Has U.S. threatened to vaporize Mecca?

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to vaporize Mecca?

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Friday, January 7, 2005

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Has U.S. threatened
to vaporize Mecca?
Intelligence expert says nuke option is reason bin Laden has been quiet

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Posted: January 7, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern

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© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

Why hasn't Osama bin Laden's terror network executed an attack on U.S. soil since 9-11?

Simple, says Dr. Jack Wheeler, creator of an acclaimed intelligence website dubbed "the oasis for rational conservatives": The U.S. has threatened to nuke the Muslim holy city of Mecca should the terror leader strike America again.

On his website, To the Point, Wheeler explains how the Bush administration has identified the potential of wiping Mecca off the map as bin Laden's ultimate point of vulnerability – the Damoclean Sword hanging over his head.

"Israel … recognizes that the Aswan Dam is Egypt's Damoclean Sword," writes Wheeler. "There is no possibility whatever of Egypt's winning a war with Israel, for if Aswan is blown, all of inhabited Egypt is under 20 feet of water. Once the Israelis made this clear to the Egyptians, the possibility of any future Egyptian attack on Israel like that of 1948, 1967, and 1972 is gone."

Wheeler says talk of bin Laden's Damoclean Sword has infiltrated the Beltway.

Writes Wheeler in his members-only column: "There has been a rumor floating in the Washington ether for some time now that George Bush has figured out what Sword of Damocles is suspended over Osama bin Laden's head. It's whispered among Capitol Hill staffers on the intel and armed services committees; White House NSC (National Security Council) members clam up tight if you begin to hint at it; and State Department neo-cons love to give their liberal counterparts cardiac arrhythmia by elliptically conversing about it in their presence.

"The whispers and hints and ellipses are getting louder now because the rumor explains the inexplicable: Why hasn't there been a repeat of 9-11? How can it be that after this unimaginable tragedy and Osama's constant threats of another, we have gone over three years without a single terrorist attack on American soil?"

Available only to subscribers of To the Point, Wheeler ends his column by explaining the effectiveness of the Mecca threat.

"Completely obliterating the terrorists' holiest of holies, rendering what is for them the world's most sacred spot a radioactive hole in the ground is retribution of biblical proportions – and those are the only proportions that will do the job.

"Osama would have laughed off such a threat, given his view that Americans are wussies who cut and run after a few losses, such as Lebanon in 1983 and Somalia in 1993. Part of Bush's rationale for invading Afghanistan and Iraq – obviously never expressed publicly – was to convince Osama that his threat to nuke Mecca was real. Osama hates America just as much as ever, but he is laughing no more."

Wheeler says bin Laden is "playing poker with a Texas cowboy holding the nuclear aces," so there's nothing al-Qaida could do that could come remotely close to risking obliterating Mecca.

Writes Wheeler: "So far, Osama has decided not to see if GW is bluffing. Smart move."

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[Beckwith]

Nuking Mecca won't accomplish anything, except alienate almost all the Muslims in the world. But threatening Damascus, Khartoum or any other potential terrorist- harboring states is more practical. Even that Libyan leader is untrustworthy.

It removes one of the five pillars of islam.

No Mecca, no islam.

[ovrtaxt]

Nice pic. Scroll down my home page for a similar thought.

[Strategerist]

It's WingNutDaily, of course.

Basically every word from them regarding intelligence/defense matters is pure garbage.

And 99% of everything else, too.

Oh, for the day WingNutDaily tells FR that they will sue for copyright violations for any postings of WND stuff.....I think it will only remain a dream, though.

[blogbat]

"Libya came around like a lamb, and that's not fantasy land. A phone call from GW with plain talk or a diplomatic note handed over in private is not boots on the ground stuff we see on TV or read in the papers, but yields richer rewards."

Speaking of reading the paper, maybe you don't know what Lambi-pi has been doing back behind the trough:

http://www.xanga.com/item.aspx?user=Blogbat&tab=weblogs&uid=75972136

[dennisw]

It would be funny if every time GW reads someone howling for Mecca/Medina to be nuked, he chuckles to himself, we had that one covered from the get go.

[dennisw]

Boffo .... thnx for posting!

[Strategerist]

No Mecca, no islam.

You seriously think every Muslim would convert to Presbyterianism if Mecca was destroyed?

Destroying the Temple didn't exactly destroy Judaism.

Anyway, the whole original article is a sourcless masturbatory fantasy, so not like it matters.

[Bellflower]

Hey, look what we did to Japan. Our enemies will never forget it.

[blogbat]

"You seriously think every Muslim would convert to Presbyterianism if Mecca was destroyed?"


-Judging by Presbyterianism's recent anti-Israel positions taken, I think it stands a good chance...

[TomSmedley]

Times of crumbling paradigms are also windows of opportunity for the advance of Christianity. When Douglas Macarthur asked for 10,000 Christian missionaries to come to Japan in 1945, what he got was technocrats, like industrial engineer Edwards Deming. Today, Japan is one of the most materialistic countries on earth. We were somewhat better prepared after the fall of soviet communism. My church ( www.kpic.org ) planted several churches in Eastern Europe. What will we do when God discredits Islam? I want to be part of the answer to that question.

(I grew up under the shadow of "the bomb," and saw the "irresistable" soviet juggernaut collapse overnight. The apocalyptic crazies immediately started looking for other antichrists to cringe before, rather than thanking God for victories within history.)

[hershey]

We don't take anything off the table and make it clear (privately), that Mecca is on top as the target of choice. Then we dismantle the Middle East, country by country, chomp, chomp, chomp -- and if you don't think that's what we're up to, you're dreaming. The Middle East must be brought into the modern world, kicking and screaming, or docile as a Libyan lamb. (And that last didn't happen by accident.) So we establish Iraq and Afghanistan as democracies. We don't give them an alternative. All this is predicated on the Arab world and everybody else believing GW will do what he says, and so far, like it or not, GW has been a man of his word.

[dennisw]

Dire nuclear threats are actually what Mohammedans respond to best. Credible threats, intimidation and terror have been favorite Muzzie tactics down through the centuries. They make conquest much easier by making the foe surrender, beg for mercy. Thus you have the KKKoran advocating striking terror into the hearts of the by beheadings

[dennisw]

It removes one of the five pillars of Islam.

Hajj is one of the five pillars, not Mecca.

No Mecca, no Islam.

No Mecca, no Hajj, no Islam. No moon gawd Kabba rock to prostrate in the direction of.

[dennisw]

When we threaten Mecca this means we threaten Qom too. The Iranians would love to have a Chinese nuclear umbrella to defend against nuclear threats to their Shiite holy city, Qom. Which is well described in "Among the Believers"

[blogbat]

"No Mecca, no Hajj, no Islam."

Time to get crackin'

[Paul_Denton]

The #1 answer was that not only should we nuke mecca, but lace the bomb with pigs blood.

Awesome idea! Not just nukes. The military should lace ALL bombs (both nuclear and conventional) in pig blood. And tip each bullet with pig blood too.

[dennisw]

You're the wit of the day :)

[Paul_Denton]

.....wonder what the CEP would be if we aimed right at that big black square rock with a Trident II.....

Since muslims are not activly trying to counter an ICBM warhead with jamming or other countermeasures I am sure it would be spot on.

[ovrtaxt]

That's a great take on the big picture. Agreed!

[aculeus]

Interesting ... if true.

Also interesting if not true but OBL believes it.

Freepers, do your part!

Bump this sucker.