Posted on 09/04/2005 4:41:22 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
Domestic nuclear attack makes Katrina look kind
By Paul L. Williams
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Homeland Security is not secure and the American people remain vulnerable to the next terrorist attack, which will come within the immediate future and will involve nuclear and radiological weapons.
That is the lesson of Hurricane Katrina and the chaos in New Orleans. The U.S. remains unable to evacuate the citizens, to provide emergency shelter, to contain the rampant violence and to remove the hundreds of putrefying bodies from the floodwaters. Medical helicopters and law officers have come under fire; storm survivors battle for seats on the buses that would carry them away from the chaos; murders and rapes have occurred within the New Orleans Convention Center, which was supposed to serve as a place of refuge.
The situation, as pointed out by Yoram East in Joseph Farah's G-2 Bulletin, sends a clear message to al-Qaida terrorists. America is unprepared for even a single disaster within a medium-sized city, let alone a nuclear disaster within a major metropolitan area.
As the situation in New Orleans continued to worsen, reports began to surface about nuclear weapons and materials being transported over the Mexican border by MS-13 gang members, who are now serving as "coyotes" for terrorist organizations, including al-Qaida. Adnan el-Shukrijumah, who has been identified by the FBI as the next Mohamed Atta, met with MS-13 jefes at an internet café in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras, on May 27, 2004.
In the wake of the meeting, over 9,000 Special Interest Aliens (illegal immigrants from terror-related countries such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and even Iraq) have been apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol.
Concern about el-Shukrijumah and his ties with MS-13 were further heightened with the arrest of Sharif al-Masri in Pakistan. Al-Masri, a key al-Qaida operative with close ties to Ayman al-Zawahiri, informed his interrogators that al-Qaida made arrangements to smuggle nuclear materials into the U.S. with the help of a Latino street gang. He later identified the street gang as MS-13.
Al-Masri also provided testimony that nuclear weapons, which had been built for al-Qaida with the assistance of scientists and technicians from the A. Q. Khan Research Facility in Pakistan, had been forward-deployed to Mexico for transport into the U.S. Although news of al-Masri's alarming testimony was published in several leading news journals, including The Nation, it failed to capture the attention of many major news outlets, let alone Homeland Security.
In July, I received word from a smuggler who claimed to have transported nuclear supplies into the U.S. The smuggler, who hailed from El Paso, was not only a firsthand source but a degreed engineer who possessed a background in nuclear technology. He wished to relay this information to government officials in order to prevent an event that would kill millions of Americans, including his family and friends.
Knowing the urgency of this message, I contacted government and law enforcement officials.
That was four weeks ago.
Nothing happened.
The lack of response is not surprising. The national security seems to reside with boobs and bureaucrats. We are witnessing a similar lack of reaction with Hurricane Katrina.
While writing "The Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime, and the Coming Apocalypse," I was able to break into the confidential records and reports of the Department of Homeland Security. This feat would not be alarming save for the fact that I am a computer illiterate who types with two fingers.
We are engaged in a war not against terror but against radical Islam. The enemy that we face has announced that 4 million Americans must die for the sake of parity. Al-Qaida has been amassing nuclear weapons since 1992. Empirical proof of bin Laden's nuclear capability has been provided in such places as Kandahar, Herat, Kabul and a checkpoint at Ramallah.
On Nov. 14, 2004, Michael Scheuer, the CIA agent who had been charge on the bin Laden file (codenamed "Alec"), appeared on "60 Minutes" to warn the American people that a nuclear attack by al-Qaida in major cities throughout the U.S. "is pretty close to being inevitable."
Despite this warning, the borders remain wide open; less than 10 percent of the cargo coming into our ports is being inspected; organized crime continues to control activity at many major airports; and currently installed radiation detention systems remain limited in their capabilities and insufficient for the task.
The next disaster to hit America may be a nuclear hell-storm, the details of which were found on the lap-top computer of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at the time of his arrest in Karachi on March 1, 2003.
When that hell-storm hits, Katrina will appear kind.
Paul L. Williams is the author of "Osama's Revenge" and a new book, "The Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming Apocalypse."
After the quick response from Hurricane Katrina, I have great confidence that all the rapid response plans for major catastrophes in the United States are going to work just great. The response for Katrina was just amazing and it shows that we have little to worry about in the event of a major attack against the United States. So strong and quick was the reponse to Katrina that I'll bet it sent shivers down the spines of our foreign enemies who now know it is futile to attack the United States since we are so prepared.
