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To: Rarebird who wrote (38671)	8/9/1999 9:44:00 AM
From: Alex	Respond to of 116759

FUGITIVE TERRORIST GROUP MAY HAVE 20 NUKESAugust 9, 1999ÿThe World Tribune reported today: "Saudi fugitive Osama Bin Laden is believed to have up to 20 nuclear bombs and is seeking to launch a massive terrorist strike against the United States, a congressional investigator and author says. Yosef Bodansky, a researcher of the House Task Force for Counterterrorism and author of a new book on Bin Laden, told a news conference on Friday that Bin Laden has been seeking to follow up on his bombings of two U.S. embassies in east Africa one year ago. Echoing U.S. officials, Bodansky said Bin Laden was thwarted in plans to blow up the U.S. embassy and two consulates in India in last December and January. Bin Laden has biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, Bodansky said. The nuclear weapons include suitcase bombs acquired through Chechniyan rebels and received technical help from Iraq. ?The Russians believe that he has a handful [of nuclear weapons], the Saudi intelligence services are very conservative, perhaps they are friendly to the United States, believe that he has in the neighborhood of 20,? Bodansky said. ?As far as the acquisition and obtaining, there's the multiple sources of that, dealing with the actual purchase of suitcase bombs. His collection of individuals knowledgeable in activating the bombs and he is looking for and recruiting former Soviet special forces in learning how to operate the bombs behind enemy lines.?..."

To: Rarebird who wrote (38671)	8/9/1999 9:45:00 AM
From: goldsnow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116759

Forty-six-year old Vladimir Putin, it seems, is the man he is finally decided is best equipped to - as Mr Yeltsin sees it - defend democracy. That will be seen by many, at home and abroad, with some irony. Mr Putin, who graduated in law in 1975, served for 15 years, until 1990, in the First Main Directorate of the KGB - the Soviet intelligance service. The president's reasoning may be that only someone with the special insights of a security man can effectively control such an unruly country as Russia, and win either respect or grudging co-operation from the disunited but vociferous opposition parties. news.bbc.co.uk