Posted on 07/14/2005 12:24:33 PM PDT by Sweetjustusnow
Paul M. Williams author of The Al-Queda Connection which is due to be released soon, provides a compilation of data based on; FBI, CIA, Vice President Cheney, Homeland Security, Attorney General Ashcroft and news sources. Makes a strong case that there are 20 suitcase nukes in the USA which have been smuggled in through the border with Mexico.
The implication here being that these small devices were made in 1945? These are new things.
No they didn't. The hijackers started preparing for the attacks the moment they came into the United States and attacked as soon as they were ready. They didn't waste any time underground. The 9-11 hijackers were not a sleeper cell.
The suitcase nukes are NOT H-bombs. They are 2kt "plain vanilla" A-bombs. The 8-inch howetzer can lob tactical nukes.
It took them 8 years after the first WTC bombing to learn how to hijack a few planes for another attack on the WTC? What prevented them from attacking between the 93 attack and the 2001 attack? I can think of nothing.
What's everyone so concerned about??
The CIA has Valerie Plame in charge of WMD non-proliferation.
Not entirely true, several of the hijackers lived in FL and near Washington for a period before the attacks. Atta was in Hamburg before the attacks, but they were all in American society at one point or another in the time leading up to 9/11.
What stops more than a few dozen from entering across our southern border, again?
BTW, I did NOT notice any "pointing out a fact."
I noticed asserting an assumption AS A FACT.
Quite different, don't ya think?
And they couldn't have come any sooner because al Qaeda couldn't afford the airfare just yet, I suppose...
These guys don't shoot very well and we have a heavily armed population. 5000 snipers we can handle. Nuke's would be another issue, but I doubt they've got 20 and certainly not in country. Though they may have a few.
Absolutely nothing. Al Qaeda is an enormous threat, even without 5000 operatives or nuclear weapons.
Only in H-bombs, not A-bombs. There are no 2kt H-bombs. All H-bombs start in the megatons. Suitcase nukes are simple a-bombs.
Not that I've ever heard about. Admittedly, my knowledge is from the nuke reactor side and not the weapons side. It may be that even with the very low neutron capture cross-section of helium that allows it to be used in fission reactors, the neutron loss in bombs is large enough to cause loss of explosive efficiency.
...which explains in part why you live in Kentucky and do not work in a position of authority.
I live in the Louisville, Kentucky area. That really smarts! <laughing>
How so when a single sniper brought havock and a grinding halt to the DC metro area.
5,000 snipers would have America looking like a ghost town. Virtually no one would leave their home. The country woudl shut down.
and 7/11 would have been the perfect cover.....
Speak for yourself...I travel for a living and in those days before 9/11 the lax security measures at our airports really bothered me, and my worries came true. That situation and the suitcase nukes are two separate issues and levels of probability.
Not really. The 9/11 hijackers didn't sit around for years waiting for a secret signal from OBL. Rather, they were basically on their own and it was up to them to decide when to make their move. They weren't trying to blend in to the American populace for years until the time was right. Rather, they single-mindedly went forward with their plan and executed it more or less as soon as they were ready.
The monsters have patience that most Americans can't even comprehend.
19 guys spread around the country planning an attack is one thing. If they're smart, there is very little to draw the attention of the authorities.
A bunch of guys sitting on a nuke is quite different. The longer they wait, the more likely something is to go wrong.
No they couldn't come sooner because the United States stopped a previous Al Qaeda attempt to hijack and crash 11 US airliners led by a man named Ramzi Yousef. And the attempt before that to topple the twin towers, in 1993, failed.
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