Again, the longer version at GlobalSecurity.Org.

And these guys DO HAVE nukes. They have them and may use them one day, somewhere.”

That is some kind of scary story, like waking up to the nightmare rather than from it.

Oh, and George, obviously you didn’t read his whole post.

Not precisely. The bathtub recipes aren’t practical unless one is already highly trained in the art and with access to unrestricted supply. In which case, they’re really not needed. As for Ypres, terrorists just can’t get the mass of chlorine needed to imitate it. They tried using chlorine in Iraq, with little or no success. And then when they found it wasn’t all they thought it would be, they abandoned it.

Anyway, it is completely out of question that you make a very solid point on the capabilities of our most dreaded terrorists: they don’t have a capability. And it is more true than what many DHS may ever reach in their wildest dreams. Today, on Internet, it is superbly easy to find nearly anything on chemical weaponry. All the WWI weaponry is here, from A to Z, with all the steps, the hints and tricks of the trade. Some of this is the same original literature that lead to Ypres btw. And what is completely hillarious – some of these “algorithms” is a simple “bathtube task” (btw some real containers didn’t make a huge difference from a bathtube). It is raw and artisan.

But. with all this here, so open and even more accessible after 8 years of “War on Terror”, why “terrors” don’t do it? Because you have to do your own homework. You need to know chemistry, have at least some experience, do some math, have patience, ponder the errors and go it all over. No, this is exactly what terrrorists don’t want to do. These guys are amateurs with failed careers and too much coca-cola in their faith. Even those raw, erron-prone and dumb cookbooks of theirs are too much literature to be digested. They want the “bomb-in-a-can”, which you easily push and makes *BUM*. These guys are stupid kids who decided to play the most stupid game of all – kill people.

But there are no “bombs-in-a-can”. Even grenades demand a little bit of knowledge and care. However you cannot make too much with grenades or even with those fashionable vests of theirs. In the end it is a loosing war, much like their Carbonaria cousins. However, it is more than a titanic task to “do it”, even if you have the right books at hand. Even then, they barely move from the spot they are stucked in. This was shown by the retrieval of a very hot book from a supposedly “hot” site. They had everything. But did Zero.

Anyway, their total incapacity shall not be intepreted to a conclusion that they are unable to create a mess. These guys, sometimes, have strokes of genius. Wicked genius, but childish. Yes, to get a cargo plane, stuff it with high-grade explosives and drop it into Pentagon was too much an effort. It was too much logistics, tactics, maneuvers, second-thinking, calculations, risks. They found the easiest way by boarding an usual air carrier and divert it. For their “bomb-in-a-can” minds it was the perfect idea. And here DD, you are absolutely right on bashing more than 90% of scenarios made by Pentagon, DHS and alikes. They are based on the “Evil Genius” concept, but we are dealing with script-kiddies of terrorism.

However this is where we get into a big problem that everyone, even you DD, seem to miss: terror psychadelics are giving ground for the creation of new organisations and forms. Not only terrorists mature, others are considering that terrorism is not such a bad tactic at all. Much like Carbonaria and Narodnaya Volya evolved into hardcore communist factions and nazis, modern terrorism is mutating on a similar fashion. Let’s be clear – who are the Talibanis? They are the modern version of the famous SS’s Sonderkommandos. And their strikingly similarity is not chance, one can find a few things that trace a path between them. The two big problems why we don’t see this is because there are individual specifics and the “raw” material is completely different (Taliban’s base has a much harder kind of meat to chew). However, the “sponsors” have not only managed to stand hidden at backstage but also are wise learned guys and they love working on the warboard.

And these guys DO HAVE nukes. They have them and may use them one day, somewhere.