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.
Don't have to! Ever been to So. California? They're all over the place. Walk on any university campus as a start.
To a dummy like me who is trying to follow this conversation, can you explain why an A bomb is better (if that's what you're saying)? Is it just a smaller explosion? Less radiation? I'm interested since I probably live in one of the 9 cities with the highest Jewish population.
So let's follow your developing reasoning here a while:
So you got 20 suitcase nukes in country. Not 10, not 30. The number is 20. That's what you've got to 'finish off' the US. If you're a 'strategicly' (that's not English either) minded organization I would suppose that first you might want to decide what the term 'finishing off' means.
Unable to respond? Unable to function as an integrated society? Ready to surrender and put our heads on the chopping block?
If you mean 'unable to respond'? That means hardened targets; not a Queda MO. 'Unable to function'? 20 small nukes aren't gonna do it, unless you know of 20 absolutely critical spots in the country that, if destroyed, would mean the cessation of all activity.
That leaves 'ready to surrender'and I don't know about you, but I'll be at the barricades waiting for the big follow-up invasion.
Any other ideas?
PS: I'm aware of the al Queda operational philosophy so you can stop with the lecture.
10,000+ illegal immigrants cross our border every day but somehow AQ members couldn't get in the country? And the attempt before that to topple the twin towers, in 1993, failed.
Wasn't Yousef the mastermind of the 93 attack?
And while the attack failed in its goal of toppling the towers, the attack was successful in that they were able to pull it off.
And I would like more information on Yousef being foiled in his attempt to hijack 11 airliners. Please provide.
This 20 nuke scenario certainly begs some questions. What's the smallest number of people required to hide 20 suitcase nukes in perfect secrecy over several years with the necessary skills to maintain the technology and distribute them to 20 different locations? It seems the more people involved the more difficult it becomes to keep this secret. And yet supposedly the author knows. And if AQ can breach our country with WMDs wouldn't it suggest they have already breached other countries like England, France, Spain, Italy, Russia with similar weapons? For whatever border problems we have here, I don't believe these other countries have better security than we do.
"I'm going to write a book and claim they have 21 suitcase nukes. Why would people want his book with only 20, when they can have mine, which offers an extra one free of charge?"
Pret-t-y Clever! Savage is a few cards short of a full deck.
RDX is a component in C4, invented prior to WWII. The Russian equivalent, and an exact equivalent, is Semtex.
The explosive used to implode nuclear devices is Pentolite, or a more recent substance. It is probably and RDX-based material, maybe PETN. What sets it aside from its cousins is its ability to be precisely molded without expansion or contraction. When cool, it maintains its shape even through fairly wide temperature excursions.
I suspect the Russians took electronics hardening into account when they made those nukes. Besides, a-bomb cores aren't particularly radioactive until they are compacted into a critical mass.
We arn't talking home-made weapons.
Europe no longer has border security. Its all open now. You can roam across border after border after border and not have to encounter any check points.
That's a distinction they clearly don't care about.
Fifth column in our military?
Savage is an outspoken Dilbert with an attitude who won't be fired but will forever remain in his cube.......
LOL - Somebody out there really needs to adopt that as a tagline...
Marketing campaigns usually start before the release of a product.
Only because it does not have the maintenence issues associated with the H-bomb. These little things were designed exclusively for terror and "point target" tactical attacks. They exist just so that they can be hand carried behind enemy lines and detonated. Lifetime issues were factored into their design just so they could accomplish such infiltration missions.
First you could easily locate every suitcase nuke held by the ragheads. It would be underneath the mushroom cloud. Second there may be 5 sleeper cells. Maybe 50 at the outside. 5000? NO WAY! You just can't keep that many people together in any covert way. Once there is more than one person involved things fall apart.
I looked at this guy's profile as well. End times, androgyny, all kinds of interesting stuff. Makes me wish I was a weaver...
Hmm... now that I think about it... try OKC, TWA Flight 800, that EgyptAir flight, and the LAX attack... and who knows what we stopped.
Please tell me? I want to know.
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