Posted on 10/30/2001 6:33:30 AM PST by PrivacyChampion
FOX NEWS just reporting that there is a potential risk of a nuclear terrorist attack against the US, maybe within the Continental borders with a 'dirty nuke' that has been smuggled across the Mexican border.
This is the threat that AG Ashcroft warned about yesterday.
Just a beer?....We'll trade rounds :)
Honestly I think nuclear is the only way to end this and end it now.........though I'm sure many will disagree.....and I'd like to be wrong the idea of nukes scares me too
But, of course, I wasn't advocating genocide. When you have children who will not stop fighting over a toy, you take it away from them. My position was/is: give a warning, allow all the people to disperse, then make all the holy sites uninhabitable. I stated at the time that if we did NOT do this, we would have a world war. Sorry to say, it looks like I will be owed some beers, here. You may have one of them:).
But there is some interesting commentary in this newer messagethread about this:
Feb. 26, 1993 - WTC Building 2 takes a bomb probably intended to fell the building.
5½ years later
Aug. 7, 1998 - Bombing of the USS Cole, intended to sink it.
2 years and 2 months later
Oct. 25, 2000 - Simultaneous bombings of US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
11 months later
Sept. 11, 2001 - WTC and Pentagon bombed by airplanes. One plane in 4 failed to hit the target.
(What's the next timeline? Keep cutting the time in half.. so that's maybe 6 months..)
What happens in THIS COUNRTY approximately 6 months after 9/11? That's the OLYMPICS my friends. In February. If that's not a very sweet target for a terrorist attack, I don't know what is. Even if the target is not the Olympics per se, security is going to be so concentrated there that other places may be somewhat lax during those weeks.
This would be why there has not been another attack even with the US military pounding on Afghanistan the way they have. There have been many posts here and elsewhere along the "if they had it they would have used it" variety. Personally, I don't like waiting for the other shoe to drop. It's no way to live.
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