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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[MEGoody]

"Or is that why we went into Iraq in the first place?"

No.

[Atlantic Friend]

"Kill the core symbols of Islam and the disease dies."

Sorry, but I don't think it's that easy to kill a religion.

[Alex Marko]

sure, i would probable threaten the same thing...however, carrying it out would be unrealistic.

[USF]

LOL... This would certainly smack the Koranimals delusional belief system out from under them.

;o)

[Wallace T.]

Your statement is true respective to the medieval persecution of Jews by the nations of Western Europe, which often was supported or at least condoned by church leaders. However, the 20th Century persecution of Jews was conducted by the Nazis, whose leadership was neo-pagan and occultist, and opposed to traditional Christianity. Numerous Christian clergy and active lay people were persecuted or executed under Hitler's regime, for example, Corrie ten Boom and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, not to mention thousands of Polish Catholic priests and nuns.

[tarheelswamprat]

Islam is not a spiritual religion, it is very physical...and It would break the back of Islam. You would have a few diehard crazies staying on the path of jihad but most Muslims the world over would simply abandon the religion. It is far too dependent on the symbols and appearance of power to survive humiliation....

An astute observation, which is borne out by the fact that one of the most frequently claimed grievance made by Muslims against whoever for whatever is that they have been "humiliated", and by their long historical record of rabid intolerance of the buildings, symbols, etc. of other religions in territory they control. No other major religion comes close to Islam in its efforts to actually destroy the symbols of other faiths, whether by destroying priceless Buddhist art or by leveling churches and synagogues and building mosques on top of them (to demonstrate their superiority).

[bozot]

No Mecca, no islam.

Are you sure? Do you think if someone manage to nuke Washington the US would cease to exist?

I think rather the opposite.

I am sure that if Mecca got attacked, even the moderate muslims (as the 90 percent of them are) would turn against the attacker.

Think of Pakistan with their nukes... You really want to count them as enemies? Musharraf already facing an assasination attempt per month for being friendly to the US...

Or think of the saudis... they are already on the brink of a civil war for their oppressing regime...

Then after nuking Mecca... where the oil would come from?

[dennisw]

Here's what drives the Paleostinians Muslims nuts. Many of the West Bank settlements are built on hills. The Arabs are in the valleys where there is more precipitation, dew and moisture for crops and forage. The Jews on the hills sink deep wells to survive.

The fact that Jews look down on them makes them go crazy. Jews are always supposed to be below Muslims in all ways. In Jerusalem the Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa mosque look down on the Jews praying at the Western (Wailing) Wall. This suits the Muzzies just fine, so fine they rain rocks down on the praying Jews every few years.

[DTogo]

Just the title of this thread makes me smile... :)

[oh8eleven]

Excellent response.

[hope]

"I'm not trying to be confrontational, but give me a rational explanation for how you think this would have a lasting positive outcome".

Say that Osama sent some of his henchmen to set off a suitcase or a dirty bomb and a million or so die...What do you think the American's would call for to retaliate?

Frankly, I don't think it would take a small measure of that many lives for America to want to resort to such actions.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Was attempting humor there. That's what the following Hmmmmm was for.

[FreedomCalls]

I say nuke it now as payback for 20+ years of terrorism against Americans.

Make that 50. And not just Americans.

http://lindasog.com/public/terrorvictims.htm

[xzins]

A commendable but not terribly likely idea.

If you vaporize Mecca, wouldn't that pretty much say that Islam is ~misguided!?~

[af_vet_1981]

I support the utter destruction of Mecca as the retaliation for an Islamic terrorist WMD attack against the United States.

[knuthom]

I think that nuking Mecca SHOULD be an option, but I doubt that it is considered as such by this or any administration. The Muslims can blow up Buddahs and churches, but we try to avoid damaging their mosques.

[BayouCoyote]

HEY!
You forgot to put "fragging your fellow soldier's".

~~~Man...your slipping.

[thoughtomator]

You're only 1400 years too late. While you're catching up, can you identify one of these alleged "moderate Muslims" for us?

[ariamne]

You mean there are muslims left in the world to alienate?