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Homeland Security’s Chertoff Warns of Nuclear Terror Threat
US Department of State ^
| Jan. 26, 2007
| David McKeeby
Posted on 01/26/2007 7:11:36 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: Nathan Zachary
"Small? 10 million Muslims is a "small" population?"
There's only - at most - about 3 million Muslims in the United States.
"If we can only prevent more from flooding in, that would be good. "
Ah, but our government not only has no plans to do this, but is going out of its way to bring in more.
To: Nathan Zachary
Ya beat me the poverty point. There should be a sitcom where this guy volunteers to be a terrorist but ends selling the cell phones and using the air flight tickets go gambling in Vegas. He always has to explain to his terrorist boss how he almost succeeded but with just some more cash, and that blond assistant with the big breasts, he'll get the job done. It could be like Benny Hill or On the Buses if you're into or know older Brit TV.
To: garv
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posted on
01/26/2007 9:44:17 PM PST
by
Pro-Bush
(hater)
To: Nathan Zachary
[considering the sloppyness of the Ruskies handling of it in all the former soviet bloc "Stans", many of which have large muslim populations. ]
"Tit for Tat".
Jimmuh Carter basically seeded the 1979 Islamic Revolution in order to destabilize those Soviet "Stans".
The Soviet invasion and defeat in Afghanistan, and the subsequent implosion of the Soviet economy were a direct result.
As was 9/11 and our current situation in Iraq.
I suspect there are more than a few members of the inner party who are smirking at our predicament.
We used Islam as a weapon and now the shoe is on the other foot.
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posted on
01/26/2007 9:49:56 PM PST
by
VxH
(There are those who declare the impossible - and those who do the impossible.)
To: Nathan Zachary
As a percentage it is less than 1% of the population. While new immigrants in ghettos may have the isolation required to engage in terrorism, I hold out some hope that at that small a portion of the populace Muslims will be rapidly assimilated and inculcated in American values. If not, at least they will presumably have American neighbors who will rat them out for suspicious activities.
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posted on
01/26/2007 9:55:40 PM PST
by
amchugh
To: FairOpinion
Is this a new warning or last weeks warning?
46
posted on
01/26/2007 9:57:18 PM PST
by
philetus
(Keep doing what you always do and you'll keep getting what you always get.)
To: amchugh
To: Nathan Zachary
--O Allah, Lord of the Devils--
So that makes Martin Brodeur a servant of Allah <:P
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posted on
01/26/2007 11:30:16 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(Custom-built for Bill Clinton: the new Toyota Priapus.)
To: Nathan Zachary
Ishaq:510 When the Apostle looked down on Khaybar he told his Companions, O Allah, Lord of the heavens and what they overshadow, and Lord of the Devils and what into error they throw, and Lord of the winds and what they winnow, we ask Thee for the booty of this town and its people. Forward in the name of Allah.
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posted on
01/26/2007 11:36:28 PM PST
by
rfp1234
(Custom-built for Bill Clinton: the new Toyota Priapus.)
To: FairOpinion
I accept that Islam is a peaceful religion and does not endorse this use of violence, Chertoff said.There went any credibility he might have had going in.
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posted on
01/27/2007 12:00:52 AM PST
by
webheart
To: Nathan Zachary
Your absolutely correct.
I have not seen 24, but I can certainly imagine similar scenario's.
For instance, hurricane Rita was in the Gulf of Mexico, it was heading right for us here in Houston.
Officials call for an evacuation. What transpired over the next few days was horrific.
I-45, I-10, Hwy 59 and other major routes out of Houston were completely log jammed for a couple of days.
The scene looked like a science fiction movie. People spent the night ON the hwy, in their cars. They ran out of gas, food, drink.
After the mess cleared, there were automobiles strewn all over the place...the ones that broke down or ran out of gas, that is.
There was NO gas to be had. All local businesses along the highways were closed. Absolutely mobbed of everything. People walking off the hwy, leaving their cars to find food and gas. It was a maddening event. Trash scattered everywhere, and I don't mean a little, I mean massive amounts of trash everywhere.
Now, the hurricane never hit Houston! My point being, if there were to be a dirty bomb, nuke, chemical or bio weapon detonated within a large urban area, if there were massive casualties, People will panic in every city in America and will try to get out of the city centers....thus causing similar situations.
Desperation and violence will break out, then the ol ball gets to rollin.
To: amchugh
You said: I'm recovering from illness today.
Me thinks your illness is in your head!
I don't care what alternative we use to kill Muslims. They are the enemy and they are out to destroy us. They are willing to die to kill us. And we must kill them first.
Of course, war requires sacrifice. We will have losses. We are capable of winning wars without man-to-man conflict.
Let's use our technology and show our force. What has happened that we don't have the same determination to win as we did during WWII?
You may not agree, but I think you are more seriously ill than you realize.
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posted on
01/27/2007 7:58:54 AM PST
by
i_dont_chat
(I have the right to offend. You can take offense or not.)
To: servantboy777
There was NO gas to be had. All local businesses along the highways were closed. Absolutely mobbed of everything. People walking off the hwy, leaving their cars to find food and gas. It And the National Guard and Army tanker trucks sent to fill folks up, had the wrong sorts of nozzles, never having changed from the older fatter "leaded" gas nozzles. Or so I heard anyway.
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posted on
01/27/2007 3:33:54 PM PST
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
To: Nathan Zachary
If you think most of the terrorists dying in Iraq and elsewhere are "well off"...you aren't paying attention.
IMO, Aziz is partly correct.......
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posted on
01/27/2007 3:42:38 PM PST
by
Osage Orange
("The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it.")
To: El Gato
I had not heard that, but I wouldn't doubt it.
Chaos.
To: FairOpinion
Laying the groundwork for, "See? We warned you!"
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posted on
01/27/2007 4:36:42 PM PST
by
airborne
(Elect an Airborne Ranger,Vietnam Veteran for President ! Duncan Hunter 2008!!)
To: i_dont_chat
I'm saying killing all Muslims is impractical. Why didn't we genocide the Japanese in WWII? There are some parallels between how we felt about them and their code of Bushido after Pearl Harbor to how we feel about radical Muslims today.
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posted on
01/27/2007 6:09:55 PM PST
by
amchugh
To: amchugh
Why didn't we genocide the Japanese in WWII? If not for the atomic bomb, we might have been forced to pretty much do that. The Emperor, Hirohito, decided to surrender rather than lose his people wholesale. He's probably the only one who could have ordered them to surrender, and not been immediately killed. Being thought a god has it's advantages.
In the event, the final battle(s) against the Germans were much more vicious than those against the Japanese. Especially in the East, between the Russians and the Germans. The Germans were still fighting when the writ of the Third Reich covered only about a 2 X 7 mile area surrounding the Hitler Bunker.
By final battles, I mean those leading directly to surrender. In effect in Japan, there no final battles, they decided they'd had enough *before* we had to invade their homeland. (Laying aside that Okinawa and Iwo Jima are technically part of Japan).
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posted on
01/27/2007 7:37:08 PM PST
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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