Posted on 04/11/2010 9:33:03 AM PDT by Velveeta
Obama amputates our nuclear arms
By: Charles Krauthammer
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Under President Obama’s new policy, however, if the state that has just attacked us with biological or chemical weapons is “in compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty,” explained Gates, then “the U.S. pledges not to use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against it.”
Imagine the scenario: Hundreds of thousands are lying dead in the streets of Boston after a massive anthrax or nerve gas attack. The president immediately calls in the lawyers to determine whether the attacking state is in compliance with the NPT. If it turns out that the attacker is up-to-date with its latest IAEA inspections, well, it gets immunity from nuclear retaliation. (Our response is then restricted to bullets, bombs and other conventional munitions.)
However, if the lawyers tell the president that the attacking state is NPT noncompliant, we are free to blow the bastards to nuclear kingdom come.
This is quite insane. It’s like saying that if a terrorist deliberately uses his car to mow down a hundred people waiting at a bus stop, the decision as to whether he gets hanged or 100 hours of community service hinges entirely on whether his car had passed emissions inspections.
Apart from being morally bizarre, the Obama policy is strategically loopy. Does anyone believe that North Korea or Iran will be more persuaded to abjure nuclear weapons because they could then carry out a biological or chemical attack on the United States without fear of nuclear retaliation?
The naivete is stunning.
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France threatened in alleged Bin Laden tape
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/10/27/france.bin.laden/index.html
— video
http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/10/27/sots.bin.laden.cnn
— France: Bin Laden warns France over Afghan war, veil ban
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h_WrlTwCEiL75NEa1-66RvXda4pw
— Report: French minister calls terror threat ‘real’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/27/AR2010102705932.html
— Osama bin Laden threatens France
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/kill-and-be-killed-osama-bin-laden-tells-france/story-e6frg6so-1225944520879
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DC Terror Plot to Bomb Metro Subway Stops - Farooque Ahmed
— FBI Press Release: Virginia Man Arrested for Plotting Attacks on D.C.-Area Metro Stations with People He Believed to Be al Qaeda Members
http://washingtondc.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/wfo102710.htm
— US Man Arrested In Bomb Plot to Attack Washington Subway - Pakistani-American Farooque Ahmed
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/US-Citizen-Arrested-for-Plot-to-Attack-Washington-Subway-105890098.html
— Farooque Ahmed Federal Indictment in DC Metro Bomb Plot
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/documents/metro-plot/AhmedIndictment102610.pdf
— Video: Press Conference with Metro’s Chief of Police, Michael Taborn on arrest of Farooque Ahmed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmyJO5Pue4I&;
Feds arrest N.Va. man in D.C. Metro bomb plot
— Washington Post:
“Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, conspired with people he believed to be al-Qaeda operatives to attack the stations at Arlington National Cemetery, Pentagon City, Crystal City, and Court House, the indictment said.”
“Federal law enforcement authorities have arrested a Northern Virginia man in connection with an alleged plot to carry out a series of terrorist bombings at stations in the Washington Metro system, according to a federal indictment.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/27/AR2010102704857.html?hpid=topnews
— DC Metro Stops targeted in bomb plot were Pentagon City, Crystal City, and Court House, and Arlington Cemetery Metro
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/10/27/GA2010102706422.html?sid=ST2010102705265
— Farooque Ahmed: Neighbors describe the Metro plot suspect
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/checkpoint-washington/2010/10/farooque_ahmed_neighbors_recal.html
— FBI nabs former Staten Island man charged in plot to bomb Washington D.C. subway system
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/10/27/2010-10-27_virginia_man_charged_by_fbi_in_terror_plot_to_bomb_washington_dc_metro_subway_sy.html
— Pakistani-born Virginian held in Metro terror plot
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/27/va-man-arrested-plot-attack-metro-stations/
— Va. man accused of plotting bomb attacks at Metro station
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Va_-man-accused-of-plotting-bomb-attacks-at-Metro-stations-1353210-105908878.html
— Man arrested over ‘terror plot’ to bomb Washington DC trains
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8091704/Man-arrested-over-terror-plot-to-bomb-Washington-DC-trains.html
— Man charged over Washington subway ‘terror plot’
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/28/washington-man-charged-subway-fbi
-— A personal note: at one of those locations I could have been a target....
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Ahmed arrested for DC bomb plot - I can’t get any of it to copy to paste
http://www.emergencyemail.org/newsemergency/anmviewer.asp?a=697&z=1&ref=fem
http://www.emergencyemail.org/newsemergency/anmviewer.asp?a=698&z=34&ref=fem
US loses communication with 50 nuclear missiles for 45 minutes Saturday
Mr. RR was stationed at F. E. Warren AFB years ago. He worked on those missile silos. They are scattered all over Wyoming.
Any reports of UFO activity at that time?........ ;)
Haaaaa - I never thought of UFO’s
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/10/28/skywest-plane-makes-emergency-landing-incendiary-device-board/
DEVELOPING: A Skywest airplane has made an emergency landing in Salt Lake City after an “incendiary device” was reported to be onboard, Fox13now.com reports.
