Paul L. Williams argues that Osama bin Laden wanted to conduct a nuclear strike against the U.S., with 7 to 10 strategic nukes set to go off in major cities at the same time. According to Williams, if bin Laden had wanted a simple radiological assault instead, it would have occurred years ago. He argues that this would have been within the range of his supporters' capacities. As for the progress towards the larger goal, there is the following to consider. Per Williams, U.S. intelligence estimates that there are currently up to twenty-four tactical nukes floating around the United States - at least, Abu Mohamed el Masry Saad al Sharif corroborated such estimates. Assuming his claims to be true, it would seem the nukes were smuggled across the U.S.-Mexican border with relative ease, which is frightening.
The idea that bin Laden had his eye on something bigger goes back to the allegation that he wanted to kill ten million Americans, and this would have required a strategic nuke. According to Williams, six Pakistani scientists, including Bashiruddin Mehmood, were confronted by bin Laden about building such a weapon. It is not clear what sort of information was exchanged during the meeting, but Williams claims that, in 1996, there were over seven hundred cases of nuke-related material purchases, all routed through Germany to bin Laden. In 2003, a terrorist suspect named Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was arrested and supposedly had his laptop confiscated which documents detailing these orders. It sounds almost too unreal, but Williams claims that the plans for the "American Hiroshima" were right there on the laptop.
Adnan el-Sukrijumah was one of the individuals exposed in connection with the find. A Guyanese nuclear technician and accomplished pilot, el-Sukrijumah was considered to be "extremely dangerous" by the CIA. Williams personal opinion is that el-Sukrijumah was supposed to play a role in the next attack.
Of course, Islamist jihadists would need significant support to carry out their plan. But, by proclaiming to be waging war on abortion, liberalism, hyperconsumerism, smut and the rest of the "cultural pollution" that stems from the Western world, they have found a surprising level of support from Muslim communities worldwide. This is especially the case in Saudi Arabia. According to Williams, 90% of educated Saudis between ages 19 and 45 support jihad and bin Laden. Wahhabi Islam, the religion of Saudi Arabia since 1932, may be part of the equation. Wahhabism is not one of the reformed versions of Islam, and affords more strict interpretations of the Koran. Williams calls it a "radical form of Islam" and says this form is "known for its anti-American sentiments." Incidentally, in 2001, out of the 1400 mosques in the U.S., eighty percent of them were established and funded by Wahhabis. A survey by a Pew Research group found that an estimated thirty percent of the Muslim community in the U.S. is not against the idea of suicide bombings. Islam is also the fastest growing religion in the United States. Ironically, these could be some of the reasons that the "American Hiroshima" plan Williams alleges to have existed never came to fruition; why risk your entire community getting expelled for waging lone-wolf jihad when every Muslim already in the Western world - or intending to get there - can just pump out some dozen children, raise each to create another dozen children and gradually take over the entire host society of the infertile and infantile West? This is the much more efficient pathway towards total domination and, in terms of survival, evidence that not living according to Islam is inferior and Allah's will is of favor. As a Muslim, what more could you want?
And so, it seems a battle of ideals and social philosophies is now underway - a soft-power struggle between the ideologues of the Islamic Fundamentalist political movement, to build and retain influence in Muslim immigrant communities, and the monied individuals who shape initiatives in the Western world. I predict we will see the culmination of this struggle in our lifetimes. Of course, most people in the Western world are too busy chasing money or pursuing impulsive whims or vices to see this unfolding - or care. In that sense, they shape their own destiny; looking away instead of demanding the borders be controlled allows Muslims to slip into Europe in the first place and without any vetting. Meanwhile, the tolerance and propagation of the things destroying family and the chance for societies with natural, native-birth populations - feminism, abortion, smut and hyperindividualism, for example - is held aloft as a positive value and, one might expect, selling various aspects of these lifestyles is making somebody a lot of money. In the same vein, seeing the world as nothing but a raw economic forum, with resources like oil or opium to be exploited - and villages to be bombed so they can be built back and flooded with products and liberal ideals - can fuel animosity towards the West and make a mess of the world, but hey: it influences stocks and economy while certain people make money. That said, it is important to remember who is making this money, just as it is important to remember who operates most border-transcending smut industries, and sells crooked morality and hypermaterialism around the clock. Likewise, it is important to recall who is keen to exploit foreign people for labor, and thinks they are above everyone. In case I've lost you, it's those who currently control the West - those who, facing an "American Hiroshima", would surely have dodged underground and left everyone else above to suffer. Hopefully, on some brighter day, when things come to a head, there will actually be justice. And hopefully, in Europe - where Muslims stand to become the majority - that means something other than nationalist and Islamist communities at each other's throats in the streets, seeking to take control the collapsing liberal society around them. Unfortunately, this end scenario is no less likely to be a fiction than "America Hiroshima" was; we can only hope that, like "American Hiroshima", the facts will lead to a more efficient end.
