[oceanview]

seriously, the idea that the same group that has to hijack the weapons they use, like planes, is just sitting around with a nuke and posting on the net the date they will drop it is frankly, nuts. most likely, this is just rah-rah stuff to rally the ignorant muslims who are drawn to their cause.

by the time february rolls around, they will move the date to April, then June, etc.

[jstolzen]

Hey, oceanview..I like YOUR interpretation of this much, MUCH better than my own.

Personally, I think AQ **DOES** have WMD.

Go read: worldthreats.com for an analysis of why. It scared the bajeebus out of me.

But, you are indeed thinking the same that I've been: IF AQ has WMD, why on earth are they chasing hijacked airplanes to use in an attack?

It is either a diversion, or they DON'T have WMD.

Guess we'll find out by 2/4.

- J

[StillProud2BeFree]

Oceanview,

I have no clue - I hope you're right. Logic says you are. After all, terrorism is simply psyops. It's a mind game. If they scare us, they win points. They scare us badly enough and often enough, they win. I translated something this week that was pretty telling. It was the "Voice of Jihad" from last week, and in it it said something to the effect that we (the Americans) had been driven out of Saudi Arabia. The basis of this conclusion was the embassy sending home nonessential personnel and dependents, and providing them with free tickets. That was perceived as a sign of weakness. They scared us, we left. Ergo, they won.

But I am also concerned that the United States does not truly perceive the depth of the threats we are facing. Basically since the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, children through much of the middle east have been raised to hate the west in general, and America (the Great Satan) specifically, as an agent of Israel. You see this in the television shows the youngest kids watch. It's not as bad in countries like Jordan (largely likes to the influence of Queen Nour, who is an American) and in Egypt (again, President Mubarak's wife Suzanne is the daughter of a British woman), but it is endemic in the west bank, in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and in many of the Gulf states.

Many of these young people have been molded since infancy to think that the highest honor they can achieve is to strap a bomb belt on and blow themselves and a bunch of infidels (that means us) up.

This problem wasn't created overnight and it's not going to be solved overnight. And the governments that created and funded these TV shows are now being threatened by the Frankenstein monsters of their own creation.

Last night on Fox News, they interviewed a man who said that his friend in Saudi Arabia was afraid of his own children. He would walk into his teenaged daughter's room, and she'd turn on Britney Spears, then as soon as he'd leave she'd switch bad to jihad songs.

Just my thoughts.

[JustPiper]

by the time february rolls around, they will move the date to April, then June, etc.

If and when that happens I will be happy to see it