Analysts see major investment in a complex, coordinated, devastating terror attack plan. From WND:
WASHINGTON – Recent al-Qaida attacks using primitive bombs and inflicting relatively small numbers of casualties have persuaded some that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network has been unable to secure weapons of mass destruction or has been unable to smuggle them into the U.S. and other key target countries.
In the wake of a series of reports from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin about the nuclear terrorism threat, some skeptics of al-Qaida's ability to detonate nuclear weapons inside the U.S. most often suggest the problems with maintenance and technical attention.
Others suggest Osama bin Laden may have purchased duds on the black market. Others point out that the triggers on suitcase nukes decay rapidly and have short half lives. The nuclear cores, after a time, fall below the critical mass threshold, say the optimists. Even the shells are subject to contamination over time if not properly maintained, they say.
Unfortunately, finds Paul Williams, author of the upcoming book, "The Al Qaeda Connection: International Terrorism, Organized Crime and the Coming Apocalypse," there's little point in assessing the possibilities with rose-colored glasses....
Williams dismisses suggestions that bin Laden hasn't taken into account some obvious problems with nuclear weapons.
"Bin Laden has been extremely mindful of proper maintenance," he writes. "As soon as he obtained the weapons, he paid an amount estimated from $60 to $100 million for the assistance of nuclear scientists from Russia, China and Pakistan. From 1996 to 2001, bin Laden also kept a score of Spetznaz technicians from the former Soviet Union on his payroll. These technicians had been trained to open and operate the weapons in order to prevent any unauthorized use. To simplify the process of activation, the scientists and technicians came up with a way of hot-wiring the small nukes to the bodies of Muslim agents who long for immediate martyrdom and immediate elevation to the seventh heaven."...
"The next attack, according to al-Qaida defectors and informants, will take place simultaneously at various sites throughout the country," he writes. "Designated targets include New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Houston, Las Vegas, and Valdez, Alaska, where the tankers are filled with oil from the Trans-Alaska pipeline. To orchestrate such an incredible event requires not only the shipment of the nukes into the United States but also the establishment of cells, the training of sleeper agents, the selection of sites, and the preparation of the weapons without detection from federal, state or local law enforcement officials. Unlike 9-11, that cost less than $350,000, this event already has cost a king's ransom, and bin Laden will not waste the billions in expenditures, the years of planning and his coveted 'crown jewels' on an attack that is ill-planned, poorly timed and carelessly coordinated."...
Williams also speculates that the delay in launching attacks with weapons already smuggled inside the U.S. could be due to reports al-Qaida is determined to locate tactical nuclear weapons that were forward-deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. These weapons were reportedly buried at remote sites throughout the country for recovery by Soviet agents.
"There is no doubt that the Soviets stored material in this country," says Rep. Curt Weldon, R-Pa., chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Research. "The question is what and where."...
I agree there will indeed be simultaneous attacks, but I suspect the attacks will be coordinated to strike all the major cities of the world (or at least the "West") at the same time, in order to maximize the chaos and destruction.
The question is what and where."...
MORE LIKE WHERE AND WHEN
BOXER I AM WITH YOU ON THIS ONE
Allah needs to build more rooms in his paradise motel and cat house...a coordinated, large scale nuke attack will do lots of damage and kill lots of people. But there are ships at sea, and planes in the air, everyone left will be howling for muslim blood. Good bye Islam, you went out in a blaze of glory, and in the end, you are no more... Allah knows best...
The "nuke Mecca" option is shear stupidity. I fail to see the military value in nuking Mecca. While it is the center of the Muslim world, there are no military assets there. Attacking Mecca will only earn the US the outright & active enmity of every Muslim in the world. Do we really want nuclear armed Pakistan giving their arsenal to al Qaeda?
Even if the US is attacked with nuclear weapons, and the US retailates with nukes, why bomb an isolated unmilitarized city? The US would probably target Tehran (& several other sites in Iran), Damascus, Cairo, & the Bekka valley, and the major Saudi military facilties. Mecca would be spared, just as the US spared Kyoto while bombing Japan.
Williams also speculates that the delay in launching attacks with weapons already smuggled inside the U.S. could be due to reports al-Qaida is determined to locate tactical nuclear weapons that were forward-deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. These weapons were reportedly buried at remote sites throughout the country for recovery by Soviet agents.
