A Potential Nuclear Threat?

Thursday, July 17, 2008 By Paul M. Weyrich Does Osama bin Laden possess nuclear weapons? Has he smuggled these weapons into the United States? Does he have a plan to detonate these weapons in multiple American cities if Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear facilities? Dr. Hugh Cort, president of the American Foundation for Counter-Terrorism Policy and Research, believes the answer to all of those questions is yes. Cort has assembled a body of evidence which he claims supports the view that bin Laden has a plan for an “American Hiroshima” that will be implemented in the near future. He has sent this material to various U.S. officials, including FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III. Cort believes that the government is not doing enough to prevent an attack. Much of his evidence centers around Hamid Mir, a Pakistani journalist who has... [read full story]