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2004-02-06 Terror Networks
Al-Qaeda not likely to posses nuclear weapons
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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-02-06 12:07:16 AM|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Duh Saddam had a lot more money and opportunities than Osama as did Qaddafi and neither had an operable nuke--so who is being lied to here? OK wait a minute we're going to orange alert just to scare everyone into voting Repooplican LIes Lies and more lies to the sheeple
Posted by NotMike Moore 2004-2-6 4:07:46 AM||   2004-2-6 4:07:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 First!
I wouldn't put it past Dr. Khan to have a ready built bomb as a sort of retirement/safety plan.
Posted by Shipman 2004-2-6 8:12:27 AM||   2004-2-6 8:12:27 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Shipman, That might explain his 'pardon'.
Posted by CrazyFool  2004-2-6 9:17:12 AM||   2004-2-6 9:17:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The article assumes that al-Qaida does not have the infrastructure to fabricate a bomb from scratch. I suppose that analysis is somewhat dependant upon the quality of intelligence. And it says nothing about al-Qaida inheriting a completed bomb from a sympathetic government (those sympathetic governments having recieved all the technology from Pakistan).

As a result, everyone in Pakistan from Musharref down can appreciate that any use of an atomic bomb on the United States by anyone will result in the total destruction of Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad,....that reality might not deter Osama but may induce other states to consider a Ghaddafi conversion.
Posted by john  2004-2-6 9:22:26 AM||   2004-2-6 9:22:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Here's Cox and Forkum's take on the controversy over Iraq's possession of WMD.
Posted by GK 2004-2-6 2:20:09 PM||   2004-2-6 2:20:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 "not likely" is not good enough.
Posted by B 2004-2-6 10:25:47 PM||   2004-2-6 10:25:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Great day at Rantburg.
Posted by Lucky 2004-2-7 12:38:07 AM||   2004-2-7 12:38:07 AM|| Front Page Top

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