Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: [MI6] Bin Laden ha l'atomica

I servizi segreti inglesi confermano che Bin Laden ha l'atomica,
preparata col supporto di scienziati pakistani.
Una nuova scusa per un nuovo attacco americano?
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MI6 confirms bin Laden's nukes
Pakistani scientists advising on weaponization
Publishing Date: 29.04.06 18:02
MI6, Britain's secret intelligence service, has identified six
Pakistani scientists working in Iran's nuclear bomb program who have
been "advising al-Qaida on how to weaponize fissionable materials it
has now obtained."
MI6 and the International Atomic Energy Agency believe the scientists
have played a major role in enabling Iran to be "well advanced in
providing uranium enriched materials for nuclear bombs," said Alexander
Cirilovic, a nuclear terrorism expert in Paris.
Both high-level MI6 and CIA sources have confirmed the scientists would
only have been allowed to assist al-Qaida with the authority of Iran's
unpredictable President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The revelation comes at a time when Washington has increased pressure
on Tehran to give up its nuclear weapons program.
 A.Q. Khan
 The scientists worked for Dr. A.Q. Khan, the "father of the
Islamic bomb," who is now under house arrest in Pakistan after
confessing he had provided both Iran and North Korea with details of
how to make their own nuclear bombs.
The MI6 report to other intelligence services followed bin Laden's
threats last week to unleash a new wave of terror - with Britain and
the United States his prime targets.
Recently, from his lair in north Pakistan, bin Laden boasted that
"al-Qaeda did not find it difficult to obtain the weapons grade
material.  We have contacts in Russia with other militant groups.
Enough material to make a tactical nuke is available for £15 million."
 Former CIA operative David Dastych, a G2B contributor and one of the
agency's experts on nuclear terrorism, said: "The traffic in nuclear
materials is ongoing and growing."
 Bin Laden's material is hidden somewhere in the mountain fastness
between Iran and Afghanistan.
 Its proximity to Iran's own nuclear facilities has made it easy for
the Pakistani scientists to assist al-Qaida.
Like Khan, all are strong al-Qaida supporters.  One, Bashiruddin
Mahmood, was briefly arrested in 2004 by the Pakistan intelligence
service.
He said he had met the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar and a high-ranking
al-Qaida operative.
In his statement Mahmood admitted: "They had asked me to devise a
radiological bomb.  It would be constructed from nuclear material
wrapped in conventional high explosive which bin Laden had obtained
from a nuclear storage site in Uzbekistan.  I refused to do so."
Despite a CIA request to have him transferred to the United States for
further questioning, Mahmood was set free.  Shortly afterward he fled
from Pakistan to Iran.
With him went five other senior scientists at the Khan laboratories.
They were Muhammad Zubair, Saeed Akhhter, Murad Qasim, Imtaz Baig and
Waheed Nasir.
They had helped Khan to successfully detonate Pakistan's first nuclear
bomb at a test site beneath the Baluchistan desert.
"Depending on the quality of the fissionable material bin Laden has
obtained, the combined scientific skills would be able to create
considerably more than a "dirty bomb," said Cirilovic.
 
            --G2B contributor Gordon Thomas

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