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Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime, And the Coming Apocalypse
The author reveals persuasive evidence that al Qaeda has now established connections with the Sicilian Mafia, which is helping to finance terrorism through the sale of heroin. In addition, through its ties to the Chechen Mafia, the group responsible for the heinous attack on a Russian school, al Qaeda has managed to obtain nuclear weapons from poorly secured and carelessly guarded storehouses in Russia.Perhaps the most disturbing evidence uncovered by Williams is the relation of al Qaeda to an obscure Salvadoran street gang, which calls itself Mara Salvatrucha and has expanded exponentially.No other book deals with the connection between international, extremist Islamic terrorism and organized crime-a connection that has made possible the establishment of a well-financed branch of al Qaeda in Latin America and the creation of terrorist cells in major metropolitan areas throughout the United States.
284 pages, Hardcover
First published September 6, 2005
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September 3, 2019
So scary it's unreal
According to Williams and his reading of his sources Al Qaeda already has the bomb, many times over. Bin Laden purchased the nukes from Chechen rebels who stole/bought them from disgruntled former Soviet scientists. Bin Laden also purchased some of the scientists and technicians themselves to keep the bombs in working order. Furthermore, bin Laden bought fissionable material on the black market and has the ability to turn that material into his own homemade bombs. He hired some nuclear scientists to help out. He got the money to pay for this from running the heroin trade out of Afghanistan.
The question immediate arises, why hasn't he used the nukes yet? The answer, according to Williams, is that bin Laden is a very, very careful man with enormous patience who, having spent all that dough, is not about to blow his opportunity to kill four million Americans through doing anything hasty like getting the bombs stopped at the border, or having them inoperative when he pulls the trigger. The grand plan is to get the nukes into the US and plant them at say seven different locations, including probably New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Las Vegas, Boston, Los Angeles, etc., make his usual pious announcement that it is time for the US to exit all Muslim lands and accept the will of Allah, etc. And when the US does not, he pulls the trigger, morally secure in the knowledge that he warned us.
But there is more. Williams claims that during the Cold War the former Soviet Union planted suitcase-sized nuclear bombs in many places throughout the United States, and those bombs are still there. Possibly bin Laden has purchased knowledge of their location and how to work them from former Soviet scientists and military operatives.
Williams wrings his hands and wants to know, since this is all public knowledge (he cites the sources on page after page), why the mass media hasn't informed the American public about the impending apocalypse.
I don't believe the sky is falling. I seldom subscribe to conspiracy theories, but I want to be candid here. I've been reading on his subject for a few years now, and like Williams I can see that the information and the cold logic is out there. You just have to go after it since the major media don't feel it's in the best interest of their bottom line to make a big deal of something so horrific as a possible nuclear attack on the United States--especially considering that nobody, but nobody knows how to do anything about it.
Certainly not the Bush administration, which is decidedly NOT addressing the subject in public. They cannot for fear of causing a panic. Think what would happen to the stock market if the Bush administration admitted that an unpreventable nuclear attack on US was likely and imminent.
Personally I used to live in the Los Angeles area. I moved not long ago. The Long Beach-Los Angeles harbor is the biggest port of entry for cargo containers in the United States. Of the millions that come into the port every year only about three percent are inspected. I didn't like the odds.
I would also like to point out first the obvious that the Bush administration has not gotten bin Laden and that we have no deterrent against him. We could blow up Pakistan (where he is presumably hiding) but we might never know if we got him or not. Furthermore, he doesn't care. The thrill of killing four million Americans (Al Qaeda's stated goal "justified" by how many Muslims America has supposedly killed) clearly would outweigh his fear of death.
Second, note that the people who mailed the anthrax letters a month after the World Trade Towers went down have never been apprehended or even identified. But if you read the media closely, it is clear that the most likely suspect is not a disgruntled or deranged government employee but instead the very same Al Qaeda that conducted the September 11th massacre. Williams notes that Al Qaeda has anthrax and other biochemical agents.
I mention this because the reason that the Bush administration and the mass media no longer mention the anthrax mailings is the same reason they don't talk about the missing Soviet nukes and the likelihood of where they are, namely because to speak truthfully about these things is to spread fear and panic among the general public and to admit to an inability to do anything about it. This is the reason we are facing these horrendous threats in silence
Amazing, you say? It is. And it is as crazy or even crazier than the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) that prevailed during the Cold War, and, by the way, still prevails to some extent today.
Bottom line is that some humans will murder one another in an attempt to get what they want. They will wantonly kill one another in the name of God or because of hate or prejudice. And with nuclear weapons now over-the-counter items, they will do so in massive numbers, and again, guess what? Until we change human nature or find a way to actually prevent (make physically impossible) its use, the mushroom cloud will once again envelope a human city, and probably in the near future. And that city will be an American city.
