Al-Qaeda Supporters Threaten Nuclear Attacks

International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism ^ | 1/10/02 | Reuven Paz

[Angelus Errare]

This may well refer to all of that "chatter" we've been hearing about recently.

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[Bikers4Bush]

And if they do we should start by nuking mecca and work our way onward from there.

[Angelus Errare]

Ping

[Highest Authority]

Mecca, Medina, Baghdad, and Damascus may soon glow in the dark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dog]

Thanks.....hmmmmmm.

[Dog]

fyi

[swarthyguy]

What about the missing Ricin in England.....

[Fudd]

"...by the arms of the uprising youngsters, who while riding their horses, never step down but victorious or martyrs. In both cases this is their victory..."

Of course, we are hoping that theirs is the latter form of 'victory'. I'm sure our military would just love to help them to that form of victory.

[blam]

I think from day one we have all assumed that they would kill us in any way they could, even nukes if they had them.

[Sender]

What do you think we would do if al Qaeda did light off a nuke? We can't exactly pin the blame on any one city or country and I doubt seriously if nuking Mecca is an option, even if it did make sense. GWB wouldn't stand for doing nothing, and yet we couldn't just lash out at the innocent. I'm sure that great minds are thinking about this very question right now.

[11B3]

Should they in fact light off a nuke, your assumptions regarding 'innocents' in the Islamic world are incorrect. All would be considered combatants.

[etcetera]

"What do you think we would do if al Qaeda did light off a nuke?"

We'd continue with our invasion of Iraq but with one big change - no more coalitions or U.N. resolutions. No more asking permission. Any preceived enemy would be fair game. Get them, get them all, and damn the critics.

[blam]

"What do you think we would do if al Qaeda did light off a nuke? "

If they had one, they'd have already used it. They are scrambling to put together a 'dirty' bomb.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

When it comes to bacterial warfare they seem to have forgotten the rule "What goes around comes around."

[Angelus Errare]

I'm not quite so certain that they don't have the ability to obtain at least one nuke thanks to their ties with the ISI, but I think that even the nutcases in Pakistani intelligence aren't crazy enough to turn one over to them until they can guarantee a 100% chance of detonation. If the nuke was intercepted en route and then traced back to Pakistan, there'd be hell to pay.

A far more terrifying scenario, IMO, concerns either the use of rockets to shoot down US passenger jetliners or the use of chemical weapons through crop dusters to kill hundreds of people.

We should also distinguish between them having the weapon and being able to deliver it here.

[RightWhale]

What do you think we would do if al Qaeda did light off a nuke?

A dirty bomb is not a nuke.

[Imal]

I'm sure that great minds are thinking about this very question right now.

I wouldn't be surprised if the name "Keyser Soze" has popped up more than once in these discussions.

A catastrophic attack against the U.S. allows us to take the gloves off. And, lest we forget, the destruction of the WTC was a catastrophic attack. We've had some public inklings of what Bush is authorizing, including indefinite detention without charge, "dirty" intelligence methods and assassination without trial. And that's just the public stuff! You can rest assured the top secret stuff is far more colorful and creative.

Al Qaeda may or may not understand just how nasty the U.S. can get when the chips are down. On the one hand, they seem to think we're the Devil incarnate, yet on the other hand they carry on like we're nothing more than a bunch of wimpy Caspar Milquetoasts who couldn't hurt a fly. This bizarre ambiguity on their part suggests they really don't know who they're fighting. And that obviously isn't going well for them.

So far, it doesn't look like we've adopted a policy of torturing the families of Al Qaeda members to death in retaliation for terrorist attacks or "disappearing" anyone who publicly or privately supports Al Qaeda, whether materially or merely in principle. But if AQ ups the ante by killing tens or hundreds of thousands more Americans, our bullets will get bigger, our aim looser and our trigger fingers twitchier.

Allah help them if that happens, because no one else in Heaven, Hell or on Earth will be able to.

[Imal]

It says a lot about the quality of science education the public has had. Truly sad.

As long as we leave that education in the government's palsied hands, it will only get worse.