Kurt Nimmo: Danger Will Robinson! Osama has Nukes!

"Paul Williams, conspiracy theorist, has a book to sell you. Williams’ book claims Osama has “six or seven” suitcase nukes already in-country and he’s biding his time, waiting for the right moment to light the match. “They want the most bang for the buck, and that is nuclear,” Williams told NewsMax, the right-wing web site that is also pedaling the author’s book, “Osama’s Revenge: The Next 9/11: What the Media and the Government Haven’t Told You.” Williams knows these sort of things because, well, he’s a former FBI consultant. Moreover, Tom Ridge and the Ministry of Homeland Security—no slouches when it comes to pulling fire alarms warning of imminent terrorist attacks—agree with Williams, or at least partially.
Key to this shady op is Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the so-called “father of Pakistan’s nuclear program,” according to out-going spook George Tenet. He is also described as an “Islamic extremist,” that is to say he is a faithful Muslim in much the same way a Southern Baptist is a faithful Christian. According to Williams, Khan sold nuclear technology not only to Libya and North Korea but Osama and al-Qaeda. Exactly how a band of medieval cave dwellers with laptop computers and satellite phones would utilize highly sophisticated nuclear technology—let alone ship nukes undetected into the United States—is not explained. But never mind. All you need to know is Osama has it and he’s itching to blow up a few American cities, preferably right before Bush loses the election.
As evidence that Muslims hate us and want to take us down in a big way, Steward Stogel of NewsMax quotes the one-eyed crackpot, Mullah Omar, as saying his most cherished wish is the “destruction of America.” Of course, considering the US military bombed the heck out of his country and killed a few thousand of his countrymen, this sentiment is understandable. Somebody asked Omar if he wanted to take America out with nukes and he replied, “This is not a matter of weapons. We are hopeful for God’s help. The real matter is the extinction of America. And, God willing, it will fall to the ground.” In other words, according to Omar, all you need is Allah, not nukes.
Even so, the NewsMax article rekindles the old story about the “Chechen Mafia” selling Osama twenty suitcase nukes back in 1996 for $30 million in cash and two tons of Afghan heroin. Just so we understand what a scum ball Osama is, Paul Williams tells NewsMax, “It is the drug money, not the bin Laden family fortune, that is the financial engine for al-Qaida.” Williams forgot to mention that the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI are slime balls too, since they taught the Mujahideen how to produce top-notch heroin. The CIA “helped train a few Afghans and showed them how to make heroin out of opium,” Ahmed Hamid, a heroin smuggler, told Reese Erlich of AlterNet. “They convinced them, this is how you finance your war, like they did with the [Nicaraguan] Contras in the 1980s.” So hot was the CIA on the drug trade in Afghanistan, it assisted Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the sadistic leader of Hezbi-i Islami, who became the region’s largest drug lord. Thanks to Hekmatyar, a CIA favorite in the covert war against the Soviets, heroin addiction in the United States reached new and staggering levels in the 1980s.
But then Williams and Stogel are not concerned with the CIA in Afghanistan or how it created al-Qaeda and the so-called Islamic Terror Network. Instead, we are urged to fret over Russian suitcase nukes sold by the “Chechen Mafia” and smuggled into America, waiting to blow up in Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Miami, Washington, and Rappahannock County, Virginia, according to Williams.
But there is a problem with the Chechen angle to this conspiracy theory. It can be traced back to the extreme right-wing Russian newspaper Zavtra, according to Scott Parrish and John Lepingwell of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. “Zavtra’s correspondent claimed to have met with a former Chechen ‘agent’ who participated in the diversion of two suitcase-size nuclear weapons to Chechnya in 1992. To bolster its claim, Zavtra published the technical details of the devices. However, the technical details appear to be inaccurate, and weaken, rather than strengthen, the report’s credibility.” It appears the rumors of rogue suitcase nukes were floated as a way to strengthen Chechnya’s hand in negotiations with Moscow. Chechen military leader Shamil Basayev eventually grew so irritated by the stories he issued a strong denial.
But wait a minute. It wasn’t simply the Chechen Mafia that sold nukes to Osama. “By 1990 bin Laden had hired hundreds of atomic scientists from the former Soviet Union for $2,000 a month—an amount far greater that their wages in the former Soviet republics,” writes Williams in an earlier book ("Al Qaeda: Brotherhood of Terror"). “They worked in a highly sophisticated and well-fortified laboratory in Kandahar, Afghanistan.” It should be noted here that while Osama was able to get his hands on high-tech nuclear technology, he had to travel to a military hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, to get dialysis treatment.
It should come as no surprise that NewsMax is publishing a review of the fantasist Paul William’s latest book on July 14—it dovetails perfectly with the Bushcon assertion that al-Qaeda will strike big this summer or leading up to the election. “We’ve had intelligence that al-Qaeda intends to launch more attacks against the homeland,” warned Ridge on “Credible reporting now indicates that al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to launch a large scale attack in the United States,” an attack that may well necessitate a postponement of the election in November, or so we are told repeatedly.
Bush and his far right-wing fellow travelers—such as the former FBI agent Paul Williams, NewsMax, and WorldNetDaily—want to scare the American people into believing a gang of cave dwellers are capable of acquiring nuclear material, possessing the technical wherewithal to construct sophisticated nuclear bombs, or were able to purchase nukes from shadowy Chechens long since debunked as anything but rumor-mongers, smuggling “six or seven” nukes into the United States over the Mexican or Canadian borders, placing them undetected in large US cities, and waiting with “Muslim patience” to blow them off so George Bush can be elected and start in earnest in his second term a protracted and bloody war against millions of Muslims in the Middle East.
It is, to say the least, bonkers.
But then, as is more than obvious these days, far too many Americans will believe almost anything the Bushcons feed them."