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Al-Qaida Plans Nuclear Attacks on 7 U.S. Cities
Drudge; Newsmax.com ^ | 7/17/2007 | NewsMax Wires

Posted on 07/17/2007 7:28:31 AM PDT by EndWelfareToday

Recently, FBI Director Robert Mueller, in an interview with NewsMax, confirmed Williams' main claim. Mueller said al-Qaida's paramount goal is clear: to detonate a nuclear device that would kill hundreds of thousands of Americans.

Mueller told NewsMax that at times, the threat feels so real he lies awake at night thinking about the prospect.

Williams maintains that al-Qaida is not content on blowing up one nuclear device or even simply a "dirty" nuke — but wants to explode real nuclear devices in seven U.S. cities simultaneously.

(Excerpt) Read more at w3.newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaida; americanhiroshima; attack; bs; buymybook; cities; islam; jericho; muhammadsminions; ussoil; waronislamism; wot
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To: WestCoastGal

When I was in grammar school we had air raid drills. Duck and cover was just being introduced when I graduated high school. It was clear from the B-52s circling overhead ready to break out north that there was serious trouble, but at the time nobody but experts had a clear idea what nukes could do aside from some descriptions of Hiroshima. Our little town of 10,000 was supposed to put up the million evacuees from the nearby city in our spare bedrooms. Really, nobody had a clue.


201 posted on 07/17/2007 4:31:17 PM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: reagan_fanatic

Some things are missing from the picture on the left. Sadly the picture on the right is intact. This should be an indicator of future response..... Can’t hurt anyones feelings now.


202 posted on 07/17/2007 5:23:01 PM PDT by RS_Rider
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To: WestCoastGal
“duck and cover drills......as if that would have saved us. LOL”

That depends on just where you are when the bomb goes off. If you are inside the 12 psi zone or inside the fireball, sure, you are a goner no matter what you do.

But if you are far enough away, duck n cover will protect you from flying glass and other flying stuff. A 10 meg nuke will break your windows from at least ten miles away, but there will be several seconds between the flash and the bang. if you see the flash and run to the window, you get shredded by glass shrapnel. If you see the flash and cover up, you will at least survive that effect.

There are weapons evvects calculators on line. For most of them, if you are in the yellow zone or “moderate damage zone” ducking can save you. The USA stopped teaching nuke survival in 1963- 64.

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Library/Nukesims.html

www.archive.org has the original Duck and Cover movies with Burt the Turtle.

203 posted on 07/17/2007 6:53:11 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: Yaelle
Depending on windspeed on the day in particular, and the size of the bomb. But, a fairly conservative estimate for a sizable bomb (1 megaton or so, ground-burst [the dirtiest]) is 500 miles downwind. Now that’s not saying that you won’t get any radioactive fallout, but it won’t reach lethal levels.
204 posted on 07/17/2007 8:06:16 PM PDT by ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY ( Terrorism is a symptom, ISLAM IS THE DISEASE!)
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To: devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; dixiechick2000

Ping


205 posted on 07/17/2007 8:10:10 PM PDT by potlatch (MIZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MIKAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_))
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To: potlatch; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; dixiechick2000; Travis McGee

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Chertoff, Condi, Bush seem to have adopted the “take a hit first” plans of the left

I think it’s time to tell the UN and the rest of the world to just shut up get under desks

And make an island or two or three disappear forever as a demo


206 posted on 07/17/2007 8:22:29 PM PDT by devolve ( _Google-Illegals_Killed_25_Americans_Each_Day _A_Mex_Illegal_Alien_Sold_911_Terrorists_IDs_)
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To: devolve

[And make an island or two or three disappear forever as a demo]

That would probably be a pretty good idea right now, but the libs would yell and scream.

The terrorists need some major threat but they are so scattered that it’s hard to do.


207 posted on 07/17/2007 8:27:49 PM PDT by potlatch (MIZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MIKAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_))
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To: BritExPatInFla
fearfilledfundraisers

Precisely. But the clientelle enjoys freakin' out so much.

208 posted on 07/17/2007 8:33:31 PM PDT by nicollo (you're freakin' out!)
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To: EndWelfareToday

I believe that in addition to the 7 named cities, two more could be added to create a complete picture of the destruction - Mecca and Medina. Those two would disappear from the map, possibly Tehran and Damascus also.


209 posted on 07/17/2007 8:34:48 PM PDT by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: jeddavis

That my friends should be the result after the next homicide event no matter how small or how isolated. It should be clear in the minds of every muslim that our resolve is to end their insanity in the only way possible, with vivid examples beginning in Mecca, and remaining comments self censored.


210 posted on 07/17/2007 9:13:09 PM PDT by wita (truthspeaksi@freerepublic.comr)
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To: potlatch

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It’s not the logistics or technology -

It’s the will to do it by leaders who have not learned since Pearl Harbor or 911 -

It’s a Senate full of pansies and traitors -


211 posted on 07/17/2007 9:14:45 PM PDT by devolve ( _Google-Illegals_Killed_25_Americans_Each_Day _A_Mex_Illegal_Alien_Sold_911_Terrorists_IDs_)
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To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY

“I’m not saying we won’t get our hair mussed up, but 10-20 million tops, depending on the breaks.”

Gen. Buck Turgidson, the George C. Scott character in Dr. Strangelove


212 posted on 07/17/2007 9:19:12 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
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To: devolve

I know. Your mind never takes a break.


213 posted on 07/17/2007 9:28:46 PM PDT by potlatch (MIZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MIKAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_MAZARU_ooo_‹(•¿•)›_ooo_))
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To: EndWelfareToday

Nuke mecca during hajj.


214 posted on 07/17/2007 9:30:33 PM PDT by Pro-Bush (hater)
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To: RockinRight
In all seriousness, such an attack would kill MILLIONS of good, innocent Patriotic Americans, and turn our economy back 100 years.

In retaliation, I’d say nuke Medina, Mecca, Jeddah, Riyadh, Tehran, Baghdad, Amman, Dubai, Mogadishu, and throw in Pyongyang, Beijing, Havana, and Moscow for good measure.

If we got nuked we would probably respond with a peace vigil, considering the leaders we currently have.

215 posted on 07/17/2007 9:30:51 PM PDT by Dengar01
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To: Edgerunner
I tend to agree with you. I still remember the almost unanimous reaction to 9/11... I think almost every able bodied American wanted revenge. I think our Government and loonie lefties are spineless and idiotic, but not red-blooded Americans. I’m too old and too unfit to go over to fight physically but believe me I would do anything within my power and abilities to defend my country.
216 posted on 07/17/2007 9:32:41 PM PDT by republican4ever (Israel's fate determines the fate of the world, whether we believe and like it or not.)
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To: samtheman
Erase Mecca and you essentially end Islam.

I agree.

Someday, this will become the climax in the war with Islam.

The defining moment through which the West declares that it intends to win....

- John

217 posted on 07/17/2007 10:14:51 PM PDT by Fishrrman
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