs" were available on the black market.
It was not clear when the interview between Mir and al-Zawahri took place.
U.S. intelligence agencies have long believed that al-Qaida attempted to acquire a nuclear device on the black market, but say there is no evidence it was successful.
In the interview with Australian Broadcasting Corp. television, parts of which were released Sunday, Mir recalled telling al-Zawahri it was difficult to believe that al-Qaida had nuclear weapons when the terror network didn't have the equipment to maintain or use them.
"Dr Ayman al-Zawahri laughed and he said `Mr. Mir, if you have $30 million, go to the black market in central Asia, contact any disgruntled Soviet scientist, and a lot of ... smart briefcase bombs are available,'" Mir said in the interview.
"They have contacted us, we sent our people to Moscow, to Tashkent, to other central Asian states and they negotiated, and we purchased some suitcase bombs," Mir quoted al-Zawahri as saying.
Al-Qaida has never hidden its interest in acquiring nuclear weapons.
The U.S. federal indictment of bin Laden charges that as far back as 1992 he "and others known and unknown, made efforts to obtain the components of nuclear weapons."
I'm convinced the Pakistanis have Zawahiri trapped and are now negotiating his release under the cover story that they actually have a local tribal chief and it would be too inflamatory to mess with him further. With Musharraf, watch what he DOES and not what he SAYS.
Don't you know Zawahiri and bin-Laden are special guests of Pakistani Musharraf. It is well known two face Musharraf has given his full backing to al-quaeda.
LOL! So somebody takes their $30 mil, gives them a Zero Haliburton with a few wires, a battery and a timer and some some mildly radioactive waste. The morons think they have a nuke. LOL! I bet they buy their Rolex from a street vendor in NYC. If they have one nuke, how many do we have?? Even if they did manage to get one, and it worked, all it would do is provide us with the reason we need to nuke the area they're suspected to be in, and maybe Mecca and Medina too.
I believe if they had one, the would not talk about it.
Nukes are not turnkey toys, especially the small ones. They require maintenance by people who know what they are doing. If they don't get the maintenance, they basically become very expensive and very heavy briefcases.
i love it
many countries who have billions of dollars in cash cannot seem to get nukes but al qaeda with 30million gets one... yeah right
this stupid lost briefcase nuke garbage all started back when alexander ledbed said this back in the early 90's that russia had lost these briefcase nukes.
i love the "we will use it as a deterent" crap
if they really had them they would have used them already...
OMG i'm actually aggreeing with joseph on something
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yassin is dead thanks to the IDF
Alright Joeseph, way to go.....keep up the good work.
I don't doubt zawahri's cult of death would like to nuke America but there is no future in it.
I'm certain that Washington has put the word out to the Islamofacists that if America is nuked then Mecca and Medina are forfeited. Kinda pointless to hajj to a glowing glass dinner plate.
Congratulations to Israel on the extermination of sheik yassin. I was pleased to hear that this vermin is roasting on a spit in gehenna.
Lugh
Did they remember to smear the successful missiles, etc. with pigfat? This is very important, as it prevents these entities, [yemach shemam v'zichro, may their names and memories be totally erased] from "claiming" to be "martyrs'.
There cannot be "gehenna" for them, unless there is the possibility of T'shuva!
"Gehenna" is far too merciful!
This is like Dr. Evil and his "Death Star" "come mini me, we must go now"