From SBS Australia:

Al-Qaeda’s assets are now valued at $(US)5 billion. Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir says that when he interviewed Osama bin Laden in 2001, the terrorist leader claimed to have purchased nuclear weapons – as a defensive measure. Mir believes bin Laden has purchased a suitcase bomb – a device developed in Russia by the KGB.

Ex CIA-agent Robert Baer says the obsession by the American administration with Osama bin Laden is misguided, “Osama bin Laden – is a way for them to focus people on an enemy which is – they don’t even know who it is…” Many transactions are between the “Red Mafia” – Russian organised crime networks and terrorist organisations other than al-Qaeda. The Republic of Kazakhstan plays a key role in this drugs for nuclear arms trade – the administration in Kazakhstan is highly corrupt and there is no proper customs control between the Russian and Kazakhstan borders.