Posted on 01/19/2005 12:55:45 PM PST by 1Old Pro
Just heard, apparently police are out in force after hearing of the threat
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Shep just talked about it again....same thing as before, 4 Chinese suspects, tip that they came in from Mexico....
"The hell with being proportionate. These people want to screw around and cut peoples heads off and scare the bejezus out of our women and children."
To go nuclear, we could not take half measures. We would need to round up all the Islamics in the US as well, and never let them free. Or ship them out. They would become too dangerous. We would have to level ALL Islamic countries. The sooner the better if we take that route. I would hate to see that.
Reasonable.
I was thinking of Boston as the feint and DC as the target, but yours would work even better for them.
I stronly suspect that there is a LOT we are not being told, and that's all to the good.
Boston to NY takes only 4 hours---Flight 1 hour.
So now terrorists are outsourcing to China. At least they'll do it cheaper.
China has had quite an attitude for a few years.
I wouldn't doubt that they'd send people to attack.
"Cruise missile?"
Birds are very significant in Arab culture, if I'm not mistaken. A falcon? Predator bird. Nukes. Is there any missile called a falcon?
I would hate to see it as well. But it becoming more clear each day that these people only speak one language, the language of blood and death and agony.
If there was any kind of event in Boston or anywhere else that released radioactivity, the rest of the world would begrudgingly understand a nuclear response.
"...terrorists are now outsourcing to China.."
Good one.
I'm not immediately worried about China, though. The description was "Chinese looking" and, as many other posters have pointed out already, that could mean Filipino, Japanese, Indonesian etc.
Good one!....The "Chinese" all look like young people.....They may have been promised their freedom if they'd act as carriers.....But may pay with their lives.
They make some pretty big yachts.
Or they could freight it across in severl trips, or tow a little bit at a time behaind the boat under the water, making several trips.
Or they could ship it across the ocean, transferring it to a smaller vessel in sheltered waters in the dark of night.
The smaller vessel wouldn't even have to take it aboard: it could be fastened beneath the vessel: when submerged, the stuff would weigh less, and perhaps the water would help to shield the radiation from detection.
I seem to remember that the rubber raft that blew the hole in the Cole, they said had the explosives under, and not in, the raft.
China has a missile that can reach the CONUS, right?
"I strongly suspect that there is a LOT we are not being told, and that's all to the good."
Short term, yes. Long term, voters push their touch screens blindly, not knowing the score.
Hughes AGM-76 Falcon
The AGM-76 was an air-to-ground derivative of the AIM-47 Falcon long-range air-to-air missile, and was planned in the mid-1960s as an air-to-ground weapon for the North American F-108 Mach 3 fighter. When the F-108 was cancelled, its weapons suite (AN/ASG-18 fire-control system, AIM-47, AGM-76) was transferred to the forthcoming Lockheed F-12. Twenty-two XAGM-76A test missiles were eventually built, ten of which were test-fired from the YF-12A prototypes.
The AGM-76 was guided by the AN/ASG-18 FCS (Fire-Control System), which had some air-to-ground modes added for this purpose. The hypersonic missile had a range of more than 160 km (100 miles), and its 250 kT thermonuclear warhead would usually be detonated in an air-burst.
After the generally successful XAGM-76A test program, the USAF planned to procure AGM-76A production missiles to equip the F-12B production version of the YF-12A. So armed, the F-12 could have been used as a very fast deep-strike attack platform. However, when the F-12B was cancelled, the AGM-76 program was stopped, too.
Specifications Note: Data given by several sources show slight variations. Figures given below may therefore be inaccurate! Data for XAGM-76A: Length 3.20 m (126 in) Wingspan 0.838 m (33 in) Diameter 0.335 m (13.2 in) Speed > Mach 4 Range > 160 km (100 miles) Warhead 250 kT thermonuclear Main Sources [1] Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility website, list of exhibits in Building 22 [2] Anonymous "primary source" on the AGM-76 program
Ruth...Do you remember the falcon threat and discussion?
A 'Dirty Bomb' in Boston would IMPROVE most of it.
Oh my Gawd!! What a horrible scare tactic for the terrorists to use! If they now include CBS the NY Slimes, all MSM, hitlerry and boxer, it could put our country on its knees. The streets will flood with tears and echo's of surrender will be heard around the country. This is big trouble..BIG !!!
There are a million ways they could smuggle WMDs, just as you pointed out. When people say 'can't', watch out. We should never forget how a cheap piece of wood made Japanese torpedoes able to sink ships at Pearl Harbor. FReegards....
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