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hey laurus, while still interesting the legitimacy of some of those sites is questionable at best. Very interesting information though.
but if they had used a suitcase nuke as well, then the success would have been greater, from their point-of-view. imagine a plane crashing into one of the towers, then a suitcase nuke going off as well. instead of thousands, you just killed tens of thousands, at least, and you just made the middle of nyc a fallout zone...
How is that necessarily true? Wouldn't it be the highest priority of the group, seeing as it's essentially a trump card.i'm not suggesting they don't have the know-how necessarily, but after sitting on a nuke like that for six years there's a good chance that whoever knew how to use it is no longer around.
I don't think so, though it's obviously an option (especially if they can't get it into the heartland).if they use it to blow up a shipping container being loaded in, say, san diego port, it would devastate the nation's economy since san diego is the largest port of entry for goods coming in from asia. think about that for a second; one of the largest ports in the world being turned into radioactive rubble. and with the amount of containers that go thru that port every day, such a scenario would work far easier than trying to smuggle the nuke into the country another way. granted, blowing up a port isn't as dramatic as blowing up downtown houston or something, but the actual damage to the infrastructure of the country would be more devastating...
You'd think the same thing about makeshift explosive vests but here we are...i don't think a lot of people feel comfortable toting around a nuke...)
Agreed. Even after 9/11...The likelihood of me getting hit is so miniscule, no matter the incident.i think terrorism is something we need to worry about and deal with, but i was more scared as a kid growing up during the cold war.
You nailed it. You might not know what I mean, but you got it right there.i see 9/11 as the day america was forced to confront the ugliness that the rest of the world has had to deal with for a long tme.
You raise two very interesting points.the problem with al queada is that no one really knows just how big they really are. one day i read that we're dismantling them effectively, then the next there's a terrorist hiding behind my bushes with a suitcase nuke. let's be honest; we don't know if bin laden is even alive or dead right now. our intelligence gathering abilities in the middle east are not strong. not a lot of arabs working for u.s. intelligence. i'm just saying that it seems the media either hypes up or hypes down the threat of terrorists, depending on what the govt wants them to say. and that's another problem; the media being so much in league with the govt that most media outlets (fox, cnn) are little more than mouthpieces for whatever the govt wants to say. there's little to no meida investigations of these claims, just blind reporting, at least within the major media outlets.
Perhaps you're right. I'm not convinced either way. We could go one way or the other at this point...(i disagree that bush is working in the open on this. this is one of the most secretive admins in america's history.