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2009-09-11 Home Front: WoT

Coast Guard fires on suspicious boat in the Potomac

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Posted by Fred 2009-09-11 10:14|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top

#1 Training event??? good story. Either an Accidental Discharge by a jumpy coastie, or a real event. I dont believe there is a live fire range near the 14th street bridge...

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-09-11 11:00|| 2009-09-11 11:00|| Front Page Top

#2 be a good day for a low-level flyover in NYC by Air Force One, no?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-09-11 11:14|| 2009-09-11 11:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Terrorism expert who predicted 9/11 says another bigger attack is coming.

Daniel J. Hill converted to Islam as a young U.S. Army paratrooper stationed in Beirut in 1958. It was Hill who learned fluent Arabic. It was Hill who joined the Mujahedeen Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan and fought the Soviet invasion there in the 1980s. It was Hill who personally met Osama bin Laden. It was Hill who used information from Islamic extremists to warn Rescorla that terrorists would use the underground parking garage for a car bomb attack on the World Trade Center. It was Hill who asked the U.S. government to assist him in an assassination attempt on bin Laden in 1998 (the request was rejected). And it was Hill who warned the FBI just weeks before Sept. 11, 2001, that his Mideast contacts told him "something big" was about to happen in the United States, in New York, Washington, D.C., or Philadelphia maybe all three.

He didn't want to talk about the past. He wanted to talk about the future. The very near future.
The man who predicted 9/11 is worried that its sequel is imminent.

"Muslims that I talk to say things like, 'America thinks they're safe now. They've forgotten about 9/11. But watch, Daniel. Stay near your TV. It's going to be bigger than 9/11,' " he said.

Hill said the next terrorist attack will involve suitcase nuclear bombs that will be detonated in small, low-flying two-seater private airplanes.

He is not alone in suggesting such a scenario. A 2007 book, "The Day of Islam," spells out the details, as do any number of Internet sites about a plot called "American Hiroshima."

The nukes, he said, will be detonated over New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Miami, Houston, Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

"Ramadan started two weeks ago Saturday," he said, referring to the Muslim holy month of fasting. "It always hits around Ramadan."

Posted by Frozen Al 2009-09-11 11:26|| 2009-09-11 11:26|| Front Page Top

#4 "Muslims that I talk to say things like, 'America thinks they're safe now. They've forgotten about 9/11. But watch, Daniel. Stay near your TV. It's going to be bigger than 9/11,' " he said..... "It always hits around Ramadan."

Sounds like hysteria...I've been waiting since 2002. I'll just stay in the now and be alert.

Posted by Tyranysaurus Huperesing1230 2009-09-11 11:35|| 2009-09-11 11:35|| Front Page Top

#5 Somehow I just have a hard time believing that extremists have suitcase nukes in their possession. It would be much easier to transport a few full-size nukes in the back of a Ryder truck.

Posted by gorb 2009-09-11 11:48|| 2009-09-11 11:48|| Front Page Top

#6 I dont believe there is a live fire range near the 14th street bridge...

Have you ever been to D.C.?

Posted by Beavis 2009-09-11 12:04|| 2009-09-11 12:04|| Front Page Top

#7 ...USCG says that there was NO weapons discharge - apparently a local news organization was monitoring the USCG channels and heard PART of an exercise message involving gunfire.

Ya know, I can believe it.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2009-09-11 12:24|| 2009-09-11 12:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Mike, now that sounds more like the truth. Thx.

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-09-11 12:36|| 2009-09-11 12:36|| Front Page Top

#9 I am still astounded when I think of the MARINA about 2 miles from the capitol building, accessible from Chesapeake Bay and the ocean. Who cares about suitcase nukes or a measly Ryder truck? I sure hope the Coast Guard is ready for any infiltration attempts by sea to that vulnerable point.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-09-11 12:58|| 2009-09-11 12:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Can the Jihadis target San Francisco?

Posted by Rob06 2009-09-11 13:35|| 2009-09-11 13:35|| Front Page Top

#11 why would they target their strongest allies?

Posted by abu do you love ">abu do you love 2009-09-11 13:51|| 2009-09-11 13:51|| Front Page Top

#12 This may be redirection - focusing on one type of event in one set of cities, when a different type of event happens elsewhere. I hope the Muslims aren't stupid enough to pull something like this. Even "President" Obumble won't be able to keep the US from slagging a dozen countries in the Muddled East.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-09-11 18:41|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-09-11 18:41|| Front Page Top

#13 No way obama would respond nuclear - unless they get him too.

Posted by Hellfish 2009-09-11 20:57|| 2009-09-11 20:57|| Front Page Top

#14 The MILITS-TERRS need the strategic NUC, WMD KNOWLEDGE-TECHS TRANSFER before risking full-sclae terror inside the USA - until then, they ned to be highly selective in using what scarce WMD tacdevices they have [ e.g. MSM-NET > those 100-or-so "suitcase" nukes repor missing since the 1990's].

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-09-11 21:21|| na]">[na] 2009-09-11 21:21|| Front Page Top

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