Has U.S. threatened to vaporize Mecca?

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Friday, January 7, 2005

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Has U.S. threatened
to vaporize Mecca?
Intelligence expert says nuke option is reason bin Laden has been quiet

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Posted: January 7, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

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© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Why hasn't Osama bin Laden's terror network executed an attack on U.S. soil since 9-11?

Simple, says Dr. Jack Wheeler, creator of an acclaimed intelligence website dubbed "the oasis for rational conservatives": The U.S. has threatened to nuke the Muslim holy city of Mecca should the terror leader strike America again.

On his website, To the Point, Wheeler explains how the Bush administration has identified the potential of wiping Mecca off the map as bin Laden's ultimate point of vulnerability – the Damoclean Sword hanging over his head.

"Israel … recognizes that the Aswan Dam is Egypt's Damoclean Sword," writes Wheeler. "There is no possibility whatever of Egypt's winning a war with Israel, for if Aswan is blown, all of inhabited Egypt is under 20 feet of water. Once the Israelis made this clear to the Egyptians, the possibility of any future Egyptian attack on Israel like that of 1948, 1967, and 1972 is gone."

Wheeler says talk of bin Laden's Damoclean Sword has infiltrated the Beltway.

Writes Wheeler in his members-only column: "There has been a rumor floating in the Washington ether for some time now that George Bush has figured out what Sword of Damocles is suspended over Osama bin Laden's head. It's whispered among Capitol Hill staffers on the intel and armed services committees; White House NSC (National Security Council) members clam up tight if you begin to hint at it; and State Department neo-cons love to give their liberal counterparts cardiac arrhythmia by elliptically conversing about it in their presence.

"The whispers and hints and ellipses are getting louder now because the rumor explains the inexplicable: Why hasn't there been a repeat of 9-11? How can it be that after this unimaginable tragedy and Osama's constant threats of another, we have gone over three years without a single terrorist attack on American soil?"

Available only to subscribers of To the Point, Wheeler ends his column by explaining the effectiveness of the Mecca threat.

"Completely obliterating the terrorists' holiest of holies, rendering what is for them the world's most sacred spot a radioactive hole in the ground is retribution of biblical proportions – and those are the only proportions that will do the job.

"Osama would have laughed off such a threat, given his view that Americans are wussies who cut and run after a few losses, such as Lebanon in 1983 and Somalia in 1993. Part of Bush's rationale for invading Afghanistan and Iraq – obviously never expressed publicly – was to convince Osama that his threat to nuke Mecca was real. Osama hates America just as much as ever, but he is laughing no more."

Wheeler says bin Laden is "playing poker with a Texas cowboy holding the nuclear aces," so there's nothing al-Qaida could do that could come remotely close to risking obliterating Mecca.

Writes Wheeler: "So far, Osama has decided not to see if GW is bluffing. Smart move."

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[HAL9000]

I don't think anyone suggested the US was planning to nuke Mecca.

Right. A close reading of Wheeler's articles show that he isn't literally saying we should "Nuke Mecca" - he's saying we should "Threaten to Nuke Mecca" as a deterrent against future attacks.

But everyone knows it's an empty threat, so it's not much of a deterrent.

[Star Traveler]

You said -- "This is what one might call a wedge issue. It couldn't be designed better to separate us from potential allies, if it were designed by Laden himself."

You don't understand the issue of the legitimacy of Islam and that no amount of so-called "PR" can overcome the lost legitimacy of their primary symbol being destroyed. At that point, Osama would become history's "has been", to disappear off history's pages.

We should definitely target their primary symbol of legitimacy, which (supposedly) makes Islam superior to all other religions.

A corollary to that is that Islam must destroy Judaism and Christianity as the only serious competitors to it. But without that symbol, Islam is destroyed at its heart -- never to come back again.

Mind you, we're not talking about destroying a city full of people, but rather -- the symbol alone. With the symbol gone, the people will "cave". The Christians and Jews can then subject every single last Muslim to infinite ridicule of their so-called religion -- just like the prophets of the Old Testament did to Israel's enemies. I would make it totally relentless ridicule, using their destroyed symbol of Islam, as the point of the spear.

