[Reformatted] Utah go boom, not in the public domain

Anonymous nobody at paranoici.org
Fri Dec 21 08:37:22 PST 2001


In <3.0.5.32.20011221063626.0079fdf0 at sarin.com>, you write:

> http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20122001-044449-5310r
>
> One report currently being investigated by U.S. intelligence officials
> came from Pakistani Inter-Service Intelligence sources who had
> conducted an interrogation of a "terrorist suspect" in early November.
> Under "coercion," the suspect said that agents of bin Laden had
> smuggled two portable nuclear weapons into the United States,
> according to the report seen by a U.S. government expert.
>
> The government expert, who has had access to the Pakistani
> investigation, said ISI provided "the highest levels of the U.S.
> government" with materials from the ISI interrogation including a
> summary of the suspect's confession, which this source had seen. The
> summary did not give the specific dates of the smuggling, the method,
> or time of entry. The suspect said only that the smuggling had been
> carried out, the U.S. government expert said.
>
> The sources of the report "were current ISI officers who had kept
> contact with U.S. counterparts" they had known from the 1980s,
> this U.S. government expert said. The summary was accompanied by
> "collateral" or supporting documents, he said. The package was given
> to senior U.S. officials in mid-November.
>
> The ISI had not rated the report's credibility but felt it important
> enough to alert the U.S. government, this source said.
>
> "What was disconcerting about the (suspect's) information was that he
> knew details of the activation of the weapons and their construction
> that are not in the public domain," the U.S. expert analyst said.
>
> ....... "Coercion" is a nice word for raping his wife? -- foo





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