Posted on 06/30/2004 4:57:05 AM PDT by 7.62 x 51mm
I don't make this stuff up; just reporting on what I've heard. Truly ruined my day.
</ Loading up the AR-10 and Class III AR-15s > As if that'll do any damned good.
No. Has to be real.
Huh-huh, you said 'blow'.
Unless they're waiting for just before the election or during the conventions.
The interview sounded credible, and even shook-up Dennis Edwards, the morning drive host.
Sure, leave the nukes lying around for months...
Hell, the explosives are likely to decompose enough that they don't go off.
These reports have been out ever since 9-11, but not as well reported as Brokaw's insistence that there is no WMD or linkage between Iraq and 9-11.
The threat isn't as significant for a handful or even 40 nukes being depolyed by surprise, as was the intel reports of Iraq constructing, fabricating and deploying a partitioned assembly line to produce such devices with the assembly line mounted on tractor-trailer rigs. This was considered the real threat and even if discovered as evidence of WMD, I don't know of any intel community or national level authority who would be stupid enough to release the proof publicly.
These reports were in the press and international political reporting scene between 1990 and 2000. Prior to 1994, British private press reports indicated Iran had purchased nukes from a fallen USSR, explicitly with the purpose of hitting any US task force north of the Straits of Hormutz and nothing happened later when US Amphibious Task Forces floated off shore during Gulf War I.
On the good news side,...it generally takes substantial industrial hi-tech, maintenance capacity, to maintain such devices in an operable condition. They deteriorate with time. So even if they are provided to a terrorist, unless they are immediately detonated, they become less dangerous as a nuclear blast hazard, than as a local radioactive risk. Additionally, whoever becomes then associated with such a device, has simply committed themselves to being easily identified,...the clandestine nature of the delivery which is the terrorist's major advantage,...as soon as that is lost, he's impotent because he is no longer creating terror, merely a known proponent of evil targetable as an enemy by everybody.
Perhaps the best tactic is simply to accept that we are going to get hit by 40 suitcase nukes and have that threat accepted in the public mind. That way if we get hit, by several over a delayed period of time with threatening communicatos, terror isn't promoted. Instead, a reasoned response to the real threat will help guide our thinking, decisions, and actions appropriately.
It needs to be emphasized that the tactics of terror are promoted by those who advocate revolution, communism, and later socialism. Wherever we observe terrorism, be on the lookout for the machinations of socialists being placed into action to advance their agenda.
No Suitcase Nookie for me.
I don't do midgets... ahem, "Small People."
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Fine, so the guy can sound convincing as he's bulls**tting you.
Unless this guy can demonstrate how al-Qaeda can suspend the laws of physics (specifically, radioactive decay), he's still a bulls**tter.
foreverfree
I think this guy has a book to sale.
I have a steamer trunk.
I don't believe this. If they had them, they'd have used them by now.
Whatever you do, DO NOT google image: suitcase midget.
I'm going to wash my eyes now.
I think its a bad analogy. To be a better analogy, the terrorists would need to gain access to 4 jetliners, park them in a hidden location for months or years, and then take the planes out of mothballs, and fly them into buildings with a full fuel load.
If you get a weapon, use the weapon. That was 9-11. This nuke thing pre-supposes that the Islamic Terrorists have watched the Taliban fall, watched Afghanistan transition to a relatively stable country. Watched us invade Iraq. Watched us capture Saddam. Watched Iraq transition to sef-rule.
And the terrorists are sitting on their nukes saying, "not yet ... not yet ... pretty soon ..."
Exactly, years acutally. I first heard of this right after 9/11. There were ten then, they must be mating.
I heard about it in 1998, and it was only two then.
Must've been a breeding pair.
By this time next year, what? 200?
Williams is a tactical kook hawking his book.
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