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2006-06-23 Terror Networks

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Posted by john 2006-06-23 16:49|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Khawaja said, "I never heard Osama or Dr. (Ayman al-) Zawahiri discuss a nuclear attack on the (United States) and neither did I hear that from any other person. To me, these kind of ideas are ridiculous. Only states can use nuclear technology to destroy any country.

His lips were moving when he uttered this statement, deception clear indicated.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-06-23 17:13|| 2006-06-23 17:13|| Front Page Top

#2 A former Pakistani intelligence agent who once worked closely with Osama bin Laden

That this is said so matter of factly just amazes me.
This ISI lowlife should be occupying a cage inside Gitmo, not giving interviews.

Posted by john 2006-06-23 17:15|| 2006-06-23 17:15|| Front Page Top

#3 "Osama is above all this politicking. He is a great man and will remain great."

And your f*****g head will be sticking on a pole someday with OBL and Dr. Z. Their days are numbered.

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2006-06-23 19:10|| 2006-06-23 19:10|| Front Page Top

#4 "...a project aimed at bringing America back to the Stone Age..."

This is the most accurate description of the goal of Islamists I have ever seen. For it is civilization itself that is their enemy, and until civilization itself is destroyed, theirs is a dying philosophy.

They *want* the Stone Age for all mankind, a Stone Age with guns to *keep* it a Stone Age.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-23 19:28|| 2006-06-23 19:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Right ... so a bunch of Paki hillbillies that can barely kick-start a goat are supposed to build an e-bomb with enough energy to knock out a bunch of our stuff. Okey-dokey, then.

Image the most powerful bolt of lightning you have seen recently. Now beyond what it happened to actually strike, how much damage did it do to infrastructure in the surrounding area? Probably something close to 0. Now imagine one has to buld something MUCH more powerful than that.

This is an example of someone making something up to sell a story. Horsecrap.

Posted by crosspatch">crosspatch 2006-06-23 20:18|| http://crufty.blogspot.com]">[http://crufty.blogspot.com] 2006-06-23 20:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Many Muslims in America and around the world, Radicalized or not, anti-Amer/Western or not, are highly educated and trained in many engineering fields, including but not limited to nuclear engineering. In any case, this article is just more evidencia/indicia, AGAIN, that Amer's dedicated enemies are NOT fighting for a better world, but a regressed, darker, Socialist Totalitarian world where everyone is equal in their mutual poverty and universal lack of rights and freedoms. Any and all Clintonian adult Male Brutes have the right to die between ages 40-50 yo, or younger. Undoubtedly the futurist, pre-planned genocide of Western democracy and civilization will proceed.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-06-23 21:31|| 2006-06-23 21:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Something is seriously wrong with me and I may just need a break from RB. I've been reading JM's posts lately and they made sense. I apologize for any unintentional harm my delirium has caused

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-23 21:33|| 2006-06-23 21:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Considering the penchant for Radical Muslims to blow themselves up, pragmatically speaking the only utility for an EMP strike would be as cover for armed conventional invasion. To use to influence domestic politics = NPE, or mere harassment just becuz they can, won't achieve much for Radical islamists except to anger Americans more.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-06-23 21:35|| 2006-06-23 21:35|| Front Page Top

#9 If any of you read my posts yesterday (see thread: http://rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=156933&D=2006-06-22&HC=2), you now know that an EMP device is not very complicated to build. The advent of multi-farad electro-chemical capacitors makes a wide-area FCG (Flux Compression Generator) even more easy to construct.

Long ago, Mrs. Davis wisely suggested that America assemble a laundry list of rogue and terrorism sponsoring nations and simply inform them that a single major nuclear or bio-chem attack upon the USA will result in all of them being incinerated. We should now include an EMP attack in that list of qualifying offenses.

Let those who seek our destruction scramble to unmake their webs of treachery. They have sown the whirlwind, now comes the time where they must ride the tiger they've summoned up or die in its jaws. We must not flinch in holding these perfidious b@stards to their misdeeds. We have everything to lose and they have everything to gain from our downfall. We need to rebalance that equation and attach a momentous price to their fell works.

Posted by Zenster 2006-06-23 21:49|| 2006-06-23 21:49|| Front Page Top

#10 And I say that if such devices were so easy to build, many of them would have been built by now. People have no idea the amount of power that is required to actually do damage to something at any great distance. I would imagine someone could build something that might damage an electronic device in the same building, but I doubt they would be able to construct anything to damage a radius of a city block, and when you consider that as you double the distance you must square the power, each increase in distance away from the device requires huge increases in power.

If it is so simple and cheap, do it! I say that if it was, someone already would have.

Posted by crosspatch">crosspatch 2006-06-23 22:08|| http://crufty.blogspot.com]">[http://crufty.blogspot.com] 2006-06-23 22:08|| Front Page Top

#11 crosspatch
More than anything, I just wish that when these terrorist scumbags start crowing about attacking us with an EMP device we simply retort how that will get their home turf slagged. Then watch the local governments scramble to track down these vermin. Even boasting of such treachery needs to come with a pricetag.

Posted by Zenster 2006-06-23 22:19|| 2006-06-23 22:19|| Front Page Top

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