AL QAEDA HAS NUKES IN U.S.

80 KILOS OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL MISSING


AL QAEDA HAS NUKES IN U.S.

LEADING PAKISTANI JOURNALIST CONFIRMS REPORTS OF McMASTER UNIVERSITY

by
Michael Travis

In taped interviews, Hamid Mir, the celebrated Pakistani journalist who interviewed Osama bin Laden in the wake of 9/11, speaks of the presence of al Qaeda agents at McMaster University and “over 80 kilograms” of missing nuclear material.

The interviews support Congressional testimony of Janice L. Kephart (counsel to the 9/11 Commission), and the findings of numerous investigators including Dr. Paul L. Williams, an award-winning American journalist, who is being tried in Canada under Canadian law for his reports about McMaster, a university which houses one of the largest research nuclear reactors in the Western hemisphere.

Mr. Mir is widely recognized for his knowledge of the inner workings of al Qaeda and its leading operatives.

On the tapes, he speaks at length of Anas al-Liby, a founder of al Qaeda, and of al-Liby’s efforts to recruit “good Muslim students” from universities throughout the U.S., Great Britain, and Canada.

The FBI has listed al-Liby as one of its “Most Wanted” terrorists and has placed a $5 million reward for any information leading to his arrest or capture.

Mr. Mir maintains that al-Liby was given the task by bin Laden to construct tactical nuclear bombs and radiological devices.

Speaking from a conference of America’s Truth Forum in Las Vegas, Mr. Mir says there is “no doubt” that al-Liby succeeded in this task and that dirty bombs and nukes are now in the hands of al Qaeda agents.

In statements that should send shock waves through the U.S. intelligence community, the Pakistani journalist adds that al-Liby was on the campus of McMaster in Hamilton, Ontario between 2000 and 2002. Mr. Mir maintains that “it was not difficult” for al-Liby to steal “eighty kilos” of nuclear material.

Mr. Mir also speaks of Adnan el Shukrijumah, another al Qaeda agent who allegedly spent time at McMaster, as “the man who will lead the next attack inside America.”

According to Mr. Mir, Shukrijumah, who is a naturalized U.S. citizen, “stayed with the 9/11 hijackers” and was “a very close friend of Muhammad Atta.

(Mir’s statement regarding Atta and Shukrijumah has been supported by a ABC-News report of Sept. 10, 2009.)

Among those present at the taping of Mr. Mir’s comments were Dr. Hugh Cort, a psychiatrist from Alabama, Laurice Tatum, a licensed private investigator, Dr. Paul Williams, and this reporter.

More on Iran Trying to Get Nuclear Material from Canada

By Michael Travis:

Iran aiming to get nuclear materials via Canada: customs
Thursday, 01 October 2009

OTTAWA (AFP) — Iran is attempting to acquire clandestine shipments via Canada for its nuclear program, a senior customs official said Thursday.

Canadian customs officers have seized everything from centrifuge parts to programmable logic controllers being shipped to Iran through third countries, George Webb, head of the Canada Border Services Agency's Counter Proliferation Section, told the National Post.

The increasing number of cases involves entrepreneurs and state-sponsored cells, Webb told the daily, in comments that were confirmed to AFP by a spokeswoman for CBSA.

Microchips identified as possible "navigational chips" from the United States, Denmark and Japan were marked as headed for the United Arab Emirates, but officials suspect the end destination was Iran, said the Canadian daily.

"With all of the UN sanctions, of course, now no one declares that the goods are going to Iran. They actually declare UAE, Dubai," he said.

The last seizure occurred just last week.

In April, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police charged a Toronto man with attempting to export pressure transducers, which can be used in nuclear power plants but are also required to produce nuclear weapons, to Iran.

Mahmoud Yadegari is to be tried in January for attempting to ship the items to Iran via Dubai.

In another case, high pressure pipes from Texas were originally suspected of containing Mexican drugs, but turned out to be for nuclear use in Iran.

However, "arrests are rare because the procurement cells are difficult to identify," the newspaper said.

Webb also revealed authorities had recently discovered a new port in the Persian Gulf named Ras al-Khaimah being used to transship goods to Iran.

The port is nominally in the UAE, but is controlled by Iran and is situated just across the Gulf from Bandar Abbas, an Iranian city with a naval base and an airport capable of landing large transport planes, he said.