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I dont doubt the possibility of these suitcase nukes being purchased by Muslim extremists but if they were in the United States then they would've already been detonated or discovered.......why would these Extremists wait for the Taliban to fall or for U.S. intelligence to shake down the Muslim community before using them?

No...

...they are not in the United States.

PLEASE tell me you're right, to wit: the nukes are NOT in the USA. I hope you are right. When I read my husband the lead article in this thread, he said the same thing you did. He's always contended that they used up all their weaponry on 911, and that there'll be NO further terrorist attacks on American soil for a very very very long time, if ever.

I thought I recognized the name of this muslim, and I did.

This sheik is a world renown Sufi, and his books are numerous and extremely intellectual and scholarly. Here's one page of his book titles at Amazon:

Books by HISSAM KABBANI

Perhaps they don't want to destroy the US, but to convert it to Islam. Maybe they want to keep the nukes undetonated as a bargaining chip in the war that they must have known they would start by the attacks on 9-11. Could it be that they are just waiting to see how things will work out in this conflict? They may be using the fact that there is no official "Islamic United Empire" to their advantage, as the US doesn't even have a country to declare war against officially. Keep in mind that this enemy is using our own power against us, time and again.

They are a mostly united force, but not a sovereign nation. The question is: Is our love for freedom more powerful than their religious zeal?

I dont doubt the possibility of these suitcase nukes being purchased by Muslim extremists but if they were in the United States then they would've already been detonated or discovered.......why would these Extremists wait for the Taliban to fall or for U.S. intelligence to shake down the Muslim community before using them?

Why haven't they already been used? I can think of at least four reasons why they would be waiting to use them -- all four may be coming up within the next 10 days!

1. They are waiting for the announcement that OBL has been killed. This could happen at any minute. His death will be the signal to unleash the ultimate wave of vengeance.

2. They are waiting for the day before Thanksgiving (11/21). This is always the peak day for air travel in the US. Terminals are at their most crowded. A guy hauling what looks like an ordinary trunk on a luggage cart into the terminal and toward the airline ticketing desks would arouse zero suspicion. Once inside, BOOM! They wouldn't need to worry about going through the x-ray machines, the point isn't to blow up a plane but to blow up the terminal. In addition to killing lots of people, taking out a few carefully selected terminals could paralyze air traffic in the US for a long time. If they take out Reagan National, Dulles, and Baltimore/Washington, they stand a good chance of taking out significant numbers of important government personnel as well.

3. They are waiting for the day after Thanksgiving (11/23). This is always the peak day for retail sales. The malls are packed, and would be attractive targets of opportunity. It would not be necessary to haul in the device, just drive right up to the busiest entrance and set it off. The blast radius will still take out the entire mall building, plus much of the surrounding area. In some locations they can probably also target in a manner that would enable them to take out some nearby major highway overpasses as well. Need I also mention the impact that such a disaster would also have on the US economy?

4. They are waiting for 11/29, the anniversary of the UN resolution partitioning Palestine and providing the legal basis for the creation of an independent Israel. OBL has already issued a statement referring to this, condemning the UN, and warning all Arabs to "get out of the UN." If the police block off the streets so that they can't drive up to the UN building, they could just get in a boat and float down the East River until they are alongside the UN building to detonate. Or they could fly a small plane at low altitude and detonate near the UN complex. The blast radius might even be sufficient to take out the UN complex if they were on the opposite bank of the river directly across from the UN.

I dont doubt the possibility of these suitcase nukes being purchased by Muslim extremists but if they were in the United States then they would've already been detonated or discovered.......why would these Extremists wait for the Taliban to fall or for U.S. intelligence to shake down the Muslim community before using them?
No...

...they are not in the United States.

Naughty.. Naughty.. You are superimposing Western thinking and logic onto a Mid Eastern terrorist organization. No. They will maintain operational security. If they have been planning such a terrorist attack (and there is every reason to believe that they are) they will wait until the predetermined time. They will not give in to the temptation to strike ahead of schedule.