While writing "The Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime, and the Coming Apocalypse," I was able to break into the confidential records and reports of the Department of Homeland Security. This feat would not be alarming save for the fact that I am a computer illiterate who types with two fingers.
More scary stuff.
Two posts of the same material? "A lie, told often enough...?" But this isn't a 'lie' though I do dispute details. Where to dispute, here or there? Why two, I ask?
Two posts of the same material? "A lie, told often enough...?" But this isn't a 'lie' though I do dispute details. Where to dispute, here or there? Why two, I ask?
Not all cities are run by people as incompetent as those who ran New Orleans. . The biggest problem right now in New Orleans is that it is underwater, I cant think of another city where the water wouldnt run off after a day or so.
Hehe.
If you want to keep your enemy out that is...
This should be called "American Apocalypse".
I have no doubt that Clinton would have responded more quickly because he would have simply ignored the possee contaminus (sp?) laws that hold the governer is the c-i-c of the national guard in that state. Had Bush done that, the press would have gone absolutely bezerk in conveying the theme that Bush is a dictator who is using the storm to take over state troops. Of course, Bush could have responded to that criticism that the lib mayor and gov were derelict in their duty to properly respond to the storm, but Bush is scared to piss of the dems and press.
Not all of NO is under water.
They have (had?) what is possibly THE most corrupt PD in the U.S., no small accomplishment when you are up against Philly, Baltimore, L.A., Detroit, Chicago and other top contenders.
The PD deserted. Some became looters.
That is a very very deep disgrace.
I would need to know a lot more about what exactly Mr. Williams considers "break into the confidential records" of DHS to judge this. If he is truly a computer illiterate, how does he even know that he isn't, for instance, simply in a honeypot?
The relief and rescue effort has actually not been bad. We are talking the ENTIRE gulf south region from Just East and north of New Orleans, all the way to Pascagoula, Mississippi. The laws of physics make it impossible to provide instant food, water, evacuation and medical care to hundreds of thousands of people at once.
I think the response has been okay, actually.
Everyone in the country goes back to work Tuesday. If there is to be a coordinated attack, a day like Tuesday will be that kind of day.
The United States is vulnerable for many reasons, notably its dependence on technology. An Oklahoma City-size bomb could have blown up the New Orleans levee. Destruction of the water-supply could paralyze Los Angeles. Disruption of the electricity supply could paralyze New York. Et al.
However, the U.S. is most vulnerable because of the unwieldy burocracy that gets in the way of everything, including measures to protect the technology on which the U.S. is dependent.
It is reminescent of China in its decadent periods. Though not nearly as bad, it is a grim warning to the wise.
(And such signs of Western decadence are certainly not lost on the worldly wise Chinese.)
This burocracy, encompassing everything from ridiculous "environmental protection" regulations to ubiquitous fear of lawsuits and psychotic plaintiffs' awards to an inability to prevent illegal immigration to you-name-it, virtually paralyses the nation in many respects and prevents the American people from taking meaningful action. It is the handywork of the essentially Marxist Left, but the Republicans, including the Bush Administration, are deeply suffused with it.
President Bush should immediately station the U.S. military along the borders to prevent illegal immigration AND the open door to terrorists. The fact that he cannot or will not do this illustrates the point, a point that also is not lost on Al-Qaida and America's other enemies.
The American people ignore all this and fail to act at their peril.
It is important for all of us to be prepared to self-sufficiently take care of ourselves and our families for at least a week before organized help can arrive. Our enemies wait for Katrina-like situations and move to exploit them. They like nothing more than to kick a victim while he's down or stab him in the back while he's preoccupied. We can all learn from this Katrina thing while our domestic traitor friends, the liberals, spend their time bitching and trying to start a race war which they hope will sweep them back into power.
posse comitatusThis is from the dictionary that came with Microsoft Word. It's terrific.pos·se com·i·ta·tus
plural pos·se com·i·ta·tus·es) n
posse: a posse (formal)
[From medieval Latin , literally “force of the county”] Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
If you don't have an on-line dictionary readily available, you're missing something. It's easy and fun to consult with only a click. One of the things I like best (besides getting the spelling correct, which is particularly hard for me) is that the etymology makes precise meaning easier. There's a thesaurus also.
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