Iraq has been detrimental to the War on Terra™ notwithstanding the "flypaper" nonsense of blowhards like Sullivan and other overpaid talking heads. Here's why:
Usama bin Laden's terror network claims to have bought ready-made nuclear weapons on the black market in central Asia, the biographer of Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader was quoted as telling an Australian television station.
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"Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri laughed and he said 'Mr. Mir, if you have $30 million, go to the black market in central Asia, contact any disgruntled Soviet scientist, and a lot of ... smart briefcase bombs are available,'" Mir said in the interview.
"They have contacted us, we sent our people to Moscow, to Tashkent, to other central Asian states and they negotiated, and we purchased some suitcase bombs," Mir quoted al-Zawahiri as saying.
Al-Qaeda has never hidden its interest in acquiring nuclear weapons.
As Ezra over at Pandagon says: "Some scary, scary shit".
Otherwise known as the price of "taking your eye off the ball".
posted by Jo Fish on 03.21.04 at 04:43 PM
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And to think the outing of a CIA agent caused people to lose trutst in the USA as someone to turn over such people to...
We very possibly have helped them acquiesce these weapons, via obstruction of our own credibility and process.
posted by: Mr.Murder on 03.22.04 at 05:13 PM [permalink]
Scary to think that only Comedy Central is "getting it"
