Posted on 07/12/2004 2:40:59 PM PDT by bitt
"Is Al Qaeda planning to attack key U.S. before the November presidential election? We’ll ask Paul Williams, former FBI consultant and author of "Osama's Revenge.”
I did not find anything on the web site except for this.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Paul Williams stated that his sources for the chatter regarding terrorist attacks are Israeli and British sources among others, and he stated that he has heard that between 9 to 12 cities will be nuked before the start of 2005.
I doubt it, unless AQ is really, really dumb. Not that I'm eliminating that possibility, of course - but I think they just "got lucky" on 9/11 because of Bill Clinton's years of neglect, and they probably can't reproduce it.
Beware of "experts" hawking a book they just wrote.
Do you mean radiological or nuclear weapons?
Both are bad, but 2kt in a downtown area, much less 20kt.....
9 to 12???? I'd be amazed if they pulled off one low-level dirty bomb attack in ONE city. "Nuking" 9 to 12 major cities is such a quantum leap from that that it is barely worth noticing.
Maybe at the last minute, the elections should be moved up a few days. That threw them off in Iraq. Right?
Well, there's nothing about this on your link, and I really think we should just quit giving the "chicken littles" any visibility. So should Fox. Enough with this scare tactic, already.
IF Islam ever does that much damage to the USA, a billion people will die when we are finished.
Well, the Japanese surprised us at Pearl Harbor. On the eve of the attack, Admiral Kimmel sent his intelligence officer, Edwin Layton, over to Battleship Row to consult with his Battle Force commander, Admiral Pye, aboard USS California. Pye's comforting assessment of the Japanese fleet movements toward Malaya and other ominous signs of impending war was that that Japanese would never attack the U.S. facilities at Pearl -- "we're too big and strong". Admiral Kimmel took comfort from his words, but both he and Pye -- Pye especially -- found out how wrong that assessment was about 12 hours later.
Impossible.
There is no way that any terrorists could have entered the country. Our borders are SECURED.
Also, all non-citizens from terrorist supporting nations have been deported.
No way, couldn't happen.
oh, wait...............................................
To quote Yul Brynner, "So let it be written, so let it be done!"
Well, ok, but your analogy is not quite appropriate, because they were discussing strategy rather than capability. They were not arguing whether or not the Japanese COULD attack us, just whether or not they actually WOULD. As it relates to this report, however, the question is whether or not Al Qaeda even has that capability. And I cannot believe they do.
Do you think these monkeys would really have allowed us to beat the hell out of them for the past 3 years without retaliating in some way? And is it really feasible that they would have spent 6+ years of planning for 9/11 if it was within their capabilities to nuke 12 of our cities whenever they felt like it? Why not juke blow the nukes and really make an impact?
U.S. foreign or domestic __________'s?
Key U.S. _______?
nukes=laser snipers?
Contact your local 'Signel Corps.'
/sarcasm
Between 9 and 12 US cities nuked? Don't mostly democrats live in US cities? Wouldn't that kinda dim dem chances for all eternity?
Bunkum.
This rumor has been around for years, it seems unlikely this fellow would have any definitive answers.
Also, I don't like his resume.
I think they're going to try something before the elections. Whether they will succeed is a different matter, but the Madrid example is just too tempting for them to pass up.
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