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| 'Nuclear hellstorm' if bin Laden caught: 9/11 mastermind |
| 2011-04-26 |
| [Emirates 24/7] The criminal mastermind of the 9/11 attacks warned that Al-Qaeda has hidden a nuclear bomb in Europe that will unleash a "nuclear hellstorm" if Osama bin Laden is captured, leaked files revealed on Monday. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told Guantanamo Bay interrogators Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed criminal mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has been held at Guantanamo since 2006 and is to be tried in a military court at the US naval base on Cuba over the attacks. His nuclear threat was revealed in Perfidious Albion's Daily Telegraph newspaper, one of several media outlets which have published the classified assessments of detainees at Guantanamo. Sheikh Mohammed, captured in 2003 in Pakistain, also claims to have personally beheaded US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 with his "blessed right hand" and to have helped in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #10 Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed criminal mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has been held at Guantanamo since 2006 I assume it was in 2006 or shortly thereafter that this threat was revealed. Certainly we were discussing the possibility of suitcase nukes as far back as 2004, here at Rantburg. As I recall, it was decided that Al Qaeda couldn't possibly have the highly trained technicians necessary to perform the frequent maintenance required to keep such things from turning into radioactive paperweights. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-04-26 21:24 |
| #9 Yeah yeah yeah. We heard that one already. Got any new material, junior? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-04-26 14:13 |
| #8 Arab bloviation. To carry out an act, you need both intent and capability. We know they have the intent. If they had the capability, they would have already used it. No sale. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-04-26 12:01 |
| #7 The guy;s lying. It's what he does. |
| Posted by: mojo 2011-04-26 10:43 |
| #6 he's dead, Jim |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-04-26 09:55 |
| #5 An empty threat with all the substance of bovine flatulence: If they ever had it, they'd have used it already. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2011-04-26 09:53 |
| #4 Ha, ha. That is a funny one. Tell me another. What, you'll huff and puff and turn off the anti-matter containment in the warp drive? Oh, now I am really worried. |
| Posted by: rammer 2011-04-26 08:51 |
| #3 Little bit tricky to keep a nuke going that long, especially an amateur one. Even harder would be hiding all that radiation... |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2011-04-26 05:46 |
| #2 I picture some jihadi in a Hamburg flat eating massive amounts of tabouli, falafel and ful with a butt plug super glued in tight, waiting by the phone for the launch code. |
| Posted by: Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-26 02:39 |
| #1 And, even worse things will happen if Bin Laden is not captured! |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-04-26 00:33 |