[Perdogg]

A healthy skeptical question would be - if they had here, why hadn’t they used them?

[true_blue_texican]

Because we quit putting panties on their heads.

[mewzilla]

Maybe we stopped them.

[mewzilla]

From 2002, there was a thread on FR but I can't find it, so here's a link to an FNC story...

Navy SEALs Inspecting Radioactive Ship Off New Jersey

Norfolk, VA was on the ship's intinerary after NJ.

[TChris]

A healthy skeptical question would be - if they had here, why hadn’t they used them?

You're right. They don't have them.

The guy's selling a book. That should answer anyone's questions.

[Ditto]

A healthy skeptical question would be - if they had here, why hadn’t they used them?

Ditto. If they had them, they would have used them already.

[Gum Shoe]

“A healthy skeptical question would be - if they had here, why hadn’t they used them?”

Good point. I think that they would have used it on Israel long before any thought of transporting such a device to the US.

[steve86]

It is possible that their sponsors (Russia, NK, Iran, etc.) haven’t given them the go-ahead yet. Note: it is not necessary that the sponsors share all political and religious ideology with the actors — they just need to share a common goal.

[pacelvi]

Well probably because they have a larger strategy they’re trying to work out.

How short-sighted are most of you people?

Do you understand what they’re trying to do? I think they learned thier lesson about attacking too soon.

They didn’t anticipate our response to 9/11, so they learned that lesson.

I believe AQ is coordinating with Iran (it’s been specualted that Iran has shelted Osama at some point)

[ScubieNuc]

A healthy skeptical question would be - if they had here, why hadn’t they used them?

One possible explanation would be the knowledge that US submarines alone could and would eliminate Mecca and Medina within 24 hours of a nuke explosion in America.

I suspect, these terrorists aren't as stupid as we would like to think. They or their handlers (Russia, Korea, China, ?) are looking to create a scapegoat to shed doubt that the nuke came from Muslims.

But...who really knows?

[Joe Boucher]

9-11 was some special date in history for the mooselimbs.
From what i hear all important things to them are in regards historical.
Thus they await some date with special meaning to them.
When that date comes and they launch their efforts they will explain.

Pretty stupid but then hey if you lived in the eighth century?

[EBH]

Because our response would destroy Mecca?

An nuclear attack would renew our resolve.

[jpl]

A healthy skeptical question would be - if they had here, why hadn’t they used them?

I don't believe that he is actually saying that they have them here in America, but this argument is a fallacy anyway.

It's tantamount to saying that because there haven't been any attacks in America, that therefore there are no members of Al Qaeda here, or saying in August of 2001 that they didn't have the capability to destroy the World Trade Center because it hadn't happened yet.

It's absolutely critical that we understand that our radical Islamist enemies take the long view of warfare, and they are nothing if not patient and determined. 9/11 was a operation about ten years in the making.

[Little Ray]

At they very least, if they couldn’t detonate one in a city, they would have detonated one just to PROVE they had them... and reaped the benefits of recruiting and blackmail.