Posted on 05/11/2002 10:00:00 AM PDT by ppaul
WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The CIA has concluded that the United States will be rocked by a major attack from Islamic insurgents.
Officials said U.S. intelligence has assessed that the attack would probably come from Saudi fugitive Osama Bin Laden or his allies. They said the Bin Laden operation would seek to match the suicide attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11.
Such an attack, officials said, is likely to once again target New York or Washington. Over the last two weeks, the FBI, which works with the CIA in the Counter-Terrorist Center, has issued two warnings of terrorist attacks. The agency said it obtained information that insurgents have targeted banks and shopping malls in northeastern United States.
"Now for the hard truth," CIA Deputy Director for Operation James Pavitt said. "Despite the best efforts of so much of the world, the next terrorist attack -- it's not a question of if, it's a question of when. The threat that we face today from global terrorism is real, it's immediate, and it is unlike any other we have faced before. I say this from 30 years of experience in an intelligence function."
Link to article HERE.
Attacks on malls, banks, shopping centers would only demonstrate that Americans have a right to carry and will defend themselves (if you haven't got your CCW, please apply now, and use it).
Airplane attacks are now passe, every American on an airliner has a plan to whomp hijackers on the head with a laptop computer (at least this one does).
Biologicals and nukes are the remaining alternatives. For a country providing, say, smallpox, the danger is that you'll eventually be infected, making this a less-than-optimal choice.
So back to nukes. Obviously the best choice.
But we've put several source countries on warning that if the U.S. is nuked, they're now on the target list. Of course it was all denied, but what's the difference? If we're attacked, then China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria go down. Denied or not, the leak was intended to inform. And informed they now are.
Do you think the Islamists are more convincing to these nuclear regimes than the U.S.? I don't.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/643744/posts
"The Pentagon has described as misleading a published report asserting the White House had directed the US military to prepare contingency plans to use nuclear weapons against China, Russia, Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Libya and Syria."
It must not be entirely comforting to the rulers of Iraq, Iran, Libya and Syria that if a nuke explodes in the U.S., then they lose their capitols.
How 'generalized' is this warning?
I don't think they have nukes(yet) but they may have a "dirty nuke" bomb or chem-bio weapons which would be bad enough.
Well if thousands more die in another massive attack, remember, our open border, immigration "free for all" is what will allow the enemy to conduct their operations. I too believe this is going to happen, as the government has allowed hundreds of thousands, even many millions into our country, and they have not a clue, who these people are, where these people are, or even what these people are doing here.
Since 911 nothing serious has been done. I honestly thought that by midnight on 9-12-01 the borders would have been sealed as best possible, and that an immediate freeze on people obtaining visas into this country would have been put into effect. When this didn't happen, I was stunned!
That is something we could and should do. It is, as you say, a humane and civilized thing to do. No matter how much kerfuffle got raised from such a statement- Dubya should get on national television and say that right into the camera. The lefties, the UN, the EU, the Arab world and PETA would probably go nuts but, it would be out there and nobody could say they didn't know what was coming to 'em when they got nuked.
The next best thing would have been (and I hope it happened) for Dubya to have told the Saudi leader he just had to his ranch in no uncertain terms that that is exactly what will happen and for him to go back and tell all his jihad, Islam brothers the news. That approach is more diplomatic and would avoid a lot of hell being raised, but less effective IMO. Bin Laden might just say "Bollocks! I don't believe it!" and detonate his nuke anyway. If Dubya did it on television, people would know he was serious.
That would have some powerful deterence value.
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