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From an interview to be published Monday:

Osama bin Laden's terror network claims to have bought ready-made nuclear weapons on the black market in central Asia, [Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir], the biographer of al-Qaida's No. 2 leader, was quoted as telling an Australian television station.

In the interview with Australian Broadcasting Corp. television, parts of which were released Sunday, Mir recalled telling al-Zawahri it was difficult to believe that al-Qaida had nuclear weapons when the terror network didn't have the equipment to maintain or use them.

"Dr Ayman al-Zawahri laughed and he said `Mr. Mir, if you have $30 million, go to the black market in central Asia, contact any disgruntled Soviet scientist, and a lot of ... smart briefcase bombs are available,'" Mir said in the interview.

"They have contacted us, we sent our people to Moscow, to Tashkent, to other central Asian states and they negotiated, and we purchased some suitcase bombs," Mir quoted al-Zawahri as saying.
(via AP)

The program to control loose nukes in the former Soviet Union was, of course, gutted by Bush. Reckless indifference to loose nukes and dirty bombs in terrorist hands is one of the hallmarks of Bush's policy (back here).

Heck, the nukes threaten cities. Cities vote Blue, so they're traitors, and besides: they got a lot of people in 'em who should be cleansed with the fire from heaven anyhow. Fuck 'em.