Count on it, is what Williams is telling us. He cites sources throughout and fills his narrative with the most compellingly veracious-sounding detail that I am fairly crying out for somebody to demonstrate, item by item, that he is in error. I wish I could. The truth is, I think he's right.
Read this book at your peril. It might give you nightmares. It might bring on clinical depression. It might make you as cynical as satan. Or don't read it. Sometimes, ignorance (if you can stand it) really is bliss.
--Dennis Littrell, author of “The World Is Not as We Think It Is”
According to Williams and his reading of his sources Al Qaeda already has the bomb, many times over. Bin Laden purchased the nukes from Chechen rebels who stole/bought them from disgruntled former Soviet scientists. Bin Laden also purchased some of the scientists and technicians themselves to keep the bombs in working order. Furthermore, bin Laden bought fissionable material on the black market and has the ability to turn that material into his own homemade bombs. He hired some nuclear scientists to help out. He got the money to pay for this from running the heroin trade out of Afghanistan.
The question immediate arises, why hasn't he used the nukes yet? The answer, according to Williams, is that bin Laden is a very, very careful man with enormous patience who, having spent all that dough, is not about to blow his opportunity to kill four million Americans through doing anything hasty like getting the bombs stopped at the border, or having them inoperative when he pulls the trigger. The grand plan is to get the nukes into the US and plant them at say seven different locations, including probably New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, Las Vegas, Boston, Los Angeles, etc., make his usual pious announcement that it is time for the US to exit all Muslim lands and accept the will of Allah, etc. And when the US does not, he pulls the trigger, morally secure in the knowledge that he warned us.
But there is more. Williams claims that during the Cold War the former Soviet Union planted suitcase-sized nuclear bombs in many places throughout the United States, and those bombs are still there. Possibly bin Laden has purchased knowledge of their location and how to work them from former Soviet scientists and military operatives.
Williams wrings his hands and wants to know, since this is all public knowledge (he cites the sources on page after page), why the mass media hasn't informed the American public about the impending apocalypse.
I don't believe the sky is falling. I seldom subscribe to conspiracy theories, but I want to be candid here. I've been reading on his subject for a few years now, and like Williams I can see that the information and the cold logic is out there. You just have to go after it since the major media don't feel it's in the best interest of their bottom line to make a big deal of something so horrific as a possible nuclear attack on the United States--especially considering that nobody, but nobody knows how to do anything about it.
Certainly not the Bush administration, which is decidedly NOT addressing the subject in public. They cannot for fear of causing a panic. Think what would happen to the stock market if the Bush administration admitted that an unpreventable nuclear attack on US was likely and imminent.
Personally I used to live in the Los Angeles area. I moved not long ago. The Long Beach-Los Angeles harbor is the biggest port of entry for cargo containers in the United States. Of the millions that come into the port every year only about three percent are inspected. I didn't like the odds.
I would also like to point out first the obvious that the Bush administration has not gotten bin Laden and that we have no deterrent against him. We could blow up Pakistan (where he is presumably hiding) but we might never know if we got him or not. Furthermore, he doesn't care. The thrill of killing four million Americans (Al Qaeda's stated goal "justified" by how many Muslims America has supposedly killed) clearly would outweigh his fear of death.
Second, note that the people who mailed the anthrax letters a month after the World Trade Towers went down have never been apprehended or even identified. But if you read the media closely, it is clear that the most likely suspect is not a disgruntled or deranged government employee but instead the very same Al Qaeda that conducted the September 11th massacre. Williams notes that Al Qaeda has anthrax and other biochemical agents.
I mention this because the reason that the Bush administration and the mass media no longer mention the anthrax mailings is the same reason they don't talk about the missing Soviet nukes and the likelihood of where they are, namely because to speak truthfully about these things is to spread fear and panic among the general public and to admit to an inability to do anything about it. This is the reason we are facing these horrendous threats in silence
Amazing, you say? It is. And it is as crazy or even crazier than the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) that prevailed during the Cold War, and, by the way, still prevails to some extent today.
Bottom line is that some humans will murder one another in an attempt to get what they want. They will wantonly kill one another in the name of God or because of hate or prejudice. And with nuclear weapons now over-the-counter items, they will do so in massive numbers, and again, guess what? Until we change human nature or find a way to actually prevent (make physically impossible) its use, the mushroom cloud will once again envelope a human city, and probably in the near future. And that city will be an American city.
Count on it, is what Williams is telling us. He cites sources throughout and fills his narrative with the most compellingly veracious-sounding detail that I am fairly crying out for somebody to demonstrate, item by item, that he is in error. I wish I could. The truth is, I think he's right.
Read this book at your peril. It might give you nightmares. It might bring on clinical depression. It might make you as cynical as satan. Or don't read it. Sometimes, ignorance (if you can stand it) really is bliss.
--Dennis Littrell, author of “The World Is Not as We Think It Is”
November 17, 2013
Every American should be required to read this book.
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