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I understand your point and may say the same thing if America was attacked in such a manner, but one thing I can't shake...bin Laden IMHO does not give a damn about Mecca. He cares only for power and dominance.

Do you think that if we could send a representative to OBL, and tell him that if he attacks again we will destroy Mecca, that OBL would not attack us again? I don't think so, and if I'm correct, nuking Mecca is not a deterrence.

This is a war and I've advocated in previous posts that if we ever found OBL, we should cut is head off, stick it on a stake, and put in the ground at the WTC with a sign that says, "This is what happens when people F*** with the United States of America."

Not easy answers in troubled times. Stay safe my friend.

I think that OBL is committed to Islam, and his version of Islam is supported by the text. I think he is also a megalomaniac that has grand political goals, but I think they flow from his religious views. Nothing he has ever done has shown him to be a hypocrite about religion. So, I've got to believe that he cares deeply about Mecca and that his belief system would collapse if Mecca was wiped off the face of the earth. I would have to believe that he does not want us to do that, and would not want to be remembered in history as the Moslem who caused it. But I could be wrong, and his mania may have no limits.

If so, maybe the Iranian mullahs or Pakistani tribesman who shelter him would be more protective of Islam's holiest site, and, seeing that we are serious, would rein him in. If not, if we are up against an apocalyptic guy who doesn't care if 1/2 the earth dies, and can't be tracked down, and gets nukes, then we are in for some troubled times, my friend. I don't know what I'd do then.