They might believe they have nukes in our country, but I suspect Al Qaeda is reaching the point where it is more bluster and bluff than substance.
If there were nukes in our country, they'd have used them before the last election. They'd have used them to try and get our President. The fact that they haven't used them yet, means they don't have them, or can't get them into the country.
Of course, now that the liberal leakers have demolished the effectiveness of our secret interrogation prisons, and our eavesdropping program... It just got a heck of a lot harder to stop terrorist attacks aimed at American soil.
Mostly in agreement with you. My only difference is with targeting. We may be the Great Satan but we're #2 on the target list. If they had nuke(s) Israel would be a parking lot. They are single minded in their hatred, so there is no way they would pass on that opportunity.
I don't know if I buy this. Lots of folks in government are going around pounding their chests and saying "see, we've got 'em on the run because we haven't been hit since 9/11".
One thing a lot of folks seem to forget is the plot that lead to 9/11 was YEARS in the making. Our enemy is patient and willing to wait until the time is right and I think that is exactly what is happening now.
I remember a while back there was discussion about the stability of these suitcase nukes. From what I remember, it is so difficult and expensive to keep these things on ice. Most Governments in the world could not do it let alone a terror cell.
As people explain every time this moonbat claim is trotted out again, "suitcase nukes" require frequent high-tech maintenance to maintain them in usable condition. Just for starters, the tritium used to "spike" the reaction (thus reducing the mass required to go supercritical) rapidly (12-year half-life) decays into helium-3 (an isotope that absorbs neutrons, thus dampening out the chain reaction) -- thus, the tritium has to be replaced frequently to flush out the He-3 buildup.
That said, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Russian Mafia sold some of these guys a bunch of pinball machine parts stuffed with medical radioactive waste, or if some ambitious cell leader simply spun a tale about having possession of a "suitcase nuke".