NP - General Terror Alert

[David Morris]

FWIW:
http://www.debka.com/

One factor in the third general terror alert raised in the United States 
since September 11 relates, according to US media, to intelligence 
information indicating that the former Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden has 
gained possession of a so-called dirty or radiological bomb. The target date 
referred to in electronic intercepts is mid-December. It has also been 
suggested that such weapons may have been smuggled into the United States.

On October 12, DEBKA-Net-Weekly reported from its intelligence sources that 
Bin Laden had almost certainly procured a supply of uranium-235 six months 
before the September 11 suicide attacks. The uranium was believed to have 
reached him in a multimillion deal with a Ukrainian-born mobster called 
Semion Mogilevich.

DEBKA-Net-Weekly came back to the subject more recently on November 30, in 
another exclusive report:
*Radiation Poisoning Betrays Mule*
In the first week of October, a Pakistani arrested on immigration charges in 
the course of the FBI investigation into the September 11 suicide attacks, 
complained of bleeding gums and pain, symptoms of gingivitis. He was treated 
with antibiotics, but was found dead in his cell in Hudson Count jail in 
Kearny, New Jersey, three weeks later.
The cause of death was not released, any more than the dead man’s identity.

DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s medical experts note that the bleeding gums the anonymous 
Pakistani was treated for are a symptom of radiation poisoning, suggesting 
he might have been a “mule” transporting nuclear materials or devices into 
America. (A subsequent investigation revealed that he had contracted 
gingivitis as a result of radiation-induced leukemia.)

This explanation would imply that more than one such carrier is employed by 
al Qaeda to smuggle nuclear materials or devices into the United States, 
Western Europe and the Middle East, their mission being to plant their 
deadly burdens in pre-arranged secret locations, ready for activation.

At roughly the same time, another Pakistani was detained at the Allenby 
Bridge crossing from Jordan to Israel. According to initial published 
reports, he was caught trying to smuggle in a “dirty” nuclear device (a 
conventional explosive mixed with nuclear materials that spreads radiation).

Then came the news blackout.

An exhaustive DEBKA-Net-Weekly investigation revealed that the arrested 
intruder carried no nuclear device. However, he suffered the same symptoms 
as the man who died in Hudson Jail, New Jersey, indicating he had been 
exposed to dangerous doses of radiation. DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s intelligence 
sources reveal that Israel has recently installed hidden Geiger counters in 
the battery of detectors at its international border crossings. The counter 
pointed border officials to the suspected “mule”, who most probably reached 
Jordan from Abu Dhabi.
Israel handed him over to the United States, but was left asking itself: 
What exactly was the Pakistani’s mission? And have other members of the mule 
pack managed to gain entry?


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