Reply Fri 7 Jan, 2005 04:39 pm
Something I've long suspected...


http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42272

Has U.S. threatened to vaporize Mecca?
Intelligence expert says nuke option is reason bin Laden has been quiet

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Why hasn't Osama bin Laden's terror network executed an attack on U.S. soil since 9-11?

Simple, says Dr. Jack Wheeler, creator of an acclaimed intelligence website dubbed "the oasis for rational conservatives": The U.S. has threatened to nuke the Muslim holy city of Mecca should the terror leader strike America again.

On his website, To the Point, Wheeler explains how the Bush administration has identified the potential of wiping Mecca off the map as bin Laden's ultimate point of vulnerability - the Damoclean Sword hanging over his head.

"Israel … recognizes that the Aswan Dam is Egypt's Damoclean Sword," writes Wheeler. "There is no possibility whatever of Egypt's winning a war with Israel, for if Aswan is blown, all of inhabited Egypt is under 20 feet of water. Once the Israelis made this clear to the Egyptians, the possibility of any future Egyptian attack on Israel like that of 1948, 1967, and 1972 is gone."

Wheeler says talk of bin Laden's Damoclean Sword has infiltrated the Beltway.

Writes Wheeler in his members-only column: "There has been a rumor floating in the Washington ether for some time now that George Bush has figured out what Sword of Damocles is suspended over Osama bin Laden's head. It's whispered among Capitol Hill staffers on the intel and armed services committees; White House NSC (National Security Council) members clam up tight if you begin to hint at it; and State Department neo-cons love to give their liberal counterparts cardiac arrhythmia by elliptically conversing about it in their presence.

"The whispers and hints and ellipses are getting louder now because the rumor explains the inexplicable: Why hasn't there been a repeat of 9-11? How can it be that after this unimaginable tragedy and Osama's constant threats of another, we have gone over three years without a single terrorist attack on American soil?"

Available only to subscribers of To the Point, Wheeler ends his column by explaining the effectiveness of the Mecca threat.

"Completely obliterating the terrorists' holiest of holies, rendering what is for them the world's most sacred spot a radioactive hole in the ground is retribution of biblical proportions - and those are the only proportions that will do the job.

"Osama would have laughed off such a threat, given his view that Americans are wussies who cut and run after a few losses, such as Lebanon in 1983 and Somalia in 1993. Part of Bush's rationale for invading Afghanistan and Iraq - obviously never expressed publicly - was to convince Osama that his threat to nuke Mecca was real. Osama hates America just as much as ever, but he is laughing no more."

Wheeler says bin Laden is "playing poker with a Texas cowboy holding the nuclear aces," so there's nothing al-Qaida could do that could come remotely close to risking obliterating Mecca.

Writes Wheeler: "So far, Osama has decided not to see if GW is bluffing. Smart move."
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gungasnake
 
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Reply Fri 7 Jan, 2005 04:51 pm
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"Osama would have laughed off such a threat, given his view that Americans are wussies who cut and run after a few losses, such as Lebanon in 1983 and Somalia in 1993. Part of Bush's rationale for invading Afghanistan and Iraq - obviously never expressed publicly - was to convince Osama that his threat to nuke Mecca was real. Osama hates America just as much as ever, but he is laughing no more."


It seems likely that some of the liberals crying over the operation in Iraq might easily be dead but for the operation in Iraq. Something to think about.
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Joe Republican
 
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Reply Fri 7 Jan, 2005 05:07 pm
gungasnake wrote:
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"Osama would have laughed off such a threat, given his view that Americans are wussies who cut and run after a few losses, such as Lebanon in 1983 and Somalia in 1993. Part of Bush's rationale for invading Afghanistan and Iraq - obviously never expressed publicly - was to convince Osama that his threat to nuke Mecca was real. Osama hates America just as much as ever, but he is laughing no more."


It seems likely that some of the liberals crying over the operation in Iraq might easily be dead but for the operation in Iraq. Something to think about.



