Does Osama bin Laden possess nuclear weapons? Has he smuggled these
weapons into the United States? Does he have a plan to detonate these
weapons in multiple American cities if Israel attacks Iran's nuclear
facilities? Dr. Hugh Cort, President of the American Foundation for
Counter-Terrorism Policy and Research, believes the answer to all of
these questions is yes.
Cort has assembled a body of evidence which he claims supports the view
that bin Laden has a plan for an "American Hiroshima" which will be
implemented in the near future. He has sent this material to various
U.S. officials, including Robert S. Mueller III, Director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Cort believes that the government is not
doing enough to prevent an attack.
Much of his evidence centers around one Hamid Mir, a Pakistani
journalist who has conducted the only interview of bin Laden after 9/11.
Bin Laden told Mir that he had acquired 20 suitcase nuclear bombs from
the former Soviet Union. Mir told Cort that bin Laden's men have
smuggled these bombs into the United States. His men supposedly are
waiting for bin Laden to give them the signal, then seven to ten
American cities will be struck. If true it is little wonder that Iran's
leader confidently predicts that the United States will be bombed back
to the Stone Age.
Bin Laden supposedly has fulfilled Islamic law by warning the United
States that an attack is coming and offering a truce - convert to Islam
and you will not be attacked. Refusal to convert to Islam means that an
attack against America is justified. Three weeks prior to 9/11 bin Laden
warned that the United States would be attacked in an unprecedented way
for its support of Israel.
Already bin Laden has called for all Muslims in the United States to
leave. Instead of a mass exodus of Muslims from this country, new
mosques are opening every few weeks. Muslim schools also are being
established, which suggests that families plan to stay here for the
foreseeable future. But Yossef Bodansky, director of the Congressional
Task Force on Terrorism from 1988 to 1998, has testified that bin Laden
has obtained nuclear weapons. He told Congress that "Osama has recruited
former Soviet Special Forces (SPETSNAZ) soldiers to teach al Qaeda how
to maintain and operate the bombs."