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2003-11-13 Terror Networks

MEMRI: 100,000 Deaths Expected in Attack Against the U.S.

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Posted by Steve 2003-11-13 2:29:09 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yeah... whatever....

Promises... Promises...

Posted by CrazyFool 2003-11-13 2:39:00 PM|| 2003-11-13 2:39:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Paging General Ripper...

Posted by mojo 2003-11-13 2:40:27 PM|| 2003-11-13 2:40:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Bold claims but what Arab hasn't made them?

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-11-13 2:41:19 PM|| 2003-11-13 2:41:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 On Sunday they claimed the attack would happen on Monday. Guess the schedule slipped again.

Posted by Yank 2003-11-13 3:05:21 PM|| 2003-11-13 3:05:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Webmaster must have taken Ramadan off

Nah, he was shot dead by Saudi security forces a few months ago

Posted by Paul Moloney 2003-11-13 3:14:32 PM|| 2003-11-13 3:14:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Kill that many Americans and a couple of zeros get lopped off that 1.3 billion you keep bragging about, asshats.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2003-11-13 3:31:49 PM|| 2003-11-13 3:31:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 If we aren't hunting the webmasters down and giving them a bullet in the head, I hope we are at least monitoring every packet that hits their websites.

100k dead Americans really WOULD mean a peninsula made of glass.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-13 3:33:27 PM|| 2003-11-13 3:33:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 blah,blah,blah. I don't believe it, but I will guess this: if 100,000 Americans end up dead, an awful lot of sand will be turned to glass in short order I suspect

Posted by Mike 2003-11-13 3:43:44 PM|| 2003-11-13 3:43:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Agreed. live comments when we were hearing on the radio about 9/11 (and I'm not an american) were in the lines of "the third world war has began", "the USA are gonna bombs the arabs into oblivion", etc, etc... in an stunned/angry/scared way. Of course, the US response was proportionate, like it or not (a rational war).
If an attack was to cause 100 000 US death, not only would the entire world be on the brink (think 1929 crisis, only worse), but then the response would not be rationnal anymore, and US-haters everywhere would be horrified to see uncle Sam actually behave how they (safely) claim it behave. This would be apocalyptical, and that that's precisely what the islamonazis are wishing for, the apocalypse.
Still, this is pure, unshameful bragging (100 000 deaths : a nuke?), arab-style... which doesn't mean a big attack is planned.
I wonder if the planners in the WH have actually thought on what to do in such an event, how to react, which enney to target,...?

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-13 4:05:28 PM|| 2003-11-13 4:05:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Al Quida didn't brag before bombing the embassies or before 9/11. The fact they brag means a) these are not the same guys in charge (ie bin Laden is dead) and b) they cannot accomplish

BTW: Mullah Omar predicted the destruction of the USA; "real soon now". It was two years ago and counting.

Posted by JFM 2003-11-13 5:04:06 PM|| 2003-11-13 5:04:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Anonymous, the white house has plans to invade Antarctica if it comes to that. They update all the plans on a regular basis. I think you can be really certain that there are plans.

My own guess would be the US wouldn't use nukes, but there would be a massive increase in the tempo of the war on terror and the rearrangement of a lot of boundaries on the Map. House of Saud, dead! Assad of Syria, dead! Niedermeyer, Dead!

Posted by Yank 2003-11-13 5:56:46 PM|| 2003-11-13 5:56:46 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Yank---Do not forget Iranian Black ~~Turbines~~ Turbans spooled down. If this 100K thing happens, the Arabs will soon feel the combined fury of the US and Israel. The Paleos will be caught in the middle and will just be a grease spot on the L&N.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-11-13 6:29:12 PM|| 2003-11-13 6:29:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Are we sure this isn't a Rall or Chomsky article? Sure sounds like it.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-13 6:31:20 PM|| 2003-11-13 6:31:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Yank - If the US took a 100k strike and didn't use nukes on everybody we all know to be our enemies, I would go apeshit, and I don't think I'd be the only one.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2003-11-13 7:48:26 PM|| 2003-11-13 7:48:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 I'm with you Laurence.

But I like to think that the UK would launch even if we dithered.

