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Actually, every piece of evidence that was leading to the nuclear claims was proven false, so there's no indication he is even still trying for nuclear weapons.
Second, suitcase nukes would take a world superpower's resources to pull off. Creating a nuclear bomb is not a trivial task, miniatiurizing the detonation technology to fit inside a suitcase would be nearly impossible without a tremendous amount of resources. Further, getting a nuclear weapon working is not easy, and the second you do testing to see if your weapons will work, the whole world knows.
I think the only nations that could build suitcase bombs would be the US, Russia, and likely China.
Further, fighting terrorism while at the same time creating more potential terrorists is a losing battle. If we want to stop terrorism, we must look to the reason people become terrorists, and fight that problem. In a recent poll by Zogby and the U of Maryland found that, since the war began, 95% of Saudis, 91% of Moroccans, 80% of Jordanians, 79% of Egyptians, and 59% of Lebanese thought negatively of the US. Making an overwhelming marority of the Arab world hate us will not stop terrorism. Bin Laden was already a folk hero to many, how many more recruits will he get now?
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