Posted on 04/28/2006 9:03:39 AM PDT by Bob J
In a just concluded debate and press conference, author and FBI Consultant Paul Williams and Jeff Epstein of "America's Truth Forum" reveal they have been advised by Pakistani journalist and Bin Laden biographer Hamid Amir that Al-Qaeda will use smuggled nukes against the US if the US takes military action against Iran.
Amir established his credentials by correctly predicting that Egypt would be hit by terrorist action a full two weeks prior to the events of last week. Amir, a Pakistani journalist, has been in contact with high ranking Al-Qaeda officials for several years.
The debate (between Richard Miniter and Paul Williams) and press conference were webcast LIVE by Rightalk.com. Audio files of both events will be available for downloading by this afternoon.
How many times is somebody going to have a book to sell or a website that needs more hits?
Ithica? or Detroit?
I'm sure there will be folks who drop into the thread to tell you how silly this whole nuke thing is--and of course, they're right: why, sneaking a nuke into this country and detonating it is every bit as outlandish a notion as flying planes into buildings.
If they had them, and that is a big if, to say they have the supplies to keep them up to spec is a stretch. They certainly possess some of our stingers left over from the russia/afghan conflict, yet they can't keep them up to spec, or they would have put down signifcant numbers of allied aircraft in the past few years. Nuclear weapons are infinitely more difficult to maintain, not just in terms of materials such as tritium(which is needed for the triggering mechanism, and has a relatively short half life), but more importantly in terms of the expertise needed to keep them operational.
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You get it. Nothing sells like nuclear fear.
Diplomatic brilliance defined /sarcasm
Al Qaeda hates Saudi Arabia, they hate Egypt, they hate Jordan. Why wouldn't they make something happen that not only takes out the ruling regimes to usher in their own? Much of "street Islam" will cheer them.
You said -- "Nuke goes off in NY, or Dallas or New Orleans, etc., and I guarantee you that there will be nuclear retaliation against any identified source within 90 minutes, max."
I have no idea why you say that. It will never happen. The U.S. simply does not indiscriminately bomb places, no matter what the liberal media says. If you've joined the liberal media in that "chorus" then you must believe all that other liberal media garbage, too.
What the U.S. needs to do is elminate Islam as a viable religion in this country. They need to outlaw it, destroy all the mosques, deport all the clerics and then have an oath of allegiance to the U.S. for all the Muslims who want to remain in this country. Otherwise deport them.
And then, the U.S. needs to destroy the central symbols of the Islamic faith around the world. They need to destroy every last single one of them and jail all the clerics in the world.
Now, that's a *less drastic* step than nuking several countries. BUT -- even so -- I would be willing to bet that many people would say that we *cannot* take this less drastic step because it would be against people's right -- while at the same time -- be willing to take away people's right to life by nuking entire countries.
There is something wrong in people's minds who say this...
Regards,
Star Traveler
The bigger the bluster, the smaller the peni.
Oh, yeah, that would delay them -- NOT. Nutjob "clerics" who will give their blessing to any harebrained scheme are a dime a dozen in Jihadistan.
"Port security has a 3% of catching them." Why use the ports when they could bring them acroos our southern border with a 0% chance of us catching them.
Or, if they threaten us with them now, I find it difficult to believe they won't use them as soon as they actually do get them.
Which means----preemption.
They considered that but decided no one would be able to tell the difference anyway.
Agreed. If they were right we would have used nukes against the same targets they cite after 911. We didn't. We invaded Afghanistan and still couldn't get rid of them. Too many holes to hide in around the world.
Heh!
tobton
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Or even if they don't.
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