Posted by Shipman 2003-11-13 7:57:15 PM|| 2003-11-13 7:57:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Even with 100.000 dead the US would be incapable of killing innocents with nukes. What I think you would see is:
1. A draft reimplemented to fill out the US military at 1,000,000
2. The factory that I work at (and many others) re-tooled from making Silverados into making Strikers.
3. Factories that produce ceramic plating blossum like dandelions in the spring.
4. A dramatic increase in Special Ops forces.
5. 100 % employment in the US
6. 15% of GNP focussed on Defense
7. A defening silence from the ACLU, Dixie Chicks and Dennis Kucinich for a decade or more.
8. A house to house extermination of jihadis by by shaved headed tatood vigilantes.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-11-13 8:35:34 PM|| 2003-11-13 8:35:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Once we'd traced the fissile material, I'm sure there would be a few craters created - likely on military targets - and the target nation told to surrender unconditionally or else. AND the gloves would come totally off on the rest of them. You don't want to see what we could generate in total war mode.

Posted by Nero 2003-11-13 8:53:42 PM|| 2003-11-13 8:53:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 9. me becoming a part of 1.

Posted by Rafael 2003-11-13 8:54:33 PM|| 2003-11-13 8:54:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Super Hose, you've got it only partially right, it becomes a zero net sum game for the islamists. The moment we lose 100k people is the moment certain cities become so much ash, there wont be a wait to find out without a glimmer of a doubt exactly who did it. To do such would just invite further attacks and cause the US populace at large to disbelieve its own government capable of governing. No I think the response would be to certain countries, disarm immediately, be prepared for entering US troops to take over your country, or simply die, we won't even bother pussyfooting around anymore. Tactical nukes would be used a lot more commonly as well in such an instance and the draft would exceed well over 4 million to accomdate the number of countries we'd need to pacify.

Posted by Val 2003-11-13 9:10:28 PM|| 2003-11-13 9:10:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 "the draft would exceed well over 4 million "

No need, they'd be turning away millions of volunteers by that point.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-13 9:50:22 PM|| 2003-11-13 9:50:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 "bring it on..."

Posted by Rawsnacks 2003-11-13 10:04:58 PM|| 2003-11-13 10:04:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 The United States Armed Forces are in the Habit of IFLICTING a disporportional amount of casualities. At 100K dead, figure it out for yourself. And all it would take is one Trident submarines full missle load. I said after 9/11 that we should take the nukes off of all the Tridents in one boat and replace them with dummy warheads and inform the Russians, Chinese, British and the French that what they are when they get fired. Target each one at the singke most prominent mosque, park, museum, whatever in every major Islamic city in the world. And inside each dummy is a note in English and Arabic. THE NEXT TIME WE ARE NOT GOING TO FUCK AROUND. YOU HAVE ONE WEEK TO DELIVER THE PEOPLE WE WANT AND THEN WE START SHOOTING

Posted by Anonymous 2003-11-13 10:59:53 PM|| 2003-11-13 10:59:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 It would take about a dozen 250KT nukes. One each automatically slams into Mecca and Medina. You want to worship a black rock, we'll vaporize your damned black rock and the city built around it. Innocent victims? No such thing - merely enablers. Riyadh given one chance to surrender, then BOOM. Egypt told what to do, when, to whom. Fail, or refuse, and a big, dirty nuke smacks Aswan. Cairo and everything from Aswan to the Med becomes uninhabitable. Not much else to go to there... Assad told to surrender unconditionally, the Paleo terror asshats murdered like the thugs they are by gunship, cannon fire, or whatever we damned well please. Damascus could become the next glass city, but probably not - too close to Israel. No such problem with Teheran, Qom, Bandar Abbas, and dozens of other Iranian cities. You want to continue to exist? Bring us the heads of your turbantops. Just the heads, we don't even need the turbans. Miss one, and somebody (probably a large number of somebodies) fries. Take off the gloves in the Afghanistan problem. Seed the Afghan/Pak border with mines - maybe nuke mines. Start flying it with Spectres, with a shoot-on-sight order for anyone within three km of the border. Give the Indians a free hand in Kashmir. If China bitches, slam a dud Tomahawk into the Three Gorges dam - I'm sure they'll get the message. What was the estimate of the death toll if that thing crumbled - a third of China destroyed, including 400 million people? NO nation could withstand that, not even China. And to think they did that to themselves!

Somebody's not done their research, or they've been partaking of too much of the poppy. Either way, they are making a terrible, terrible mistake. The guy in the White House right now WILL pull the trigger. I'll gladly help him, if the idiotarians do something that stupid.

As for fifth column weenies like Chomsky, Sarandon, Kuccinch, Moore, Kerry, Martin, Kennedy, Leahy, Clinton(s), Rather, Jennings, Carter, Soros, and thousands of others, it would have been better for them never to have been born.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-11-13 11:18:48 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-11-13 11:18:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Above post not by the Anonymous further up the tree

Posted by Cheddarhead 2003-11-13 11:19:35 PM|| 2003-11-13 11:19:35 PM|| Front Page Top

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