Blinding Horizon: Bin Laden's Quest for
the Bomb
 The year
is 2002 and the most horrifying legacy of
September 11th is the realization that no
threat scenario is impossible. With the war
on terrorism still waging in Afghanistan,
the US faces the likelihood that another
attack can happen at any moment. Next time
however, the perpetrators may be armed with
nuclear weapons.
In Blinding Horizon, Peter
Bergen, author of the best seller Holy
War Inc., and the first western TV
journalist to interview Osama Bin Laden,
investigates the secret world of nuclear
smuggling to answer the ultimate question:
is al Qaeda capable of carrying out a
nuclear attack on the United States?
Bergen meets with experts around the
globe and his investigation reveals some
frightening possibilities. An al Qaeda
attack could come in a variety of different
forms, the most likely being a nuclear
suitcase bomb or a "dirty bomb" where
radioactive matter is wrapped around
conventional explosives. Peter Bergen's
investigation leaves him with a more
disturbing possibility than the one he
started out with: the possibility that
Osama Bin Laden can threaten not only the
US, but the entire world with nuclear
terrorism.
Blinding Horizon is the sequel to
the television special Holy War Inc
and was shown to US
lawmakers on October 17th, 2002 during a
Congressional subcommittee hearing on
"Securing America: The Federal Government's
Response to Nuclear Terrorism at Our
Nation's Ports and Borders".
The program
won a 2003 Silver Omni Award.
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