"Gimme ten-thousand on al-Quada..."
Posted on 06/05/2007 2:12:24 PM PDT by ovrtaxt
9/11 was 8 years after the first WTC bombing.
DO NOT underestimate the patience of Al Qaeda. Dirtheadsama’s favorite recitation reportedly is “Out/overpatience patience itself” and is recited daily in AQ training/prayers.
It is very, very reasonable to assume by 2010 they will be ready.
9-11 was some special date in history for the mooselimbs.
From what i hear all important things to them are in regards historical.
Thus they await some date with special meaning to them.
When that date comes and they launch their efforts they will explain.
Pretty stupid but then hey if you lived in the eighth century?
Look, I’m sorry, but I can’t get that all excited about this supposed worse case scenario. First of all the writer states that the Implosion device is the most sophisticated of all devices. He is assuming that the nanosecond timing can be achieved by these muzzies. Hell Korea couldn’t do better than a “fizzle”.
Another thing. . .48 devices in this country?! That sounds like hyperbole to jack up sales for this book. This all sounds like a wild wet dream on the part of the author.
Just how big does anyone thing that a 20 Kiloton bomb would be?? Any guesses? Sure we have warheads that will fit in the back of a truck, but it is not an easy thing to set of one of our warheads. Korea’s warhead was about the size of a 18wheeler trailer. I sincerely doubt that 48 nuclear bombs and all of the accompanying support personnel and resources could be hidden too long.
On a BS meter; I give this a 7. There may be some discussing and wishing similar to the JFK fuel demolition, but actual threat of 48 bombs here and this country in imminent danger; 70 8 on the CS scale out of a possible 10.
This sounds more like the network nightly news where you don’t see a story unless it is designed to frighten you and you are told that there is a crisis.
“short people got, no reason to, no reason...” Let’s all sing along.
Ahem, Jack Bauer is a TV character.
As for our current Department of Homeland Security , I wouldn't depend on them to find their own a** with both hands!!!
If you blow up this country with nukes, who is going to be around to give the order against whom???
U-238 is depleted uranium. We use that stuff in tank and other ammunition when you really want to punch through armor. U-235 is enriched uranium you use to fuel reactors and make bombs. If the author doesn't know the difference, then he probably has no idea about anything else he's writing about.
NOT! It's uranium oxide, U3O8, not uranium metal, and that's a Good Thing. A step or three farther from UF6 which is what is generally used during the enrichment process.
“our troops found in a cave outside of Khandahar in Afghanistan a canister filled with Uranium 238 [the basic ingredient for a nuclear bomb]”
Uranium 238 is not the basic ingredient for a nuclear bomb. U238 is generally called ‘depleted Uranium’ because the fissionable U235 has been removed.
If a couple of nukes went off in the U.S., I suspect our response would be much larger than that. Our nuclear subs could take out every major city in all Islamic countries while leaving plenty in reserve in case the Chinese or Russians take exception to our actions.
I know it is unwise to underestimate your enemies but the logistical problems of placing and maintaining 48 nukes in the U.S. without detection would be mind boggling. This doesn't pass the smell test.
11 Sept 1683 is the date that Islam’s 2nd Jihad against the Europe was defeated.
11 Sept 2001 is the date that the Islam’s 3rd Jihad became manifest
10 KT would not destroy all of Israel. Blast radius for a ground level 10 KT explosion is about 1/3 mile of total destruction, 3/4 mile for major structural damage and 1 mile for major fires. 10KT is smaller than either the Hiroshima (15 KT) or Nagsaki bombs(21 KT), both of those were airbursts, which give a larger blast radious, and less secondary radiation effects too. The distances for various amounts of overpressure for a 10KT ground burst are:
15 psi: 0.71 miles
5 psi: 1.3 miles
2 psi: 2.28 miles
1 psi: 3.37 miles
0.25 psi: 8.63 miles
0.1 psi: 17.68 miles
(Information from HYDESim (Map for Lower Manhattan, which would indeed be wiped out by a 10 KT ground burst.
A group like A-Q does not have the assets to protect something like a nuke, compared to what Korea has, or the US. They also don’t have good access to “national technical means” so that they really can’t be sure of how well the operation is hidden.
If they had a well-defended bunker with good security inside and out, it would be pretty visible in a number of ways. Taking it out would also be visible and hard for a nation to deny.
If they have it stashed in an old warehouse on the edge of town with a lookout up the street, it’s pretty vulnerable and it could be taken down without a lot of fuss for a country, and fairly easy to deny.
Funny, that doesn't look like a misspelling of "World Net Daily".
We do not worship Iran, we worship Allah. For patriotism is another name for paganism. I say let this land [Iran] burn. I say let this land go up in smoke, provided Islam emerges triumphant in the rest of the world.
- Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Khomeini, Holy City of Qom 1980
After decades of struggle the Palestinians are convinced that they have finally discovered Israel's Achilles' heel. Ismail Haniya, another Hamas leader, was quoted in March of last year in The Washington Post as saying that Jews "love life more than any other people, and they prefer not to die." In contrast, suicide terrorists are often said to have gone to their deaths smiling. An Israeli policeman told me, "A suicide bomber goes on a bus and finds himself face-to-face with victims and he smiles and he activates the bomb—but we learned that only by asking people afterwards who survived." This is what is known in the Shia Islamic tradition as the bassamat al-farah, or "smile of joy"—prompted by one's impending martyrdom. It is just as prevalent among Sunni terrorists. (Indeed, the last will and testament of Mohammed Atta, the ringleader of the September 11 hijackers, and his "primer" for martyrs, The Sky Smiles, My Young Son, clearly evidence a belief in the joy of death.)
I created a thread related this topic earlier today
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845204/posts
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