I may be wrong, but I believe Xiong gave that speech a matter of
hours before the first plane struck the WTC on the morning of 9/11.
Curious timing in light of this new "unofficial warning" from China
(there is no free speech in general, and specifically, no merely
"personal opinions" coming from a PLA Major General at a news
briefing).
Curious timing.<<<<<<<<<
I am glad to see you posting here again.
The above reminds me of a strange idea that has taken root in my mind.
"Why are we hearing nukes around every corner?", is a question that I have asked several times in the last couple weeks.
Is it possible that the government wants us to be aware of the possibility of a nuclear strike? That they are saying that al Qaeda has a nuke, so we will wake up?
If the gov said "China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea and Russia were a team that was intending to take us out all at one time", then it would cause real trouble and that is not the way the game is played.
About 3 or 4 weeks ago, Dr. Bill Wattenberg spent his time on air, almost at a frantic pace, talking about nuclear strikes on the United States.
That was unusual for him, as a rule he answers questions with the truth. But this night he was under pressure.
I have listened since then, he has not been other than normal, very little extra talk on nukes.
It gave me a little fear, as I know he is still on the teams for the Government and working with them, even tho he is retired from teaching.
I agree with you that this Zhu would not have given an interview, unless the Chinese leaders gave him permission to do so.
The threat has been out there, Russia and China, Venezuela and Cuba keep issuing statements that say "Now we are countries enough to take on the United States.
Tracing back over details of four lives
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,15935791%255E663,00.html
THE spy agency MI5 is sifting through the minute details of the four suspect bombers' lives, including every recent phone call and email.
Working backwards from July 7, investigators are tracing every call made from their homes in Leeds and plotting their movements and associations with others.
"Phone records, bank accounts, credit card usage, phone calls from work -- every piece of data connected with the four is being examined," said one security source.
Investigators were last night drawing "concentric circles" around the men's lives, to see who else could be drawn in.
It is understood the Muslim community in Beeston where the bombers congregated is coming under the microscope.
More details were emerging last night about the three suicide bombers.
Edgware Road bomber Mohammed Sadique Khan, 30, was a special-needs teacher for primary schoolchildren who flouted cultural conventions to marry the woman he fell for at university.
His wife, Hasina, British-born of Indian parents, has an eight-month-old girl and is expecting a second child.
A local community leader said it was likely Khan had met the other men away from the Dewsbury area where he lived.
Teenage bus bomber Hasib Hussain, 19, was described as a boy who grew "sour with hatred" by the time he was 14.
At 188cm, he was known as a giant at school but was overshadowed by his more gregarious older brother Imran.
Passionate about cricket and football, he had a religious conversion two years ago after visiting Pakistan. He grew a beard, swapped his Western attire for Islamic garb and only stopped to say "salaam" to fellow Muslims.
He recently shaved his beard -- a sign, say al-Qaida analysts, of a radical's intention to become a terrorist.
One neighbour branded Hussain a "dopey dork" who hid in his bedroom in recent times.
"He was not the brightest around. He started dressing up in flowing Muslim dress and started to stay in his room all the time," the neighbour said.
Aldgate bomber Shehzad Tanweer, 22, was described as a good-looking, lean young man with fashionably dyed hair who loved cricket but preferred his prayer books to chasing girls.
Known to his mates as "Khaka", he went into his shell in recent months and seemed to devote every spare moment to prayer at the local mosque.
In Pakistan, an intelligence official said Tanweer had been in the Lahore area from December to February.
He stayed at a madrassa, an Islamic religious school of the type widely seen by security agencies as breeding grounds for militancy.