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AL-QAEDA HAS NOT BOUGHT ANY SUITCASE NUKES
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| AL-QAEDA HAS NOT BOUGHT ANY SUITCASE NUKES. John Mueller 2007 (Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center Professor of Political Science, "REACTIONS AND OVERREACTIONS TO TERRORISM Prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, August September 3, 2007, http://psweb.sbs.ohio-state.edu/faculty/jmueller/APSA2007.PDF. Allison also reports a claim by Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir that Zawahiri told him in 2001 "If you have $30 million, go to the black market in central Asia, contact any disgruntled Soviet scientist and...dozens of smart briefcase bombs are available. They have contacted us, we sent our people to Moscow, to Tashkent, to other states, and they negotiated, and we purchased some suitcase bombs" (2004, 27). Ashe acknowledges in a note, Allison gets this alarming, even incendiary, quote from a San Francisco Chronicle article that is entitled, "Al Qaeda bluffing about having suitcase nukes, experts say Russians claim terrorists couldn't have bought them" The portion of that article that apparently did not interest Allison notes, as discussed earlier, that Russian nuclear officials and experts on the Russian nuclear programs "adamantly" deny that al Qaeda or other terrorist groups could have bought Soviet-made suitcase nukes (Badken 2004). 10NFL1-Nuclear Weapons Page 178 of 199 www.victorybriefs.com Download 1.23 Mb. Share with your friends:
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