I'm taking this all very, very seriously. We can poke fun at Debka and dare the towel heads to come to our hometown where we will "blow them away," but the reality of the situation is that AQ will strike again here in the US, despite the best efforts of LEO, Homeland security, FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, etc. AQ and its agents and supporters want us dead in a big way. Based upon the AQ videos/audios that were recently released, web-site postings, and the significance of the two eclipeses that occur during the current Ramadan, I would not be surprised if a major attack is imminent. And I still think last summer's blackout was a smoke screen of some sort, either a test run of something bigger to come or a diversion to give operatives the oppurtunity to enter the country. Perhaps the attack will be twarted and we will never learn about it. Or perhaps it will be small and seem insignificant compared to 09.11. And maybe it will be the big one -- a dirty bomb and/or bio/chem attack or a series of conventional explosions that go off simultaneously in crowded places in major cities around the country. I note that an earlier post linked to Yahoo that was pulled in a matter of minutes referred to the east side of Manhattan, which would include Grand Central Station, the Citicorp Tower, and the UN. I'm not trying to be an alarmist, but I do think we need to keep our guard up.
I think you're right to take this stuff seriously. At some point one must stop believing that someone or some group that constantly threatens you really means it, especially when there's past evidence to back it up.
I look at it this way...
If one Saturday morning you wake up to find your crazy paranoid neighbor standing on his front porch screaming "I'm going to get you Mitch!" you might safely brush it off as simple deranged bluster. But what about the next week when he's standing on his front lawn yelling "Okay Mitch, your time is coming!" Well, probably just had too much to drink again this morning.
The following week he's at the base of your driveway demanding you vacate the neighborhood or "stuffs gonna happen!" You still dismiss him as a simple nut. Well, what about next week when a rock comes through your window? Or the week following when a burning turd shows up on your doorstep? Are you going to take him seriously then or wait until the smoke detector goes off in the middle of the night? What if you can't get out of the burning house? Will you regret not taking the lunatic more seriously sooner?
I would have thought that 9/11 would have woken people up to realize that sometimes you must act against the simple threat instead of waiting for the actual incident to occur. Some, and in fact many here, seem to get that. I'm not sure the majority of folks do.
I continue to be concerned that in labelling so many of these "warnings" as the boy crying wolf we'll miss the warning that actually we should have caught and paid attention to. Natch, I hope I'm dead wrong, but this dual eclipse thing during Ramadan does unsettle me a little. These nutjobs do seem to enjoy their symbolism and Islam is rife with it, it seems.
First we had our black out, then the Brittish had a big black out, then Italy and 3 peple died from that one.