Could have been worse....could have been this.
Posted on 08/29/2006 1:56:50 PM PDT by aculeus
Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir claims America's top spy agency was involved in the devastating 2002 Bali bombings.
Bashir, who was convicted and imprisoned for having prior knowledge of the attacks which killed 202 people, including 88 Australians, is also appealing for the lives of three convicted bombers to be spared.
Bashir, the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), was released from prison in June after serving nearly two years.
Amrozi, Ali Ghufron - also known as Mukhlas - and Imam Samudra are awaiting execution for their part in the plot.
In an interview tonight on ABC television's Foreign Correspondent, Bashir claims the device that killed most people in the Bali attack was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) "micro-nuclear" bomb.
"The micro-nuclear bomb that did so much damage was a CIA bomb, not Amrozi's bomb," Bashir told the ABC.
"The Bali bombing was actually masterminded by America. Well, not masterminded, but hijacked. They planned it, but their plan was hijacked by America."
"So the bomb that killed so many Australians, it was an American bomb. It wasn't the bomb made by Amrozi and his friends."
Bashir defended the Bali bombers, but conceded their actions may have been "misguided".
"Actually, they (the bombers) are not terrorists. America is the terrorist. They are not terrorists. They followed the path of jihad to defend Islam and Muslims. Perhaps their actions were misguided," Bashir said.
"Secondly, it was unfair of the court to sentence them to death because their bomb would not have killed people, only injured them. It was a CIA bomb that killed people."
Bashir also attacked the Australian government, saying it wrongly continued to hound him and treat him as an enemy.
He said Indonesia had placed no travel restrictions on him and he was free to go where he wanted.
"It's the Australian government that makes every effort to ensure I continue to be hounded. So in Indonesia there are no restrictions on me travelling overseas. I'm allowed to go anywhere I want to.
"But it would be impossible to go to Australia because if I went there I would be arrested and slandered by the Australian government. The Australian government still treats me like an enemy for reasons that are unclear. "
AAP
> Actually I am curious about just how small a nuke can be made.
About the smallest that has been demosntrated is on the order of 50 to 100 *tons* (not kilotons), with the Davy Crockett nuclear mortar round. However, these things were filthy as hell, and the yield is unreliable. Basically they are full-up bombs that are designed to not work very well.
I dont't think that's a bandage on his head. It's half of my wife's DD Bra.
Could have been worse....could have been this.
What do Ray Nagin, Jimmy Carter, Hugo Chavez, Bin Laden and John Mark Karr have in common?
Just think what he might say IF he had a living brain.
That's no micro-nuke, that's MINOR SCALE!
It did blow up real good, though. Just like MISTY PICTURE.
The Bomb was actually delivered by the p[lane that didnt fly into the Pentagon. The CIA had been hiding it and all the passengers for years out at section 51.
This idiot obviously knows nothing about nuclear physics.
Look up Davey Crockett. I think that was a W54.
He does not need to know physics. He shrieks the assertion, and all of his followers shriek along too- that's what counts, is the publicity.
Worldwide, people with no knowlege of physics are honing their hatred for us, with the help of the media.
Good eye. Posters are always asking me what that is from. Site here
http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/030528.htm
Not sure you have to do that. Idiots the world over will soon pick this up and rank it right up there with bombs placed at the WTC.
But Bashir, you were their guide.
I've been to ground zero in Bali. There is no evidence for a nuclear bomb, not even a "small" one. None of the surrounding areas were affected in the way a nuclear blast affects an area, nor are there victims of a nuclear fallout the way the people of Japan were affected. None. Not any. As in, this guy is looneytunes.
"The CIA put a chip in my brain!" - from the movie Dirty Work.
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/gmap/hydesim.html?ll=-73.9971,40.7223&yd=1&z=4
I think someone would notice a hole that big in any city.
Ray Nagin is a pedophile? ;-)
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