Oh that is just great, looks like our failure to guard our borders goes back a while.
Of course, the facts surrounding so-called 'al Qaeda's' effort to acquire and deliver WMD to American soil are elusive: but we know that such efforts are underway and have known for some time now. And yet, the administration, our allies, nearly everyone who falls victim to the global jihad, will not identify the enemy and the ideology which drives this enemy: muhajediin, jihadists, who seek to establish the new caliphate in Muslim countries and the destruction of the West by infiltration, demographic take-over, and tactical violence that includes the delivery of WMD, if necessary. And, one more time, the goal of establishing Sharia law in Muslim and Western countries, and the religious obligation to 'fight' for that goal is not an 'extremist' position in Islam: these goals are central to Islam itself.
Given the stakes of this conflict, given its undeniable reality, how in the world can our leaders, the media, academics not identify the enemy and speak the names they give themselves, 'muhajediin', and the names of the war, 'jihad', and the name of the belief system that supports the war, the tactics and methods of the 'fighters' (deception, tactical cease fire agreements, infiltration, martyrdom) grounded in the Sunnah, and the goals of the war: the new caliphate, destruction of Western society, Islamic domination?
Until we identify the enemy and this ideology, our efforts will continue to be confused, non-productive, and will enlarge the possibilities that muhajediin and their allies will succeed in what they are trying to do: deliver WMD to an American city.
We might not ever nuke Mecca, but eventually use regular bombs to damage it or cut it off from the rest of the world instead. And it might take a while for that to happen.
Over the weekend I watched the History Channel's show about Hiroshima. As I recall my history (never one of my best subjects, I'm a computer person), the allies decided very early on in the war to not bomb the city, which was well known for its beauty and for a Buddhist (or Taoist? or?) temple.
And look what happened....
I am distressed at the sense of sure knowledge of buried soviet weapons in the US. Have any ever been found in this country? Does anyone have information on this?
At last a site that cuts through the BS and gives some real news...and some intelligent comment.
I however can not see any advantage to the west in bombing what is a religious site. If we wanted to make a statement, the Bec'ka valley of Lebenon would be a much better target. Not only is it the home of terror training units , but its limestone caves probably are the hidding place of Saddam's WMD.
Nuke the United States and you have automatic Islamic Genocide. There's no way differentiate between a radical and peaceful Muslim so all are suspect. A nuclear attack on US soil renders no stupid response - all bets are off at this point. This is a war on Fundamental Islam and the sooner the non-Muslim world realizes this, the sooner Muslims may start policing their own radicals. It is not acceptable to murder ANY human being for such a backward belief system (a "memetic virus" if you ask me).
Nuking Mecca is not stupidity, it is terminal accountability. Be Allah a real entity or just another puff of holy smoke, the Islamic faith and it's proponents are 100% accountable for the actions of it's global culture. Nuclear annihilation of Mecca will not simply snap the spine of Islam. This sadly would not stop with vaporization of a pilgrimage center.
If the worst happens:
Islamic leaders, Muslims one and all, mosques and places of Islamic learning in the modern world will be ejected back their religious land or interned into razor wire camps. The stupidity comes from the Fascist, racist and anti-semitic nature of this desert warrior religion insisting on submission or death. If these murderers insist, their own people will suffer the most and longest. Nuke innocent lives and complacent Muslims may yet be exposed to a genocidal "witch hunt" fueled by shameless hatred.
Islams failure to recognize non-Muslim humanity as equal and sovereign to it's own will be it's extinction - from radical Islam to peaceful and personal Islam - one and all. Islamic mass murder in the name of Allah is not only shameful but false. I once heard that the devil does his greatest work closest to the altar. Hmmmm. Lots of religions have altars.
"Carolyn2" (http://profile.typekey.com/Carolyn2) are you "C_4" (http://www.blogger.com/profile/11422513) at blogger.com or is someone impersonating you?
Did you write this?
Informed Christian-
This "C_4" posted at a similar 'back-up' BLOGGER comments site I have set up (in case COMMENTS closes here... which I hope it does not), but I can't verify if it is really "Carolyn2".
http://watchmyjihad.blogspot.com/
On the first post "NO COMMENT, AND DON'T QUOTE ME!"
-whose "comments" I had to close, since a troll clogged them with 'generated' obscene nonsense. (I tried to get BLOGGER to delete them en masse, and bar the poster, but no luck yet.)
