Dems: Bush not fighting nuke terror threat

Of course they accuse him of this..lol why not..

Published on July 21, 2005 By ShadowWar In US Domestic

WASHINGTON – Nine days after WND broke a story on the presence of al-Qaida nuclear weapons inside the U.S., a Democratic Party national security advisory panel charged President Bush was not doing enough to prevent terrorists from detonating a nuclear bomb in a U.S. city – calling it "the gravest threat facing Americans today."

In a report issued yesterday, the group, headed by former Clinton administration Defense Secretary William Perry, said Bush is taking "insufficient actions" to counter the threat.

"The administration is fighting a global war on terror but not yet a global war on weapons of mass destruction," the report says.

The National Security Advisory Group, including retired Army generals John Shalikashvili and Wesley Clark, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former national security adviser Samuel Berger, was joined by Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi in saying North Korea and Iran pose bigger threats today than before the war on terrorism was launched. They also said programs aimed at preventing "loose nukes" have not been getting enough attention.

"This report says we must keep our eye on the ball," said Reid.

According to captured al-Qaida leaders and documents, al-Qaida has a plan called "American Hiroshima" involving the multiple detonation of nuclear weapons already smuggled into the U.S. over the Mexican border with the help of the MS-13 street gang and other organized crime groups, WND reported more than a week ago.

Al-Qaida has obtained at least 40 nuclear weapons from the former Soviet Union – including suitcase nukes, nuclear mines, artillery shells and even some missile warheads, according to the report developed by WND's premium, online intelligence newsletter Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin. In addition, documents captured in Afghanistan show al-Qaida had plans to assemble its own nuclear weapons with fissile material it purchased on the black market.

Besides trying to detonate its own nuclear weapons already planted in the U.S., military sources also say there is evidence to suggest al-Qaida is paying former Russian special forces Spetznaz to assist the terrorist group in locating nuclear weapons formerly concealed inside the U.S. by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Osama bin Laden's group is also paying nuclear scientists from Russia and Pakistan to maintain its existing nuclear arsenal and assemble additional weapons with the materials it has invested hundreds of millions in procuring over a period of 10 years.

The plans for the devastating nuclear attack on the U.S. have been under development for more than a decade. It is designed as a final deadly blow of defeat to the U.S., which is seen by al-Qaida and its allies as "the Great Satan."

At least half the nuclear weapons in the al-Qaida arsenal were obtained for cash from the Chechen terrorist allies.

Many of the details of the planned nuclear terror attack are found in an upcoming book, "The Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming Apocalypse," by Paul L. Williams, a former FBI consultant.

According to Williams, former CIA Director George Tenet informed President Bush one month after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that at least two suitcase nukes had reached al-Qaida operatives in the U.S.

According to the author, the news sent Bush "through the roof," prompting him to order his national security team to give nuclear terrorism priority over every other threat to America. The president reportedly ordered the building of underground bunkers away from major metropolitan areas for use by federal government managers following an attack.

A follow-up report in G2 Bulletin and WND said at least nine major U.S. cities, including New York and Washington, are prime targets for the al-Qaida nuclear terrorists. Osama bin Laden's preferred dates for attacks include Aug. 6, the anniversary of the Hiroshima nuclear bombing in 1945, Sept. 11 and May 14, the anniversary of the re-creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima attack will be marked next month.

"The administration has failed policies on weapons programs in North Korea and Iran, on securing loose nuclear material in Russia and elsewhere and on strengthening the world’s nuclear non-proliferation system," said Pelosi in her own statement. "The lack of leadership by the Bush administration in these areas has made the American people less safe than they should be."

The Democratic leaders embraced the key recommendations of the report, "Worst Weapons in Worst Hands: U.S. Inaction on the Nuclear Terror Threat Since 9/11, And A Path Of Action," to expedite the process to secure all loose nuclear material, and strengthen the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

Reid said: "It's time we did everything we can to protect Americans and focus in on the threats we face," Reid said. "This report makes very serious recommendations, and Democrats intend to use them to put this country back on the right path. I hope my Republican colleagues will join us in taking up these recommendations and keeping Americans safe."

"The gravest threat facing Americans today is a terrorist detonating a nuclear bomb in one of our cities," said the report. "The National Security Advisory Group judges that the Bush administration is taking insufficient actions to counter this threat. The administration is fighting a global war on terror, but not yet a global war on WMD."

