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A new book written by a former FBI consultant claims that al-Qaeda not only
has obtained nuclear devices, but also likely has them in the U.S. and will
detonate them in the near future. These chilling allegations appear in
"Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11: What the Media and the Government Haven't
Told You," by Paul L. Williams (Prometheus Books).

Williams claims that al-Qaida has been planning a spectacular nuclear attack
using six or seven suitcase nuclear bombs that would be detonated
simulantaneously in U.S. cities. You can get this book by Going Here Now.
"They want the most bang for the buck, and that is nuclear," Williams told
NewsMax.

"I expect such an attack would come between now and the end of 2005," the
author said.

In addition to writing several books on terrorism, Williams, an
investigative journalist, has worked as an FBI consultant.

Williams' contention is not far from what U.S. intelligence believes, a
source close to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge has told NewsMax. The source said Ridge claimed that U.S. intelligence believes terrorists already
have smuggled into the U.S. actual atomic devices, as opposed to so-called
"dirty nukes" that simply are conventional bombs that help spread radiation.

The Bush administration has warned for years that terrorists pose a nuclear
threat to America.

"It is not a question of if....it is a question of when," so claims the
author of a controversial new book "Osama's Revenge: The Next 9/11: What the
Media and the Government Haven't Told You," (Prometheus Books).
Williams says his "intelligence" concludes the most likely means of attack
would come in the form of a so-called "suitcase (size) tactical nuclear
bomb."

"The chatter that everyone is referring to is coming from the nest in
Pakistan, a virulent nest in Iran, the chatter is all about nukes being
here....the best bang for the buck is nuclear, they (al-Qaeda) know that."
Such bombs are estimated to have an explosive strength of approximately "10
kilotons" and could weigh less than 35 pounds.

"With today's technology and the Internet, an experienced person could
easily assemble such a bomb in his home garage," Williams explained.
A bomb of that strength could easily level Manhattan and spread lethal
radiation throughout the NYC-Metro area says the author. "It (the nuke)
could render Manhattan unlivable for 1,000 years," he estimated.

According to Williams, several of the "suitcase nukes" are already inside
the U.S. Some may have been smuggled in overland from Canada or Mexico, or
shipped from overseas via container ships, he explained.
Another, more ominous method, was a throwback to the Cold War era.

Williams, quoting Russian military officials, says Moscow secretly slipped
into the continental U.S. several suitcase nukes to be activated in case of
the breakout of hostilities with Washington.

Today, Williams says many of those "sleeper" nukes remain in place because
some in the Kremlin still believe a conflict with the U.S. is possible.

The author insists that Al Qaeda has "thousands" of sympathizers and
numerous sleeper cells in the United States ready to carry out new attacks
when given the OK.

Among the cities Williams says are vulnerable include: New York, Chicago,
Washington, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dallas, Valdes, Alaska (oil
pipelines-shipping) and Rappohoneck County, VA.

Why a Small County in Rural Virginia?

Williams says it is the home of the underground command center the White
House would move to in the event of war.

The author refers to recent comments made by Vice-President Dick Cheney as
verification the nuclear threat from Osama Bin Laden is real.
He also points out that al-Qaeda and Bin Laden have publicly proclaimed
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