http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/3269211
July 16, 2005, 8:24PM
OUR HIROSHIMA
Dropping the 'Islamic bomb'
An atomic attack on Fortress America by pious men with beards isn't a matter of if but when.
By PERVEZ HOODBHOY (snipped)
ONE wonders what Osama bin Laden and his ilk learned from Hiroshima. . .
The New York Times reported that before the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States had intercepted an al-Qaida message that bin Laden was planning a "Hiroshima" against America. In a later taped message, released before the U.S. attack on Afghanistan, bin Laden said, "When people at the ends of the Earth, Japan, were killed by their hundreds of thousands, young and old, it was not considered a war crime; it is something that has justification."
Have you ever read the original piece on the "American Hiroshima" chatter Nicholas Kristoff? I cannot seem to find it on the internet..
"The US does not consider it a terrorist act to throw atomic bombs at nations thousands of miles away, when it would not be possible for those bombs to hit military troops only. These bombs were rather thrown at entire nations, including women, children and elderly people and up to this day the traces of those bombs remain in Japan."
Transcript of 1997 bin Laden Interview w/Peter Arnett:
http://www.anusha.com/osamaint.htm
"Through history, American has not been known to differentiate between the military and the civilians or between men and women or adults and children. Those who threw atomic bombs and used the weapons of mass destruction against Nagasaki and Hiroshima were the Americans."
John Miller's 1998 Interview with UBL:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/interview.html