"C4" is a military grade plastic explosive, no?
That sounds like Carolyn2's sense of humor, but I'll be curious to see if it is her or not, too.
(I threw a few comments on your site using the blogger name "WatchOnTheMind" -since my JW/DW TypeKey monicker "bigsleep" was already taken -probably by a noir film fan- at BLOGGER. And the two sites with that name, there, "thebigsleep" and "bigsleep" are by & about a boozing cricket fan in England, and a guy commenting on obscure, pricey camping gear, respectively... while I was hoping for arcana about Raymond Chandler and Humphrey Bogart.)
I wonder why anyone takes Paul Williams seriously since he offers no proof to back up his assertion. His sensational claims remind me of the Y2K scare from five years ago.Y2K was supposed to destroy the country.I guess Williams doesn't know that 20 year old buried nukes (if they exist) are useless. The plutonium and the explosive packs around the nukes have detriorated rendering the nukes useless.That is if they even exist.
Several posters wrote that they saw no point in bombing civilian sites (Mecca). Mecca is the epicenter of Islam. It is the most important "holy site" in all of the Islamic world. Every able-bodied muslim is required to make at least one pilgramage to Mecca. All muslims face Mecca five times a day to pray and millions of pilgrims visit Mecca annually to perform rituals around the Kabah.
Some experts have theorized that Mecca is the Achilles heel of Islam and that its destruction would ultimately destroy Islam. Since the murderous fanatics who want to destroy us love only one thing---Islam, these experts believe that the threat of Mecca's destruction would deter the radicals from catastrophic acts of terror (nuclear, biological). And they posit that this is the only deterrent that will work. The lunatics are not afraid to die; they don't care if their families die; they don't care if thousands of fellow muslims are sacrificed in their attacks on us. They don't care about anything but the continuation and spread of Islam, and its eventual domination of the world.
Other experts believe that the destruction of Mecca would only further inflame muslim antipathy towards the West and that they would all go berserk. It's hard to say, but if they detonate nukes in America, I don't think we would have much to lose. Islam is the source of all the terrorism in the world. Its doctrine teaches and demands perpetual war against non-muslims until all people have converted to Islam or become dhimmis.
When the West allowed muslims to immigrate en masse to its countries, scourges comparable to those inside Pandora's box were unleashed on the unsuspecting, civilized world. The liberal-minded, multicultural devotees in Europe ignored the incongruous immigrants until they began raping, killing, and exposing the archaic, savage aspects of their culture. By the time that cold, hard reality set in, it was too late.
I believe that America is on the same path that Europe has taken. I don't know if our illustrious leaders are paying close attention to the crisis in the U.K., but I certainly hope so. Some have suggested that we don't have a muslim problem because they have assimilated here and are more affluent than their British counterparts. We haven't had many problems here (yet) because the muslim population is still small. They have not assimilated and their economic status is irrelevant. The wealthier ones are generous contributors to all Islamic "causes", including terrorism. We have a problem here in the form of an indeterminable number of terror cells, possibly waiting to detonate nuclear bombs or other catastrophic devices. We have a problem here with seditious Islamic groups like C.A.I.R. and the Muslim Student Association. We have a problem here with Wahabi hate schools and mosques where superiority, hate, and intolerance are taught daily.
We will cease to have a problem when Islam becomes illegal in America. Until then, we have to live, work, and attend school with our "patriotic" muslim citizens and hope that the ones next door, or the ones at work and school won't walk in and blow us all up one day. There is no way to pick them out of a crowd, no way to tell who is a fanatic and who isn't. So it looks like Russian Roulette is the name of the game for a long time to come.
Hi guys, yes it is me (C_4). Blogger said my name was unavailable lol!
There can be no doubt that the next gigantic terror attack will happen. If it will happen exactly the same way as predicted here, we don`t know.
The question is: When it happens, will the survivors of the apocalypse wake up from their multiculturalist coma and acknowledge the enemy?
Being on several liberal mailing lists and reading the media, I am afraid not. 9/11 SHOULD have woken up everybody. It did wake up a couple of stragglers like C. Hitchens, but that is all.
I am afraid the political and intellectual elite will prefer suicide (assisted suicide in this case) to giving up their dogma.
Nothing, nothing, nothing will wake them up. Even after New York is nuked, we will still not be allowed to blame "the religion of peace".