[StormEye]

"(AL QAEDA) Terrorist planned nuclear base raid "

Having served in the Air Force for four years and having seen some of the security around USAF nuke storage bunkers and uploaded nukes on alert aircraft, al Queda would never succede in this plan. Way too much security. Even Air Force personnel aren't allowed to be alone around nukes. NO ONE is trusted around nukes. As for crashing into a supposed nuke bunker --- well, these are hardened to withstand quite a bit of force. This is assuming one can find a bunker with nukes in the first place.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

This is making me wonder if the target that this guy's handlers TOLD him he was going to take out was the REAL target they were planning to take out. I seem to recall that there were some shreds of evidence to suspect that not all of the terrorists on the four planes back on 9/11 actually knew that this was to be a suicide mission. I could see them telling this guy that he was going to blow up a bunker containing nukes because that might be more motivating, and thus assure that he would follow through, than if he knew that the actual target was a bit more mundane.

It may very well be AlQaida SOP for nobody in a cell to know the true assignment until just prior to activation, and then perhaps only one person in the cell knows the true assignment and all the other cell members are given a different story.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Having served in the Air Force for four years

I spent ten years in - all of it at Nellis AFB. Long ago, Area II used to be called "Lake Mead Base," and at one time, the local paper carried an article about how it was a nuclear weapons storage facility. When the 474th Tactical Fighter Wing was still active and at Nellis, Area II was listed (in the public domain) as the largest nuclear weapons storage facility in the west.

You're not kidding about the security around nuclear weapons. Would have been interesting to see anyone try to get to them at Nellis.

[TexKat]

How did he know the location? Where did he get his info?