Posted on 03/30/2011 6:22:44 AM PDT by library user
CHICAGO (CBS 2) – The threats came in the mail and to date, there have been 25 letters that warn of nuclear bombs destroying America.
People who got them called the FBI and CBS 2′s Kristyn Hartman learned, the Bureau’s Chicago office is leading the investigation.
FBI Special Agent Andre Zavala said, “Yes, they alarmed a lot of people.”
Attorney Tracy Rizzo was alarmed. A number of days ago, an envelope, with a Chicago postmark and a hand-written address to her private investigations firm, came in the mail.
The letter inside said, “The Al-Qaeda organization has planted 160 nuclear bombs throughout the U.S. in schools, stadiums, churches, stores, financial institutions and government buildings.” It also said, “This is a suicide mission for us.”
The writer, who claims to be Osama Bin Laden, tells the reader the nukes are remotely controlled. “It was clear the writer wanted to scare me,” said Rizzo, “Yes, it frightened me.” Rizzo was one of eight people in the Chicago area to contact the FBI.
Agencies in Oregon, California, Texas and Florida also got the letter with the Chicago postmark.
“There are items in the letter that lead us to believe it is a hoax,” said Zavala. “There are several demands documented that aren’t fully coherent.”
He said much of what’s in the message doesn’t add up, but in a post 9-11 world, the FBI can’t let it go – even if it does appear to be a hoax.
“The FBI investigates every element. We can’t take that chance,” said Zavala.
So, why the threats?
The writer alluded to how families in Afghanistan have to live. The FBI said it will find that writer, and when it does, he could face 5 to 10 years in prison for each letter mailed. Anyone who’s received a similar letter should call the FBI.
Pakistan is the only muzzy majority country with feasible claims of having nuclear weapons. More likely, they have nuclear devices, which are neither hardened or ballistic (although they claim otherwise).
Even if that were true, the difference between creating a "weapon" that can be set off at a dedicated site, with months if not years of preparation under the complete direction of a team of top muzzy "scientists", and having some illiterate caveman assemble a nuclear device (much less smuggle in the components) that's operable is equivalent to the difference between a successful moon landing and return, and throwing a rock at the moon.
I don’t believe this for a second. If moslems ever get the chance to sneak a nuke into this country it will be detonated within minutes of reaching its final destination.
The best clue to this being a hoax is this.
To put such a nuclear bomb into the places this person listed, would be risky. If you have a nuke, you don’t need to place it in such places. You can place it in any vacant obscure place you want. It’s a fricken nuke for heaven’s sake.
This person listed the most hot button places he could think of to scare people. By so doing, he completely blew his credibility.
You list cities if you’ve got nukes, not a hospital, a school, a police department, or some other individual target.
I think you'll find this kind of "end justifies the means" mentality rampant at every federal bureaucracy. Administrations come and go. The career bureaucrats that inhabit and infest these agencies remain.
The Democrats are The Party of Big Government, and these bureaucrats are natural constituents and powerful allies. Their positions and proximity mean that in many ways they have better access to and more opportunity to influence your own representatives than you do.
Hmm.
If so, why haven’t they popped them yet?
If they had even one to almost work, they’d have used it by now. IMHO.
It can’t possibly be real, Obama hasn’t gone on vacation since this article was posted.
Maybe it’s a pschological ploy. If you only have a few nukes, one way to maximize the terror would be to claim more, set your nukes off at erratic intervals and watch people go crazy waiting for the non-existent ones to take out another target.
The idea of "dirty bomb" comes to mind - it doesn't have to be Nagasaki to be a mess...
A fudge banana rickshaw, an eternal cheese fountain, and a guaranteed lifetime supply of meat-suits are a small price to pay for safeguarding our nation.
Actually, it originated in Yemen, but was addressed to a Unitarian Church that was two doors down from an "islamic intutituion of America" or some such terrorist cover group.
You got that right!
Don’t worry, we can “absorb” it. /SAR
They ae telling us to make us nervous.....and they will pick the time to set them off.....reduces the voting population.
One more thought...
With five nuclear weapons you could destroy as many as 50 million U. S. Citizens. With ten you could destroy as many as 100 million U. S. Citizens. Why would you bother with 160?
Granted, the ground level explosion of the small type nuke this person’s organization would be able to facilitate, wouldn’t be as strong as what the U. S. and other governments have, so my numbers could be excessive based on that concept.
Still, you don’t need 160 weapons to cause extreme havoc. We’ve got a mental midget trying to get some blackmail payoff. End of story.
LOL
Stunning Response "Dirty Bombs (Nuclear) have been stopped at our border" it appears
Sadly, this sentence can also be used to describe Zero's Libya speech.
Yawn...
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