How to Build a Cruise Missile for $5,000 - ‘It Is Surprisingly Simple’

When readers challenged a New Zealand Web publisher’s claims that terrorists could easily build their own cruise missiles, he decided to prove it by building a $5,000 cruise missile himself and documenting his progress online

Aug. 20 —  Last week, U.S. law-enforcement officials trumpeted the arrest in New Jersey of a would-be arms dealer accused of arranging the sale of a shoulder-launch missile to an undercover agent for use in a jihad against a U.S. airliner. But Bruce Simpson is more concerned about another potential—and frightening—scenario that wouldn’t involve the purchase of missiles by terrorists, but the building of them.

 TO PROVE his point, Simpson, 49, a New Zealand Internet publisher and jet-engine consultant, is assembling a cruise missile—the same type of weapon used by U.S. forces to help win the war against Saddam Hussein earlier this year—in his garage and documenting his progress online (interestingprojects.com). He says he’s trying to show governments how easy it would be for terrorists to build the low-cost but lethal missile so that they will put more effort towards preventing such an attack. It’d be easy to dismiss him, as the FBI and Department of Defense apparently did when he contacted them initially with his concerns, if he weren’t well on his way to completing the missile and for less than $5,000. Simpson hopes to test launch the missile at the end of September if he can get the New Zealand authorities to take him as seriously as readers—including some military personnel—have since he began his project online. NEWSWEEK’s Jennifer Barrett spoke to Simpson about the details and dangers of assembling a do-it-yourself cruise missile. Excerpts:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/955176.asp?0cl=c1

This is why I believe our own government is creating the terror themselves to run the Military Industrial Complex and to keep themselves in political power. If there were really so many Al Qaeda or other terrorist they good do this themselves.

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