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2004-05-09 Terror Networks

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-05-09 10:12:14 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Therefore our enlightened leaders continue to permit Wahabi terrorists to operate most mosques in the Free World. When stupidity prospers, none dare call it stupidity.

Posted by Man Bites Dog 2004-05-09 10:30:13 AM|| 2004-05-09 10:30:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm wonering if the reason there's been no RDD attcks yet is b'cause the jihadis start playing with the pretty glowing powder and...

It makes sense in light of all the problems associated with the red wire/ black wire thing.

"never ascribe to enemy action that which can be attributed to your own stupidity/ignorance."
-from many postings on .military.hist on usenet

Posted by N Guard 2004-05-09 10:41:25 AM|| 2004-05-09 10:41:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Damn no wonder socks are getting so expensive.

Posted by Shipman 2004-05-09 10:55:49 AM|| 2004-05-09 10:55:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 The threat of attack is great enough that a senior European intelligence official said it is "not a matter of if there is a nuclear-related attack by Al Qaeda, but when it occurs."

So long as Europe is still willing to support terror groups like the Palestinian Authority they will not comprehend their vulnerability.

Authorities believe that the tipoff was a warning but that the Chechens were not prepared to risk the retaliation likely to be provoked by detonating a dirty bomb.

Considering how the Soviets responded to a Palestinian kidnapping of their diplomats in 1985, the Chechens' hesitation to unleash a radiological device in Moscow seems rather well founded. Too bad American and Europe have yet to see the wisdom of devastating retaliation. Yes, it's harsh but I can foresee few other, if any, solutions to deterring Islamist terror.

Terrorist detonation of a radiological device should result in Medina or Mecca (or both) being dusted with quantities of the exact same isotope. Let Islam experience the joy of spending billions to decontaminate their precious shrines. At some point reciprocity in the form of retaliation-in-kind will have to appear on the table. I vote for sooner than later.

Posted by Zenster 2004-05-09 8:39:51 PM|| 2004-05-09 8:39:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Admiral Zenni, Vladimir's vicious and heavy-handed put-down of the "insurrection" in Chechnya hasn't been that successful and it certainly didn't stop the Islamists from taking 800 people hostage in a Moscow theatre + pulling off scores of other attacks.
The Al Queda-linked Chechen terrorists haven't pulled off a nuke attack, yet, but they've killed lots of Russians other ways, including offing the Chechen president today.

I *knew* you'd have to post on this thread!
The Bush Administration has people working 24/7 both at home and abroad to make sure there isn't an NBC attack here at home.
Short of putting a Super Patriot Act in place here and basically putting America under lockdown, which is neither constitutional nor practical, and adopting a preemptive nuke attack strategy abroad--as you keep screaming about--we're doing all that is humanly possible.
If we were to nuke Mecca to avoid a nuke attack here, we really would be as awful as our enemies suggest and they would surely hate us then and with excellent reason.
Iraq and Afghanistan are where we need to be, where our soldiers are taking on the Islamofascists there and not here in the streets of America.

Posted by Jen 2004-05-09 8:51:22 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-05-09 8:51:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 From "U.S. planning for Israeli strike at Iran":

I hope that the Israelis, in addition to preparing to take out Iranian facilities, are also quietly letting it be known that the first nuke aimed at Israel from anyone - source unimportant - gets a couple of nukes dropped squarely on Mecca. If they let it be known that screwing with them, nuclear-wise, gets your "holy" black rock vaporized, Allah willing or not, it would be interesting to see who still thinks nuking Israel is a good idea.
- Barbara Skolaut -

Barbara: I'd hope the USA would (quietly, privately and diplomatically, of course) adopt the same policy you recommended for Israel: should a smuggled or otherwise-delivered nuclear device ever be detonated on American soil, the 'holy shrines' of the cities of both Mecca and Medina immediately become very shiny and highly radioactive glass. Bummer for the following year's Hadj, though...
- BK -

Oops, I thought I was supposed to be the only misguided soul around here recommending retaliation-in-kind. Guess I'm not alone.

Posted by Zenster 2004-05-09 9:22:52 PM|| 2004-05-09 9:22:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Zippy, we've been over this before...at great length.

The problem is determining which rogue state is behind the bomb, if it occurs.
Zeroing in on Mecca & Medina regardless of which state is the sponsor just to punish Islam as a whole really isn't and shouldn't be much of an option to us.

Posted by Jen 2004-05-09 10:02:26 PM|| [http://www.greatestjeneration.com] 2004-05-09 10:02:26 PM|| Front Page Top