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Hi Stolie. What is troubling to me, is the prevaling theme of blowing us to kingdom come, in the short term future. It's prevasive and reported in various legitimate news sources, most posted and linked in this thread. If it was from one or two sources, then, yeah, I'd never glance at it, much less consider it. However, it's a central theme that they haven't moved off of, yet.

Since OBL declared war on America, in l995 (I think), the attacks have become nastier. Another trend has been OBL'S determination to acquire nukes. The recent news coming out from the worldwide nuke watchers, is not good. In fact, it looks like it's become a buyers market for nukes and material. Altogether, very disturbing.

True. But, don't ya think that maybe they are performing "jihad by the pen"?

Me, I think the huge amount of threats coming out of multiple sources is a kinda of jihadi wet dream/group-think. Just like when you have a crowd or group of people, and a common thought starts to permeate the community. Happens in normal life (eg: "Bush is an idiot", "It was a huge right-wing conspiracy", etc). Point being..repeat something often enough, and even those who don't hold the same point of view to start with begin to repeat it ad-naseum.

On the flip side, perhaps there is something to it. But I really don't think so. And, you have to consider - most of the "warnings" are coming out of 'net message boards. Me..I just don't take that as a "credible" source.

Now, if one of the "official" AQ types were to come out and say something like "we will destroy an American city on Tuesday. Stay tuned to your media", I would believe it.

But..ya gotta admit..99% of the "threats" we are seeing are coming from Websites and message boards.

Could just as easily be: Groupthink, jihadi "wet dreams", "jihad by the keyboard" or (my guess) a small # of people getting their (twisted) kicks.

All in all, I would bet that we will all be here and just fine on Feb 5. Matter of fact, let's all plan parties to celebrate the fact that we will be.