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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 303.625
EAN num: 9781591023494
ISBN number: 1591023491
Label: Prometheus Books
Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
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Page Count: 280
Printing Date: September 06, 2005
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In his acclaimed exposé, Osama’s Revenge: The Next 9/11, terrorism expert Paul L. Williams revealed the likelihood of nuclear terrorism on American soil. Now in this chilling sequel Williams further explores the shocking dimensions of the international terrorist threat to Americans. Williams reveals persuasive evidence that al Qaeda has now established connections with the Sicilian Mafia, which is helping to finance terrorism through the sale of Number Four heroin, the present drug of choice in Europe and the United States. In addition, through its ties to the Chechen Mafia, the group responsible for the heinous attack on a Russian school, al Qaeda has managed to obtain nuclear weapons from poorly secured and carelessly guarded storehouses in Russia. Perhaps the most disturbing evidence uncovered by Williams is the relation of al Qaeda to an obscure Salvadoran street gang, which calls itself Mara Salvatrucha and has expanded exponentially. In exchange for big money, this violent group of anarchic thugs has smuggled weapons of mass destruction and sleeper agents across the Mexican border onto American soil, or what they refer to as the land of the 'Great Satan.'
No other book deals with the connection between international, extremist Islamic terrorism and organized crime—a connection that has made possible the establishment of a well-financed branch of al Qaeda in Latin America and the creation of terrorist cells in major metropolitan areas throughout the United States. Williams convincingly demonstrates that by means of this network Bin Laden is now in a position to execute his dream of an American Hiroshima, an apocalyptic act of mass murder within the borders of the United States. Though vigorously working to prevent such an attack, many military experts and security officials concede the probability of nuclear terrorism in America, perhaps in the immediate future.
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For the most part a wealth of valuable information about the radical Islamist threat posed by al Qaeda.
However, I would like to make several corrections to Mr. Williams book.
1. On page 129 he writes, "In October 2000, Ali Mohamed, a former US Green Beret sergeant who plead guilty to..." Let me make it clear that Ali Mohamad was NOT a Green Beret.
2. On page 183 he discusses how Ali Mohamed's position as a supply sergeant afforded al Qaeda, "vivid proof of al Qaeda's amazing ability to stretch its tentacles into the very heart of military intelligence." This is a stretch (of the tentacles?) at best! The only thing that al Qaeda could have learned from Ali Mohamed,by virtue of his position as a supply sergeant, was supply-related only. Ali Mohammed was not given acess to any intelligence;therefore, al Qaeda could not have accessed any Special Forces intelligence in any way, shape, or form from Mohammed. Mohamed may have picked up a manual or two while snooping around in places he was not authorized, but nothing of significance. I am interested in how Mr. Williams comes to this conclusion.
3. On page 184 he explains, "In 1989 Mohamed received an honorable discharge and began traveling back and forth to Afghanistan, where he provided training in special operations (the same training he supposedly received as a Green Beret!?!) to recruits at al Qaeda training camps." I'm not sure what special operations training Mr. Williams is talking about here, because Ali Mohamed, as a supply clerk, never received any formal Special Forces operational training at all! However, Mohamed was a former Egyptian Special Forces Officer who, before joining the U.S. Army, did participate in some military exchange training with U.S. Army Special Forces Officers.
In order to qualify as a Special Forces Green Beret, one must successfully complete all required Special Forces training to include graduating from the Special Forces Qualification Course (Q-Course). Upon successful completion of the Q-Course a Green Beret is awarded an 18 series identifier (e.g. 18A, 18D, 18E, 18C, 18B) and authorized to wear the Special Forces shoulder tab. Special Forces Warrant Officers are awarded the MOS 180A. Ali Mohamed never received any Special Forces training, did not graduate from the Q-Course, did not earn an identifier, and was not authorized to wear the Special Forces shoulder tab. In short, Ali Mohamad was a "supply clerk" (later an instructor) who worked only in a support capacity.
These may seem like small points, but to those who have earned the Green Beret they are not.
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Every American should read this book. DO NOT count on learning the truth about the threat we are facing in this Country from the liberal media. They do not want you to know what we are facing, due to their hate for Bush and the Republicans.
EXCELLENT BOOK........
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The Al Qaeda Connection is the sequel to Osama's Revenge, another excellent book.
Some of the reviews raise interesting questions, "Why hasn't a suitcase nuke been used?" Others show political tunnel vision or refusal to accept facts they do not like. Paul Williams presents facts, some frightening, that make the reader wonder about the sanity of our government leaders. He does a terrific job of showing the fundamentalist Islamic mindset and objectives: they want to convert us to Islam, or turn us into slaves, or kill us. Nothing less is acceptable.
Perhaps current events provide the answer to the "Why" question above. Williams references Homeland security sources (page 94) when he says al Qaeda obtained small nukes from Chechens and smuggled them into the U.S. Such small nukes would use a polonium-beryllium neutron source, the "nuclear trigger" to cause an atomic explosion. Polonium-210, the poison used to kill the former KGB agent in London, has a short shelf life. Neutron triggers would not functions after a year, thus the triggers have to be replaced. See my book (p.59) for details on this type of trigger, but suffice it to say a courier carrying small packets of foil rapped Po-210 could have caused the multiple contaminated sites if one or more of the packages leaked. [...]
