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I realize you are quite sound in your reasoning . . .

perhaps or almost totally . . .

I still believe you underestimate the capacity of money in those regions of the world to buy whatever is needed to maintain whatever is desired to be maintained

INCLUDING

nukes.

I also believe that SOME in AlQaeda are not idiots in SOME respects. 9/11, while rife with mistakes, also demonstrated a sophisticated amount of planning and cleverness.

Yes, I quite agree that panic is likely to be a challenge under a number of scenarios.

Who knows who is responsible for what part of the chatter. Given that our best security analysts are paying some attention to at least some of it . . . perhaps laymen ought to consider it more important than 0.000%.

In terms of the rants of purported AlQaeda or their sympathesizers . . . a LOT of the phrasing is consistent with a LOT of their mentality.

They are given to extreme emotions and volume when standing an inch from each other's noses carrying on a very calm, casual conversation. It is not surprising that such rants sound shrill and extreme to us. I don't know how they account for, discount for or deal with hyperbole when it seems like hyperbole is the foundational START of their emotionality in communicating.

I think it is fairly hazardous to depend too confidently on too many of our endemic western assumptions with regard to AlQaeda.

And, short of God's own or via whatever even such as ET interventions, I believe that sooner or later--and probably somewhat sooner than later--AlQaeda will set off more than a dirty bomb but at least that.

I don't see it remotely automatic at all that if they'd had them, they'd have used them before now. That just does not follow logically at all for me, much less automatically so. There are possibly dozens upon dozens of reasons why they might wait until a time they saw such as bringing them THEIR biggest public, publicity, emotional, spiritual, destructive . . . whatever . . . BANG for their efforts. Their logic in such matters is not at all necessarily our logic.