The Democratic group believes North Korea's efforts at becoming a nuclear power "might still be stopped diplomatically through the Six-Party talks, but to have a chance, President Bush must put an end to the debate within his administration between those who favor diplomacy and those who favor pressure. Diplomacy or pressure is not a choice; it is a sequence. The U.S. should devise a Plan A for diplomatic success to employ first, and then a contingent Plan B for pressure to use if diplomacy fails. Plan B serves two purposes: to aid Plan A by showing North Korea the penalty for failing to end its nuclear program; and to create a realistic prospect of containing and ultimately eliminating the nuclear threat from North Korea."

The group also calls for closer cooperation between the U.S. and Russia.

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Comments

ParaTed2k

on Jul 22, 2005

Tall words from the fool that completely supported Prs. Clinton in selling nuclear technology to any country or group that would donate to his presidency.

William Perry sat silently as Prs. Clinton armed our enemies. Thanks Bill!!!

Island Dog

on Jul 22, 2005

Tall words from the fool that completely supported Prs. Clinton in selling nuclear technology to any country or group that would donate to his presidency.

It's just so funny when someone from the Clinton administration tells us that not enough is being done to prevent terrorism. Maybe if you guys responded after the first WTC attack, we would have taken care of it back then.

Dr Guy

on Jul 22, 2005

Question: I think I will reblog this too.

During the Clinton Administration, did anyone from the Bush 41 administration visit the news papers and news shows and say how they would have done it better?

Interesting.

kingbee

on Jul 22, 2005

i'm interested in knowing why you posted this shadowwar. is it because you're in agreement or because you find it impossible to accept?

if i could turn back the clock for just a few minutes and change something that happened at any point in the past 12 months (well change things that i wasn't involved in personally), i would go back to the first bush/kerry debate and have bush answer the last question of the evening before kerry, rather than after him. i truly believe if kerry hadn't mentioned the looming nuclear threat, bush woulda kept on telling us about hard work and flipflopping.

although i don't claim to know if there are nuclear devices in the us now--nor how many there may be--it would surpise the hell outta me to learn there weren't any.

i've previously mentioned reading--not three hours before the first plane hit the wtc--an article in which bush was quoted as being determined to revamp and revive the missle defense initiative. i reread it several times wondering if he could possibly be so abysmally out of touch with reality (after all, years of testing seem to prove only one thing: it don't work and it aint likely to work at any time in the forseeable future). could he not comprehend the obvious--that the most likely scenario for a nuclear attack on this continent would involve suitcases rather than missles? how could he neglect the strong possibility of an attack using unconventional weapons--those from which starwars distracted attention without providing any protection?

the thing that surprised me most about 9/11 wasn't what happened that day. i'd been expecting something like that for over 20 years while hoping against hope it wouldnt happen. i kept waiting for the nuclear weapon to go off...for the cloud of germs to appear. as terrifying as it was to see the 2nd plane slam into the building and then watch the buildings disintegrate...to see people leaping from their offices...i was actually very relieved when it became clear that was as bad as it was gonna get.

because it easily coulda been much, much worse.

the points made in the report you've posted are exactly the reason i hold bush and this administration in such contempt
snarling into the camera and tough talk about 'smoking em out'...making people remove their shoes at airports...establishing a color-coded terror level (which was then used to play voters rather than protect citizens...settling for a dubious victory in afghanistan in order to set off on an equally dubious campaign in iraq...creating a facade of 'security' that ignores the truly catastrophic threats to the citizens of the us...all the talk about freedom and evildoers...is just so much noise and smoke and mirrors.

i am increasingly fearful bush & team have squandered almost every minute of four years we could--and should--have been using to prevent nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of those who look forward to using them against us.

ultimately, it's not important what clinton did or didn't do the day the first one of these devices explodes in our cities. what is important that not much has been done--not much in proportion to the consequences--to prevent it from happening. it's a good damn thing bush built those bunkers. cuz i gotta feeling if he was accessible in the aftermath it wouldnt be radiation he'd need to fear so much as its victims.

kingbee

on Jul 22, 2005

This implies that we have no plan for diplomacy, which we already do--arent there talks going on already, or in the near future?

talks are about to begin--no thanks to anything the administration has done except to finally allow the process to begin. it should also imply that the situation in north korea deteriorated solely because we violated an agreement that was working.

Even if they set off all 40 of them all at once on our 40 largest cities, it would be far from a 'final, deadly blow" leading to our defeat.

Not until every man, woman, and child capable of picking up a weapon is incinerated where they stand is that gonna happen. In the meantime, Im sure our retaliation WOULD be the final, deadly blow to them, and anyone near them and anyone that's befriended them

hopefully you didnt read the links shadow provided before posting that part of your comment. it makes as little sense and has a little revelance as 'let's roll'. 40 nuclear devices may not end the us in an hour. we may launch a counterstrike and add to the horror, the only thing worse than being a survivor will be surviving and remembering there were among us people who espoused such tragic idiocy

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