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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[Dallas59]

[tallhappy]

Fantasy land. We won't even blow up a dirty mosque in falluja.

We didn't even kill Mullah Omar when he's in sights because the lawyer had to OK it first.

But selling a "private" newspaper that tickles ears is a way to make some dough, so....

[BykrBayb]

That's down right purdy!

[kb2614]

Nice pic!

;-)

[Darkwolf377]

I'd agree with you, except those decisions were in the context of an ongoing war. Nuking Mecca would be payback for a repeat of 9-11. And how did we respond to 9-11? By taking down two countries.

How to respond to a 9-11 Part II? Taking out Mecca, despite your legitimate point, would be in keeping with Bush's response to the first one.

[RichInOC]

Oh, my...Osama's been reading my posts.

[expatguy]

This subject sounds familar -

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1306881/posts?page=145#145

An Amerrican Expat in Southeast Asia

[Darkwolf377]

Approaching pilgrims could see Mecca in the distance better if it glowed in the dark.

[Moderate right-winger]

Nuking Mecca won't accomplish anything, except alienate almost all the Muslims in the world. But threatening Damascus, Khartoum or any other potential terrorist- harboring states is more practical. Even that Libyan leader is untrustworthy.

[Moderate right-winger]

Nuking Mecca won't accomplish anything, except alienate almost all the Muslims in the world. But threatening Damascus, Khartoum or any other potential terrorist- harboring states is more practical. Even that Libyan leader is untrustworthy.

[Dallas59]

I think it maybe enough to warn the Muslimes that SEVERAL nuke missles are aimed at Yecca and it wouldn't take much to let one fly. I think that rock would remain pretty hot for a long time.

[endthematrix]

The US will not nuke Mecca. Now Iran's and N Korea's nuclear program is on the table for sure.

[sheik yerbouty]

"O ye of little faith.."

[Squantos]

Bin Laden is "playing poker with a Texas cowboy holding the nuclear aces,"

Tell us something we didn't know.....:o)

[miltonim]

[expatguy]

Nonsense.

Who cares about Damascus or Khartoum? Do you think the threat of us nuking Damascus is gonna make the extremsists in Indonesia come around? They could care less.

The threat of us nuking Mecca though. That gets their attention, or as my father used to say. "Gets them by the short and curlies"

[billybudd]

OK, so some unnamed bureaucrats insinuate that the US would nuke Mecca if alQaeda struck again. Not exactly an iron-clad nuclear policy. This sounds like rumor and speculation. Most likely wishful thinking.

[Dallas59]

Spilled Pepsi accident...

[DoughtyOne]

This is really a very unfortunate rumor. Here we are enguaged in a war trying to enlist the help of the average Iraqi on the street, and here some well meaning (or NOT) dufus is lofting a hypothetical that sees us destroying the most sacred shrine known to those very Iraqi folks on the street.

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.