Posted on 07/25/2008 5:38:07 AM PDT by SJackson
What's that you say? Hiroshima's population is 1.6 million and Nagasaki's is half a million?
"Irreparable" by what standard?
See #9
You know why lawyers always wear a tie?
The tie keeps the foreskin from slipping up over the head.
It could be ‘’THE RAPTURE’’are we ready?
This rumor is at least 5 years old.
Ergo, this article is hooey.
...but we understand the sentiment.
;)
Lame indeed.
PAUL POTTS SINGS NUKE MECCA - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZzUSiFIIg8
That should have started 9/12/01.
I doubt it. President Bush is a good guy, maybe too good. He wouldn’t nuke “innocents” to get revenge for such an attack or even make that threat.
Besides, these clowns probably WANT us to do something like that. They could recruit virtually the entire Moslem world (1.2+ billion people) for war against us if we did that, and probably a good chunk of Europe and the Far East.
They just don’t have the nukes, or at least they don’t have working nukes.
You might be right.
On the other hand, the Russian response to a nuke might be to exterminate every living Chechen where ever they might be.
Slowly.
With dull, rusty spoons coated in bacon grease.
Russians don’t respond to threats and attacks the same way our politicians do. They are quite a bit more vicious and pragmatic.
My research on this topic is over 5 years old, so my memory is not that great on it, but here is what I remember.
1. According to Joel Rosenberg, novelist and politico with access to top level execs in the US, Israel, and former KGB - yes, there are ‘’Suitcae’’ nukes. They were to be used by Spetsnaz (sp?) during the cold war, for pre-emption purposes.
2. They are small kt. and yes, suitcase sized - but were to be used in in elongated backpacks due to the triggering device, so maybe the vernacular should have been ‘’backpack nukes’’. (I can’t site my sources, so see what you can find.)
3. The units do take maintenance, and, as I recall, offer little protection to the carrier. I recall there were other issues of instability and reliability that pointed to ‘’smoke ‘em if you got ‘em’’.
Now, as the former webmaster for Worldthreats.com, I believe there is compelling evidence that AQ has smuggled such devices. One source is from Hamid Mir, the only journalist to have had access to Bin Laden since the ny/dc massacres. On top of that, there is the fatwa(s) that Bin Laden lobbied for.
Still, I don’t buy it, myself. I fear Chinese or KGB false flag targeted strategies - but even those are too risky to attempt and survive (MAD).
I used to be obsessed with this crap and realized lfe was passing me by. lol!
I agree. I just started doing some IDPA competitions, and I’m hoping I can get some more of those in before anything really bad happens.
Don’t forget how close it is to Williamson, though.
The whole suitcase nuke theory has been going around for years now. It was started by a nut named Paul Williams. I am sorry to see that Weyrich has bought into it. Richard Miniter thoroughly debunked this theory in a book a few years ago.
This is too bad because it distracts from the fact that our borders are indeed truly vulnerable, that intelligence indicates Al Qaeda knows this and reports that Hezbollah has been involved in human smuggling along the Mexican border.
But when someone trots out the whole 20 suitcase nukes theory, all that gets lost in the bull####.
Well, I was thinking San Francisco Cleveland and maybe Needles.
1. They don’t exist, and there never were any.
2. They are not suitcase size they are refrigerator size.
3. They need to be serviced. The original ones are now no longer functional.
4. They are detectable.
Could one be snuck in without detection, at the border or destination. Sure, anything's possible. Twenty of twenty successes, I don't believe Homeland Security is that incompetent.
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