Regards,
Star Traveler

[blogbat]

I hate wedgies.

[tm22721]

Are you kidding ?

Nuking Mecca is what Osama wants ! He has been trying to get us to respond rashly in order to whip up fervor amongst his one billion brethern.

America's international corporations (globaloney) are doing a good job of furthering American cultural domination. It's why the world hates us.

The US military is why the world now respects us.

BUMP

[Darkwolf377]

If we threatened to send Haliburton there to make improvements then the left would REALLY consider Bush a warmonger.

[Route101]

Looks good to me....they won't take us seriously until we do.........

[Star Traveler]

My last post included a comment from someone else. It was actually this comment which was responded to --

You said -- "Fabulous PR for him to whip Muslims throughout the world into a frenzy."

You don't understand the issue of the legitimacy of Islam and that no amount of so-called "PR" can overcome the lost legitimacy of their primary symbol being destroyed. At that point, Osama would become history's "has been", to disappear off history's pages.

We should definitely target their primary symbol of legitimacy, which (supposedly) makes Islam superior to all other religions.

A corollary to that is that Islam must destroy Judaism and Christianity as the only serious competitors to it. But without that symbol, Islam is destroyed at its heart -- never to come back again.

Mind you, we're not talking about destroying a city full of people, but rather -- the symbol alone. With the symbol gone, the people will "cave". The Christians and Jews can then subject every single last Muslim to infinite ridicule of their so-called religion -- just like the prophets of the Old Testament did to Israel's enemies. I would make it totally relentless ridicule, using their destroyed symbol of Islam, as the point of the spear.

Regards,
Star Traveler

[freeangel]

What is funnier is the wnd poll which asks opinion on the mecca nuke thing. WND is conservative, but in my opinion, not a radical site. The #1 answer was that not only should we nuke mecca, but lace the bomb with pigs blood.

[HAL9000]

If we threatened to send Haliburton there to make improvements then the left would REALLY consider Bush a warmonger.

Too late. Halliburton has already been there for decades.

[blogbat]

Heck, how about whole pigs. Then we can all show up for a good ol' fashioned Tennessee BBQ after fallout blows east on its journey to Tehran.

[bilrak]

Its not the actual USE but the credible THREAT to use nuclear weapons which is used to support policy - if Bush can be convincing enough in his threat it would probabaly be an effective deterrent. However if Mecca were to be actually nuked, I'm sure LOTs of muslims would start losing their belief in Islam blaming Allah's inability to protect his own house

[Star Traveler]

You said -- "Threatening to nuke Mecca wouldn't stop him. Nuking Mecca wouldn't stop him. Killing him and his AQ group is the only option - just my 2 cents, of course."

The problem with your assessment is that bin Laden is not the "disease" -- Islam is the disease.

Kill bin Laden and his associates and the disease continues. Kill the core symbols of Islam and the disease dies.

And by the way, I'm not saying "threaten" -- I'm saying "Do it!"

Regards,
Star Traveler

[blogbat]

Which might then give us a bunch of rabid new communists among the leaders...but I think the common man would just go home. Either way, the option to do anything for us must always be on the table, just as my option to use any means of force necessary to defend myself against a mugger is not only viable, but vital. The terrorist must know he pulls the trigger on himself. If he is willing to die for superstition, that's fine, but we prefer not die along with him.

[blogbat]

I'm actually curious to see how some meteorites react to extreme heat and radioactivity.

[DooDahhhh]

We can only hope he has : )

[hershey]

This makes sense, and God, I hope it's true.

[shekkian]

What we should do, after we vaporize Mecca, is air-drop tons of pig carcasses over the site.

[hershey]

Libya came around like a lamb, and that's not fantasy land. A phone call from GW with plain talk or a diplomatic note handed over in private is not boots on the ground stuff we see on TV or read in the papers, but yields richer rewards.

[dimmer-rats stealvotes]

straw that breaks (plain old verb) the camel's back--possessive noun: the back is the camel's. Good comments though.