Posted on 09/24/2006 7:06:13 AM PDT by John Carey
Hamid Mir, a Pakistani, is the only journalist to have interviewed Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, since 9/11.
On the fifth anniversary of the attacks, Mr. Mir was in Afghanistan again, this time to interview Abu Dawood, the new al Qaida field commander there.
Final preparations have been made for an "American Hiroshima," Mr. Dawood told him, Mr. Mir said in an interview with Al Arabiya television last week. The attack or attacks will be led by Adnan El Shukrijumah, Mr. Mir said.
Mr. El Shukrijumah was born in Saudi Arabia in 1975, but grew up in Brooklyn. He was a friend of 9/11 hijack leader Mohammed Atta, and is both a trained nuclear technician and a pilot. The FBI is offering a reward of up to $5 million for his capture.
When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the former al Qaida operations chief who planned the 9/11 attacks was captured in 2003, he reportedly told his interrogators that Mr. El Shukrijumah would be in charge of the next major attack on America.
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Yes, unfortunately he is. On the brightside, I will get a chance to vote against him- downside to that is that it's not going to be soon enough.
Yes, it's the parties fault and there is a huge difference between them. The lesser of two evils and all that.
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Met a B-52 pilot, retired, a couple decades ago. He was a wiry little guy, bright and lively selling merchandise in a dept store where I happened to also work. Retired, but he couldn't just sit down and act retired. He used to talk about flying over Nowhere Province, Canada where some pioneer's porchlight was always on and could be seen 100 miles away. The B-52s navigated by that porchlight. So he said.
"We are not the same Nation with the same resolve of 50 years ago."
Bingo!!!
And, given current immigration trends in 10-20 years time we'll (if there is still a "we") be so devided that the then president won't be able to get a consensus from the people to govern or to go to war. You can then kiss America good bye.
I remember too. I wonder how much help those desks whould have been to us should a nuke have gone off nearby.
Certainly ONE of the many appropriate outcomes in the event of the "American Hiroshima".
Pakistan, Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia are prime targets
Disagree. Another incident will put those folks in the "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" conundrum.
But they will still be gutless.
Outstanding comments, and I'm afraid all too true.
I hope you're right, but so many people are so disconnected from terrorism and its causes that I don't think even a nuclear attack would wake them up.
Unless of course the "nukes" are exploded in DC while the Senate is in session.
Protection from flying glass, that's all they were. Later they had us assemble in inside corridors rather than stay in outside rooms for protection against fallout. We were sooooo doomed!
No, they will just blame George Bush and say that it never would have happened if John Kerry were President.
I think as long as it wasn't in their neighborhood people would view it the same way way as they did Hurricane Katrina was last year; as a disaster.
P.S. See post 51, long but excellent take on this subject!
We always knew when it was 12 noon in our neighborhood. That's when an air raid siren (50 yards from my house) went off every day, five days a week (I don't recall it being tested on weekends), for as long as I lived there (10 years).
You could set your watch to the darn thing.
When, not if. There will be blaming, finger pointing and the usual endless bickering and arguing. The reality is that it will have happened because of PC - unwillingness to profile, unwillingness to monitor things that go on disguised as religion, unwillingness to expel those who want to kill us, unwillingness to block entry to the USA to those who are trying to kill us.
I wish I could believe this. If such resolve would be demonstrated it would last about 6 months. When folks could no longer get diet drinks they would feel the pang of deprivation, blame it on the conservatives, and the democrats would opportunistically echo their concerns. If we do not execute an instant and complete victory, within a few months any will we might have mustered will dissipate.
If we see an "American Hiroshima", our senators deserve the Mussolini treatment.
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