George Bush Ignoring Threat of Nuclear Terrorism Holocaust From Al-Qaeda, Warns Author

"George Bush's obsession with the war in Iraq may prove to have catastrophic consequences for the American people," said Sheldon Filger, author of "King of Bombs," a novel about nuclear terrorism. In his novel, am American president stongly resembling George W. Bush is sidetracked by America's involvement in Iraq, unable to take seriously increasing signs that Al-Qaeda is ready to strike the U.S. homeland once again, this time with nuclear weapons.

"So much energy in Washington, along with scarce resources, is being poured into the Iraq quagmire,while the acute threat of nuclear terrorism by Al-Qaeda is getting scant attention," according to the author of "King of Bombs."

Among other examples, Mr. Filger mentioned that while the United States is spending about 10 billion dollars each month on the Iraq war, only about $1 billion per year is being spent by the Bush administration to help secure nuclear weapons and materials sites in the former Soviet Union from theft by terrorists and criminal gangs that would sell fissile material to Al-Qaeda.

"At the current rate of stingy spending and lethargic implementation, it will take at least 13 more years to secure all these sites. At present, enough highly enriched uranium and plutonium is located in the former Soviet Union under conditions of very poor security to build 60,000 nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, Al-Qaeda only needs one such weapon to obliterate cities such as New York and Washington D.C., killing hundreds of thousands of Americans."

Sheldon Filger also refered to the failure by the Bush administration to address the vulnerability of America's ports. At present, 8 million cargo containers enter American ports each year, with only a mere 5% undergoing physical inspection. Many experts believe that Al-Qaeda could easily smuggle a nuclear device into the United States by using a common shipping container.

"The Iraq war has already soaked up hundreds of billions of dollars, while only pitiful funds have been devoted to improving security at U.S. ports," Filger said. He cited the failure to improve port security as another example of the Iraq war deflecting the Bush administration from the growing threat that Al-Qaeda's next attack on American soil is likely to involve a weapon of mass destruction.

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