Does Al Qaeda really have suitcase nukes in the US?
In short, no.
Paul L Williams claims in a new book, called Osama’s Revenge, that:
al-Qaida has been planning a spectacular nuclear attack using six or seven suitcase nuclear bombs that would be detonated simulantaneously in U.S. cities.
“They want the most bang for the buck, and that is nuclear,” Williams told NewsMax.
“I expect such an attack would come between now and the end of 2005,” the author said.…
Williams’ contention is not far from what U.S. intelligence believes, a source close to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has told NewsMax.
(*) If that were really true, then Williams has surely shared the source for this information with the FBI already, and the federal government already knows all about it.
If there were solid evidence that the Enemy had suitcase nuclear bombs in the US, the top news of the day would not be Martha Stewart’s trip to the slammer. It would be the declaration of martial law in the US and the house-to-house searching of suspicious areas by government agents.
If we are really talking about nuclear weapons in enemy hands on US soil, survival would quickly become the ultimate law.
As that is not what we are seeing, this book is something that I would look at with the utmost of suspicion. Hence, I do not find Williams’s claim to be warranted.
I haven’t actually seen a copy of the book, but the severity of the claim as relayed by Newsmax needs to be addressed promptly.