The plane — with 46 people onboard — is now grounded, according to the station.
The aircraft is being taken to a secure location to be searched. All passengers have been removed.
SkyWest flight 4654 reportedly departed Helena, Mont., at 6:15 a.m. and landed in Salt Lake City at 6:38 a.m.
[This came from the OSINT group and does not have a date, is it NEW or old news?]
That was today.......... haven’t found an update.
According to FOX they didn’t find anything. All clear.
Farooque Ahmed LinkedIn Profile Information
http://www.unitedstatesaction.com/dc-metro-bomb-plot.html#LinkedIn
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DC: Farooque Ahmed Investigation - October 28, 2010
— AP: Muslim source turned in terror suspect
http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=25&sid=2095662
— DC Metro Police consider drastic measures after failed terror plot
http://wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=2097181
— DC Metro Transit Police Chief: “We Will Definitely Look At” Random Searches
http://dcist.com/2010/10/metro_transit_police_chief_we_will.php
— FBI Says Terror Suspect Wanted to Fight US Abroad
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/Terror-Suspect-Wanted-to-Fight-US-Abroad-106116299.html
— Man accused of metro bomb plot trained for Afghanistan
-— AFP: “A Pakistani-American man arrested on charges of plotting to bomb the Washington metro was in training to go to Afghanistan and had experience with firearms, the FBI alleged in a court document released Thursday.”
-— FBI: “Ahmed wishes to fight Jihad himself, and (said) that he has trained to do so using various firearms”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hEzH9Ui7KlRc046fglT6c1ATAiRA
-— Man arrested in DC plot trained for Afghanistan
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69R4Q820101028
-— Suspect in D.C. Metro bomb plot sought to fight U.S. troops overseas, records say
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/28/AR2010102803082.html
-— NYPD Issues Threat Note After Va. Arrest
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/10/28/nypd-issues-threat-note-after-va-arrest/
-— Terror Suspect Next Door Just ‘A Normal Guy’
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2010/10/terror-suspect-next-door-just.html
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SkyWest Plane Searched After Reported Bomb Threat
Published October 28, 2010
| FoxNews.com
A commuter jet from Montana was searched in Salt Lake City Thursday after a
telephone threat of an explosive onboard.
[No explosive found...]
[Speaking of dry runs, San Diego Police is being hit hard with them, this morning, it was an ammunition box [military type], found in the middle of a park trail, “placed there as if it was meant to be found”.....]
Harder to catch the big scanner reports, as they have gone to the new scanner equipment and we no longer hear the really interesting reports, unless, as the ammo box report, it was given as an “you should know” broadcast to all the Officers.
granny]
DPS officer assaulted, police vehicle stolen after traffic stop on
pickup ...
Tucson Citizen
A DPS traffic stop on a stolen truck uncovered a pickup packed with seven
suspected illegal aliens, one of whom assaulted an officer then stole a
police ...
http://tucsoncitizen.com/rynski/2010/10/27/dps-officer-assaulted-police-vehicle-stolen-after-traffic-stop-on-pickup-packed-with-suspected-illegal-aliens/comment-page-1/
See all stories on this topic:
http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://tucsoncitizen.com/rynski/2010/10/27/dps-officer-assaulted-police-vehicle-stolen-after-traffic-stop-on-pickup-packed-with-suspected-illegal-aliens/comment-page-1/&hl=en&geo=us
BREAKING: 2 UPS Planes Isolated At Philadelphia International Airport [radiological component?]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2617013/posts
CNN: Suspicious devices may have been bound for Chicago synagogues
A suspicious package containing a toner cartridge with wires and powder was found during routine screening of cargo in the United Kingdom, prompting authorities to scour vehicles in the United States on Friday. Planes in Philadelphia and Newark, N.J., were being swept, as was a truck in New York City.
Officials were investigating whether the suspicious packages were a dry run for a mail bomb plot.
CNN reported that sources believe the devices that came from Yemen were intended for Chicago synagogues. Frances Fragos Townsend, former Homeland Security adviser in the Bush administration, said American intelligence had been informed within the last 24 hours about devices on flights from the Middle East intended for synagogues in Chicago.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/10/bomb-reportedly-found-on-yemen-to-chicago-flight.html
Suspicious package in downtown San Francisco per FOX
Hole found in plane that took off from Miami
A 1-foot-by-2-foot hole tore open in the fuselage of a commercial airliner that suddenly lost cabin pressure shortly after taking off from Miami, authorities said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2617162/posts
FOX news update:
Dry run bomb plot?
Suspicious packages, Dubai, Yemen, Newark, Philadelphia on UPS flights.
All cargo flights now on high alert.
Nationwide aviation security high alert.
Synagogues, churches and mosques on high alert.
There could be more packages on the way.
Could be that this was “dry run”.
AQAP al Qaeda in the arabian Peninsula - Anwar Al-Awlaki is prime suspect. (mastermind of failed Christmas bomber plot)
FBI: All Chicago religious institutions on alert
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=7753847&rss=rss-twi-wls-article-7753847&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
FOX reporting up to 20 packages could be involved.
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