Yep, we'll nuke Mecca gunga
Rolling Eyes


This is one of the lamest arguments I've seen. Osama is a-scared of us. Dude this is absolutely absurd.
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gungasnake
 
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Reply Fri 7 Jan, 2005 06:17 pm
Basically, I can't think of another reason why nothing else like 9-11 has happened over the last three years. I mean, it's not like we have borders or anything like that anymore...
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blueveinedthrobber
 
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Reply Fri 7 Jan, 2005 06:22 pm
you just like thinking about the possibility right? Makes you hard doesn't it? It's okay to admit it...we all know you....we accept you... Laughing
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neue regel
 
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Reply Fri 7 Jan, 2005 11:30 pm
In 1991, according to a good friend in the Gulf, it was understood that if Saddam had pulled out his chemical weapons, we would withdraw from the region and flatten Iraq.

Maybe Bush's 'madman' image is working in our favor.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sat 8 Jan, 2005 12:01 am
how many pissed off Muslims worldwide would that option create? jusst curious.
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tommrr
 
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Reply Sat 8 Jan, 2005 01:59 am
Oh probably just a few million, but they might think twice about messing with us, because, we do have a lot of those type of bombs.
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McTag
 
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Reply Sat 8 Jan, 2005 02:45 am
America would never dream of nuking Mecca because that would kill many innocent people and be very destructive.
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gungasnake
 
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Reply Sat 8 Jan, 2005 08:14 am
farmerman wrote:
how many pissed off Muslims worldwide would that option create? jusst curious.


Pissed off former muslims would be more like it. How's anybody gonna be a muslim with Mecca missing?
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cavfancier
 
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Reply Sat 8 Jan, 2005 08:19 am
Just when I thought Art Bell's Coast to Coast was the most entertaining thing around....
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sat 8 Jan, 2005 08:47 am
The ka' aba is a symbol, sort of like the wailing wall or the vatican, . As Yamamoto said
"All you would do is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve"

Islam is not a peaceful religion in its foundation stories. Nuking one of their principal symbols is about as stupid an idea that youve connected with snake.(Im aware that you didnt think of it yourself, but with this administration, whatever you can imagine , can come to be) Try not to overtax your imagination.
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blueveinedthrobber
 
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Reply Sat 8 Jan, 2005 08:48 am
farmerman wrote:
The ka is a symbol, sort of like the wailing wall or the vatican, . As Yamamoto said
"All you would do is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve"

Islam is not a peaceful religion in its foundation stories. Nuking one of their principal symbols is about as stupid an idea that youve connected with snake.(Im aware that you didnt think of it yourself, but with this administration, whatever you can imagine , can come to be) Try not to overtax your imagination.


How do you distinguish the ideas?
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sat 8 Jan, 2005 09:34 am
Im not ssure I catch your question bear.
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blueveinedthrobber
 
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Reply Sat 8 Jan, 2005 09:47 am
gungasnake wrote:
farmerman wrote:
how many pissed off Muslims worldwide would that option create? jusst curious.


Pissed off former muslims would be more like it. How's anybody gonna be a muslim with Mecca missing?


oh yeah great idea...because we all know how destroying their centers of worship have worked on the jews and christians...broke 'em right up...never heard from again....
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sat 8 Jan, 2005 10:00 am
I think your being hard on the b oy here Beaar. Snake is posing this as an intellectual exercise, one more worthy of careful consideration


















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blatham
 
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Reply Sat 8 Jan, 2005 10:24 am
Doncha just love that "acclaimed intelligence website dubbed 'the oasis for rational conservatives'". Particular in light of our thread thesis.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sat 8 Jan, 2005 11:07 am
so which faction of conservative is at the switch?
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blatham
 
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Reply Sat 8 Jan, 2005 12:53 pm
Verrrrry hard to say. But they're really acclaimed.
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farmerman
 
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Reply Sat 8 Jan, 2005 05:40 pm
found out that the ka aba has been destroyed at leaast 3 times , and the central rock, ameteorite or a pice of dolerite , has been busted up into chunks and held together. even if it were melted by a nuke, the ssite would still be holy and would be making Muslims duty bound, except, this time, theyd have an additional legend for which to seek justice.
Your belief in the reasoning for the laack of activity from bin laden demonstrates gullibility . AS long as his organization is around, hes a danger. Alienating ALL muslims by such an act would be something brain dead that maybe Bush is capable of considering but hopeefully someone in his cabinet will think it through. Alsso, maybe the author of that piece is just a howling lunatic
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