TERRORISM and COUNTERTERRORISM: News, INFORMATION & Analysis #2

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?

. . . . Ping

Just found this on another website:

(ABC News - Dated June 3, 2011 - (Excerpted)

NEW AQ VIDEO - American Muslims Should Buy Guns, Start Shooting People

PHOTO: American-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn calls on Muslims living in America to carry out deadly one-man terrorist acts

By MATTHEW COLE
June 3, 2011

In a new video message released on the internet Friday, American-born al Qaeda spokesman

Adam Gadahn calls on Muslims living in America to carry out deadly one-man terrorist acts using fully automatic weapons purchased at gun shows, and to target major institutions and public figures.

“What are you waiting for?” asks Gadahn in English, and then adds that jihadis shouldn’t worry about getting caught, since so many have been released. “Over these past few years, I’ve seen the release of many, many Mujahideen whom I had never even dreamed would regain their freedom.”

The two-part, two hour video appeared on jihadi websites Friday with images of jihadi leaders as well as snapshots of alleged underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan. Both Hasan and Abdulmutallab are charged with carrying out attacks inside the U.S.

Called “Do Not Rely on Others, Take the Task Upon Yourself” and produced by al Qaeda’s media arm, as Sahab, the tape mixes Gadahn’s new message with clips from old videos of Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and other al Qaeda leaders praising one-man attacks.

They call on jihadis in the West to carry out lone wolf operations.

Gadahn sounds the same theme in his message, a series of soundbites interspersed throughout the video and accompanied by images of U.S. airliners, bombmaking and the logos of U.S. companies.

“Muslims in the West have to remember that they are perfectly placed to play an important and decisive part in the Jihad against the Zionists and crusaders, and to do major damage to the enemies of Islam, waging war on their religion, sacred places, and things, and brethren,” says Gadahn. “This is a golden opportunity and a blessing.”

He urges Muslims to pursue attacks with whatever is available. “Let’s take America as an example. America is absolutely awash with easily obtainable firearms. You can go down to a gun show at the local convention center and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle, without a background check, and most likely without having to show an identification card. So what are you waiting for?”

Gadahn suggests targeting major institutions — after a clip showing the logos of such firms as Exxon, Merrill Lynch and Bank of America — and “influential public figures...”

He claims that many Western born or raised jihadis, the “brothers who came from abroad” are now thinking about returning to their “Crusader” countries to “discharge their duty of jihad.”

He also says not to worry about imprisonment, since so many have been jihadis have been set free.

“If it’s Allah’s will that you be captured, then it’s not the end the world, and it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re going to spend the rest of your life in prison.”

Many mujahideen who were locked up “are now back home with their families, or back on the frontlines, fighting the enemies.”

Gadahn, a 32-year-old California native, was born Adam Pearlman, the grandson of a Jewish urologist. His parents changed their name to Gadahn after becoming fundamentalist Christians. After converting to Islam, Gadahn moved to Pakistan in 1998 and then became a senior commander in al Qaeda.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/al-qae...4#.Ts8S_LL4Jx1

Excellent and straight from the shoulder analysis by an Egyptian journalist and an Iranian analyst on Obama’s insidious alliance with the Moslem Brotherhood terrorists and the possibly treasonous damage he is doing in the world.

“It’s all the fault of the British” is an age old commentary in Iran about everything happening in the world being a conspiracy by Britain and this peeks out - with some justification - in the Iranian’s analysis.

The “blackwash” on Britain had lots of merit when that country was a world power and quite happy to be underhanded and often quite nasty in its policies.

BTW, are we forgetting that Obama’s father was British and Obama may still be? So his treacherous mindsets may well be in total character (smile) though maybe not bloodline.

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/11/where-are-moslem-brotherhood-and-obama.html

Gee, are they calling the explosion today an accident as well? What was that Ian Flemming line? “Once is accident, twice is coincidence, three times it’s enemy action?” (courtesy SoJCo)

Today’s Isfahan explosion is the second of the three Ian Fleming events.

Hopefully, if enquiry channels work, I may know more about it tomorrow.

The problem with assessing the event till adequate detail is received is that the most of the Isfahan nuclear activity is buried underground below the center of the city population and if that were what went up, we would expect enormous, hard to conceal, civilian fatalities.

As pure speculation for now, this was another missile launch site location that went bang.

This fits with targeted activity by those opposed to a nuclear aggressive profile against Israel or anyone else.

With the recent rather appeasing declarations - showing weakness of the Supreme Ruler toward his opponents, even within the Bassiji Suppression forces and the IRGC, who do not wish to commit suicide with Khamenei’s policies and Ahmadi-Nejad’s mad incitation to destroy Israel, and thus ending up with an attack by Israel HAVING to take place.

Obama’s support for Islam in general and Iran in particular (specially a nuclear one) and his open disdain for Israel and its existence and his attempt to get rid of Israel through the Moslem Brotherhood and its activities in Egypt, Jordan and even Syria, adds weight to his effort to cover Iran’s actions till they reach a complete nuclear capacity status.

By contrast, Iran is not in a mood to be nice to Obama other than giving him some wiggle room with the arrest of a dozen or more alleged CIA operatives. They need to build a basis for any forthcoming attack on them by Israel or an ever increasingly agitated Europe/NATO, so Obama will be their fall guy. And for a change he is going under the bus and not the scores of people he has self-servingly abandoned.

As they say in Persian, the apple is still in the air and spinning - so the result is not yet clear nor final.

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