Williams' book is a must read. Al Qaeda and other fanatical Islamic terrorist groups are determine to destroy the Great Satan, the U.S., and will not stop trying until they die. Negotiations only encourage them. If we do not heed warnings such as the one in this book, we are doomed to become subjects of a "peaceful Islamic Empire."
Can one or more nuclear weapons be smuggled into the U.S., hidden, and set off. Read The Rings of Allah--then answer the question for yourself.
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Paul Williams has put out a book, with a big emphasis on sources and footnotes and a scholarly appearance. Professionally put together it seems. He warns that Osama has dozens of nukes within the United States already and that the "American Hiroshima" is coming soon.
As a 911 resident, I started this book with considerable expectations and concern, but ended it almost not even wanting to bother finishing it. But I did. In some ways I see it now as another internal USA partisan type of publication, and frankly I am distracted by a "Clinton bad/Bush good" type of writing as opposed to sticking to the big issue, evaluating the threat of terrorism. I marked in my copy dozens of notes of dubious claims that are generally founded on the basis of the conspiracist logic rather than the logic of a factual analyst.
Examples:
1. Author claims that TWA 800 flight was downed by the elusive terrorist Mughniah. I understand there are people who claim TWA 800 was shot down but NO SUCH proof has been put out, and in fact when the plane went down, the FBI took the case on as a criminal case but in the end found no evidence of a bomb and the case is definitely explained as a faulty wiring in the central fuel tank. Not a terrorist attack as Williams claims.
2. The author claims that radiological bombs (dirty nukes) pose a really serious threat. The reality is that they do not pose a disastrous threat, are slightly above conventional bombs. Radiological materials could cause fear, but the reality is that walking out of the radioactive zone is in all probability sufficient to survive. Whether as Williams claims, the "American economy would go into a tailspin" is simply not based on fact.
3. Author claims (my copy page 186) that an Islamist in Florida named Hamdi brought Osama a replacement battery for OBL cell phone in May 1998. And that in August the embassies were bombed in West Africa. Allright, but Mr. Williams goes on to claim that "Bin Laden would have been incapable of orchestrating this without Tarik Hamdi and the replacement battery." Hard to prove these sort of claims. But my two questions are:
a) How can someone be responsible for OBL bombs in Africa by buying OBL a replacement cell phone battery? You know, they do have cell phone batteries outside of the USA.
But more importantly;
b) how in the world can OBL not be able to get a battery for his darn cell phone while having at his disposal up to 20 nuclear bombs within the USA and a team of nuclear experts to maintain them? This is an absolute impossibility, this cell phone battery business.
4. "When will it happen?" Asks Mr. Williams about the nuke threat. He claims that Sept 11 was an important date because of a terrorist conviction in NYC. And that Aug 7 (embassy bombings) coincide with Bush1 decision to commit to Saudi. This sort of speculative pseudo-science analysis is merely rhetorical nonsense and is a simple distraction from the event of thousands of people being murdered by psychotic mass murderers.
5. Williams quotes Cheney as "proof," during the Bush 2004 campaign trail, oh, those precious truthtelling moments! Cheney speaking of nuclear threats coming up soon. "Cheney, on the campaign trail, warned that a nuclear attack by al Qaeda appears to be imminent." If I am not mistaken, most Americans see through this sort of politician rhetoric and know that the now long discredited Bush-Cheney ticket says all sorts of things to get what THEY want.
I have at least a dozen of other examples of these sort of issues. I dont want to spend more time on them. But in my view they totally deprive the book of legitemacy, in spite of many areas being informative and great writing. I just don't know whats true there, if I, of all dumb people, can find so many errors. I hoped to be able to use the book as a reference for my fact-soup, but that is not possible without to much salt.
This leaves the issue of nuclear threat altogether up in the air as the book can not properly address the issue. Sorry to say.
So anyway, I am filing it in my bookshelf on the right side of the middle uh, well, kinda right between the far right and the middle-right.
Still waiting for the good analytical book about a nuclear threat and terrorism. The last time "they" came to our neighborhood, it was not a nice day. Any recommendations for a book without a political slant and author creativity?
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When you finish this book you will be depressed as hell and then you will realize that you ought to spend every waking moment enjoying life. Paul Williams writes well about the end of the world as we now know it and he gives great footnotes and a wonderful index for those who are into checking and rechecking.
Sadly you realize how very off the mark our government is and if you haven't thought the southern border ought to be closed up tight as can be, you will after you read about the "visitors" we have already let in. It will also hit you that somehow or other the media has not been doing its job. The information in this book is available to all and yet we rarely hear even the slightest mention of what we glean from this book.
Best story we all know is about the Muslim FBI agent who refused not just once but twice to tape record a muslim terrorist because in his words, "Muslims don't record muslims." Did the agent get fired? Did he get moved to the Department of Agriculture? No, he was sent off to be one of our FBI agents in Saudi Arabia of all places!
Please make the time to read this book. It doesn't have a political slant to it: instead it simply presents the truth about things we just must know and frankly no one comes out very well overall. But the truth is here at last.
One of the most moviing lines in the sadly unfinished HBO series "Carnivale" makes it clear that with the development of the atomic bomb, we in the human race traded wonder for reason. Reason as we have watched over the last fifty years is leading us towards doomsday and Paul Williams shows us how.
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