DOES AL QAEDA HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS?
PART ONE by J. R. Nyquist Paul Williams is a journalist who has written two books on the nuclear terror threat. In 2004 he came out with Osamas Revenge in which he claimed that al Qaeda was preparing a nuclear attack against America that would take place simultaneously at various locations throughout the country. And now, in 2005, Williams offers us The Al Qaeda Connection, in which he describes the relationship between al Qaeda nuclear weapons and narcotics smuggling. Williams points to testimony from captured terrorists and borderland criminals who say that a mass nuclear attack on the U.S. in imminent. Like many observers Im not sure how to analyze the testimony of political fanatics who are told lies by their superiors as a matter of course. And I dont know much weight to give the testimony of narcotics traffickers. Piecing together testimony is tricky business. Furthermore, I am skeptical when it comes to the idea that a non-state actor (i.e., al Qaeda) possesses dozens of nuclear
