I have no doubt that there are some nukes of some sort in the US just waiting.
(I always remember the story JFK -- the original, not JFKerry!--told to Hugh Sidey. That the Russians had one at their embassy in DC...it wouldn't surprise me if ME diplomats have pulled this too.)
Here's what puzzles me though.
Why would terrorists use them? The areas will be uninhabitable for decades.
Are they so ignorant that they don't realize it? (I know their scientists know otherwise.) Or do they just figure they can wait decades to collect our land once it's cleaned up?
Anybody have any guesses/ideas?
they will? Hiroshima was uninhabitable for decades?
Sure..they don't want the land.
They simply want to make us pull out of Iraq, the ME in general, etc.
A few well-placed nukes would accomplish the objective quite nicely. Kind of a "we have more. Now, want to reconsider?".
Let's hope they don't.
I wonder the same thing. I've read over and over in their rants their reasoning for using WMD- along with apologies to the American people and to the impact of their actions on "future generations". Not good. The latter implies lingering bio/rad. They say that they have weighed the pros and cons, and have taken it all into account- and will use the wmd "hittings."
Then they have some cleric issue "judgements" or something like that-saying it is justified to use these weapons against us because we are the enemies of Islam.
CIA Shuffles Jobs in Light of Threats
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040606/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_bad_timing_3
Hardly more than 'he who flung camel dung' by day and terrorist by night.
Certainly the more educated know that nukes are devastating.
However, it is not as though their science has moderated their understanding of reality a great deal. It seems to me their science has mostly made their efforts more deadly.
Their religious idiocy and zeal seem to mostly give them incredible tunnel vision. That tunnel vision seems focused on essentially one thing:
I don't think even the educated Jihadi's think that much about how much devastation will result though they have already apologized ahead of time to the citizens of the world for doing so. Maybe they think about it some.
They clearly think that the devastation is a small price to pay for Islam being king and only force on the dung heap that's left after their rage and idiocy have born the fruit of their sowing their seeds of hate.
They clearly have no clue that the same puppet masters that have wound them up to devastate so many millions--err--'cleansing the world' of so many millions-in-the-way-of-the-puppet master's 'enlightened' leadership . . . the Jihadi's have no clue that once the dirty broom [the Jihadi's] have done their dirty work, they, too will be incinerated. The Anti-Christ will have no other gods before him--to the extent he can get away with it in time duration and breadth of influence.
But for now, the Jihadi's have received only fuel, permission, orders, assistance, etc. from the puppet masters. They understandably believe they are going to get away with triggering WWIII for the establishment of a totally Moslem world. They are deceived, deluded and drunken on the notion, on their rage, on violence, on pride, on their idiocy, on their revenge for perceived centuries of slight etc. And, they are bloodthirsty in all the worst ways.
The only worst thing . . . is the rebellion against God in our own land--which makes fighting the Jihadi's harder and which sets up so many to be traitors in our midst in the name of individual and group rebellions against virtually any authority but their own and definitely against the Judean Christian God Almighty.
IMhO, of course,