Inside Al Qaeda's Plot to Nuke America  (Paperback, Sunil Sharan)

What would be the cost to the US of a nuke explosion in a city like New York? It could be in the trillions of dollars. 9/11 itself has led to America wasting trillions just in lost wars. A nuke explosion is coming. How should America prevent it? Bin Laden had a bounty of $25 million on his head. Three people are believed to have outed him. A Pakistani polio doctor, a retired brigadier of the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and believe it or not, the then-Pakistani army chief, Ashfaq Kayani. The polio doctor rots in jail in Pakistan today. The retired ISI brigadier got his cut and moved to the US with his family under America's witness protection program. The army chief got the lion's share. Without betraying Bin Laden, upon retirement from the army, the army chief would anyway have led a lord's life in Pakistan. But he took his booty and decamped to Australia where he lives like a king. Now the head of Al Qaeda is Al Zawahiri. Zawahiri believes, rightly or wrongly, that the US has been responsible, directly or indirectly, for between five and ten million Muslims dying after 9/11. The figure of five million seems more accurate; ten million seems to be somewhat of an exaggeration. Still, Zawahiri wants revenge for even those five million deaths. He wants to nuke America. He is 68. This is his last wish before he folds his eyes, as he says. Zawahiri has been pursuing a nuclear bomb project for years. Now he's got everything in place. He was struggling to get the bomb material. The Pakistanis have deployed tactical nukes called Nasrs in the field against India. There are between 300-500 Nasrs in the field, all under the operational control of field commanders.