-Caveat Lector-
Is bin Laden
a nuclear power?
� 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
By JR Nyquist
According to Yosef Bodansky, a researcher attached to
the
House counter-terrorism task force, a Middle East
terrorist is
now believed to have as many as 20 suitcase nuclear
bombs. In
addition, this same terrorist is alleged to possess
biological and
chemical weapons of mass destruction.
Supposedly, Chechnyan rebels managed to steal nuclear
suitcase bombs from the Russian military. These bombs
were
then smuggled out of Russia and sold to Osama bin
Laden, an
international fugitive and terrorist hiding in
Afghanistan.
Readers may recall that Osama bin Laden is a Saudi
national
accused of masterminding the Aug. 7, 1998, bombings of
the
U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. These
bombings
killed 224 people and left over 5,000 injured.
Blaming Osama bin Laden for the African bombings,
President
Clinton launched an air strike against bin Laden's
Afghan base
camp. This air strike, as Clinton's luck would have
it, came
shortly after he publicly apologized for the Monica
Lewinsky
affair. Clinton also ordered an air strike against a
pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, claiming it was a
chemical
weapons factory.
More recently, Clinton Administration officials have
accused
Osama bin Laden of plotting bomb attacks against the
United
States Embassy and two consulates in India. The U.S.
government has offered five million dollars to anyone
who
provides information leading to bin Laden's arrest or
conviction.
In Afghanistan bin Laden is considered a war hero for
risking
his life in the struggle against Moscow's client
armies.
Therefore, it is not surprising that many Afghans were
dismayed at the idea that bin Laden was a threat to
America.
The pro-Taliban Shariat newspaper noted, "America is a
superpower with a strong economy and a strong
political
system, so why does it have such an obsession for a
person
who is very weak?"
The Taliban judiciary began its own formal
investigation into
U.S. claims that bin Laden was waging a war of terror
against
the United States. The three-week inquiry was headed
by
Afghanistan's chief justice, Noor Muhammed Saqib.
Chief
Justice Saqib asked the U.S. government to provide
evidence
so that he could act, but the United States offered no
evidence
at all. "It is their shame that they have been
silent," said an
angry Saqib. "Anything that happens now anywhere in
the
world they blame Osama, but the reality is in the
proof -- they
have not given us any."
At his Friday press conference, Bodanksy cited Russian
and
Saudi intelligence sources to support his stunning
allegations.
He also said that Osama bin Laden was attempting to
recruit
"former Soviet special forces" to operate the bombs
behind
enemy lines.
Bodansky's sources, however, are suspect. One must
always
treat the claims of Russian officials with near-total
skepticism.
Can we really believe that the anti-Soviet bin Laden
would work
closely with former Soviet commandos who were his
deadly
enemies in the past? And what sort of Russian special
forces
soldier would assist an anti-Russian terrorist? It is
doubtful
that any such person has ever existed in the ranks of
Soviet or
Russian special forces. In the last analysis, it is
more likely that
Bodansky has been fed false information.
The same goes for the Saudis, who have probably been
duped
by Russian intelligence agents. The idea that a minor
terrorist,
confined to the wilds of Afghanistan, has obtained a
nuclear
arsenal that would be the envy of Libya or Iraq --
with their
billions -- is absurd on its face. Besides this, the
sophistication
required to effectively handle weapons of mass
destruction
belongs only to governments that have billions of
dollars and
armies of dedicated technical specialists. The notion
that a
Saudi millionaire-terrorist -- not even a billionaire
-- isolated by
his enmity for American and Russia, could achieve so
much
with so little, is more than suspicious. It is
ridiculous. That
being said, Osama bin Laden is a convenient diversion
for Bill
Clinton and for Clinton's "friends" in the Kremlin.
The most alarming thing about the bin Laden story is
the way it
helps the nuclear war strategy of the Kremlin.
According to the
highest ranking defector from the Russian General
Staff,
Colonel Stanislav Lunev, a surprise Russian nuclear
strike
would begin with the deployment of 7,000 Spetsnaz
commandos to the United States. These would enter the
U.S. as
civilians. At the same time, nuclear suitcase bombs
together
with biological and chemical weapons would be smuggled
into
the U.S. along the same routes used to smuggle
narcotics.
The purpose of initiating a general nuclear war with
suitcase
nuclear bombs involves the need for "diversion" and
"disruption" of U.S. command and control. According to
former
CIA analyst Peter Vincent Pry, "Strategic surprise
would be
achieved if the ... [Russians] could deprive the
United States of
strategic warning of their intention to attack."
The purpose of detonating nuclear suitcase bombs, and
of
unleashing biological and chemical weapons within the
U.S.,
would be to simulate a terrorist campaign by
non-Russian
forces. The United States, assuming it was under
attack from
ordinary terrorists, would not suspect the true
purpose.
Russian Spetsnaz would target U.S. command and control
and
early warning systems, as well as other targets that
would
create maximum confusion.
The United States early warning network consists of
three DSP
launch detection satellites and six radars. The
satellites are
presently in geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic,
Pacific,
and Indian oceans. These satellites are able to detect
Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) and
Submarine
Launch Ballistic Missiles (SLBMs) once their engines
are
ignited during a launch sequence. Each of the three
DSP
satellites has a ground station with uplinks. If these
ground
stations are destroyed by suitcase nukes, and if the
early
warning radars are damaged, the United States would be
blinded.
If U.S. political and military leaders were killed or
assassinated
by Spetsnaz commandos, the result might be that nobody
in
authority would realize the strategic implications of
the attacks
on early warning systems. All that the Russian
generals need
to achieve surprise is 35 minutes of paralysis,
blindness, and
confusion. That is what the 7,000 Spetsnaz commandos
would
be aiming at.
Now that we've been told that any Spetsnaz commandos
caught on American soil are probably working for bin
Laden,
we will be looking the wrong way.
Last May United States military intelligence detained
a group
of Russian tourists who were visiting all the dams
along the
Colorado River. It turns out that these "tourists"
were
suspected to be Russian Spetsnaz. They were visiting
the sites
they would attack in the event of war.
The Russian General Staff regards a future war with
America as
"inevitable." These are not my words, but the words of
a
colonel who served the Russian General Staff for
nearly 35
years. In this context the news about bin Laden is
more
ominous than a small terrorist group with nuclear
weapons.
There has been a larger group of criminals and
terrorists living
in the Kremlin since 1917. And they have a lot more
than 20
suitcase nuclear bombs.
J.R. Nyquist is a WorldNetDaily contributing editor
and
author of 'Origins of the Fourth World War.'
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