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Terror Networks
Debka - Bin Laden May Have Nuclear Material
2004-02-09
Way EFL - long article

In a special investigation,DEBKA-Net-Weekly learned from well-placed intelligence sources that the millionaire terror master did procure a supply of uranium-235 six months before his Al Qaeda suicides carried out their September 11 strikes in America. The uranium was delivered following an extraordinary deal between the most wanted terrorist in the world and one of the world’s most dangerous mobsters, a shadowy Ukrainian-born Jew called Semion Mogilevich, who rules over an arms-trafficking, money-laundering, drug-running, prostitution and graft empire.

Sources who spoke to DEBKA-Net-Weekly on condition of anonymity report that for a princely sum estimated at US$40 - 75 million, Bin Laden bought between 12 and 15 kilos of uranium-235, all of which came from Russia or some Central Asian Muslim republic.

If this is true, the master terrorist has enough fissionable material to build between 3 and 5 nuclear devices.

Posted by:Yosemite Sam

#5  12-15 kilos won't even one nuke. For a gun-type uranium bomb with heavy tamper, you just have barely enough to make a bomb, and that is with some technical sophistication. Oh, by the way, boys, keep your little genie stacked in at least two piles, or things will get a little hot in the machine shop.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-2-9 10:11:17 PM  

#4  They MAY have intevented time travel.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-2-9 7:22:44 PM  

#3  It takes about 25 kilos of Uranium to make a single bomb.
Posted by: phil_b   2004-2-9 6:39:48 PM  

#2  maybe he already did.
Posted by: B   2004-2-9 6:37:37 PM  

#1  HUGE grain of salt. On the bright side, Osama might die of radiation poisoning
Posted by: Charles   2004-2-9 3:39:00 PM  

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