Posted on 01/26/2006 9:11:12 AM PST by 1curiousmind
Hey, it is just a bunch of overgrown boys playing a game. Let's keep things in perspective.
They're gonna hi-jack the Good Year blimb?
That's about right. One town near Detroit voted to allow the local muezzin to screach over microphones five times daily..
Rest assured, Jack Bauer is already hot on the trail.
WRONG !
The site of the Superbowl is know several years in advance.
It's only the teams who will play in the bowl that is decided at a late date.
Detroit has been scheduled for this bowl for several years.
p.s. Downtown Dearborn is LESS than 8 miles from Ford Field.
Please, take out Detroit, Al-Qaeda. You'd be doing the rest of Michigan a huge favor!
I would advise Osama not to mess with Steelers fans.
Another Clancy novel...The Sum of All Fears. Nuc detonation at a superdome.
I'm more suspect of the porous Canadian border, and Canada's lack immigration policies. People have complained about the next terrorists entering from Mexico, but I think Canada is the big threat.
CC
Considering that the "latest" Osama Tape could be as much as a year old. It's possible that the Super Bowl could be a potential target.
So could LAX, The Pentagon, Washington, DC; any nuclear powerplant or myriad Targets Of Opportunity.
In other words, Business As Usual, Post September 11th.
Jack.
They can just detonate Windsor and get Detroit as collateral
Dearborn has the largest Arabic speaking population in the world outside of the Middle East.
"American Hiroshima" has nothing to do with a dirty bomb, IMHO. A dirty bomb is too unwieldly, too uncertain as to the amount of damage/contamination could occur. "Hirsohima" took many more lives that an dirty bomb could.
With Iran so close to getting the material to build its own atomic weaponry, and given their patience, I don't see a nuclear terrorist event occuring on our soil at this time. It would be much less trouble for Iran to simply build a suitcase nuke and give it to bin Laden for the proxy destruction of an American city.
I would go out on a limb and say that any Al Qaeda attacks on American soil at this point would be of the conventional variety, but perhaps with a Chem or Bio component (which would of course make it non-conventional). Specifically, I'm guessing we're going to see our first overt AQ suicide bombings on American soil. And it's going to happen quickly, and preferably (for Iran) before any conflicts between Israel and Iran. It may even be used as the lynchpin to start a Mid-East war - e.g. a quasi-Archduke Ferdinand scenario where AQ attacks the U.S. and the U.S. decides to retaliate against Iran...
Don't doubt for one second that AQ, Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah aren't in concert here. They're brewing the perfect storm, and with Hamas taking over in Palestinian territories, the cake might be ready to bake.
"The location was only determined a week ago by a football game."
You're mistaken there. Detroit has been the site for quite some time.
"That "American Hiroshima" was reported in World Net Daily as the phrase used by terrorists. I didn't make it up."
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I know you didn't make it up, it was made up a long time ago and continually predicted about every 6 months since then.
The logistics of hauling around and adequately maintaining a nuclear bomb of Hiroshima size in secret for soooooo long is just so freakin far fetched its just too hard to believe.
Yeah 911 was hard to believe too but far far far more easy to pull off than an American Hiroshima.
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