On October 2, 2001 the St. Petersburg Times, citing the Washington Times, reported that "U.S. intelligence agencies have uncovered information that Russian criminal groups have been supplying Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist group with components for chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons."

        The story goes on to note that "the Washington Times, citing U.S. officials speaking on condition of anonymity, reported last Wednesday that bin Laden is believed by U.S. intelligence to have a secret nuclear-weapons laboratory inside Afghanistan. This is believed to be one of the sites sought for U.S. military strikes, the newspaper said.

       There is no hard evidence that bin Laden or his followers have actually produced chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. But bin Laden has worked with Russian mafia groups in obtaining components for weapons of mass destruction, according to officials familiar with the intelligence reports."

        Further, a former State Department counter-terrorism expert, Larry Johnson, said "the contacts between the Russian mafia and bin Laden could be related to drug trafficking and that such cooperation would not be surprising."

        But how is this possible? As we "know," Russia was "consecrated" to the Immaculate Heart in 1984, and has since been undergoing one "miraculous" transformation after another. The communists have been transformed into ex-communists, and many of these have been transformed into members of the Russian mafia. Russia society has been transformed from a closed Soviet state to an open sewer of abortion, child pornography, alcoholism and suicide.

        With all of the "miracles" that have occurred in the "former Soviet Union" over the past 17 years, I suppose we should be grateful that bin Laden is not actually based in Moscow. But apparently he is getting plenty of help from the "converted" Russians in the "converted" Russian mafia.

        And when the nerve gas and anthrax weapons bin Laden develops with Russian assistance begin exploding in Western cities, what will the Fatima revisionist dupes tell us then about Russia’s conversion? No doubt they will remain as silent as they were when the Twin Towers fell. For nothing, it seems, can compel them to admit that they are wrong, and that the unprecedented acts of terrorism now erupting in the world might well have been avoided had they only told the truth about Fatima.

        As each day passes, as the violence increases, the dupes of Fatima revisionism will be haunted by the words of Our Lady of Fatima, which they tell us belong to the past: "If my requests are not granted, Russian will spread its errors throughout the world. . . and various nations will be annihilated." God help them and us.