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 10/08/2005 04:04:20 PM · #1
Just a matter of time? How do you prepare for a nuclear attack? Do you believe?

"Paul L. Williams is a former consultant to the FBI on organized crime and terrorism. Since then, he has become an award-winning investigative journalist and written several books. In his new book, 'The Al Qaeda Connection,' he claims Osama bin Laden has obtained nuclear weapons and smuggled them into the U.S. through Mexico for use in a plot known as 'American Hiroshima.'" - worldnetdaily.com

American Hiroshima
 10/08/2005 04:38:00 PM · #2
Originally posted by res0m50r:
Just a matter of time? How do you prepare for a nuclear attack?


Find out where it's gonna' hit and get right under it.
Wouldn't want to be a survivor in the days after...
Poof!
 10/08/2005 05:27:51 PM · #3
Originally posted by BradP:
Originally posted by res0m50r:
Just a matter of time? How do you prepare for a nuclear attack?


Find out where it's gonna' hit and get right under it.
Wouldn't want to be a survivor in the days after...
Poof!


According to the interview, "These areas have been identified as New York, Miami, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, D.C. The attack will occur simultaneously at the seven sites."
 10/08/2005 07:31:44 PM · #4
Ummm, do not think so. Las Vegas? Oh noes.

I do not even live in the US and find that silly. The whole idea of terrorists using nukes? If it came to that, there would not be a muslem nation on the planet that did not glow. They know it. They maybe idiots, but they are not stupid.
 10/08/2005 07:43:48 PM · #5
From what I understand, Paul L. Williams has been spouting off about this for some number of years. He may well be right, but it does smack of the end-of-the-world doomsayers that keep having to revise their notion of the actual time the world will end as deadline after deadline passes.

Chicken Little rides again, so to speak.

10/08/2005 11:01:56 PM · #6
Originally posted by mpemberton:
Ummm, do not think so. Las Vegas? Oh noes.

I do not even live in the US and find that silly. The whole idea of terrorists using nukes? If it came to that, there would not be a muslem nation on the planet that did not glow. They know it. They maybe idiots, but they are not stupid.


Yes, these the same extremist that strap on a bomb and walk into subways, buses, etc and blow themselves up. I am not sure if he is right or not. I can't validated it, but its not outside of my logic to think this is very viable, possible and with in the extremist plans. If a terrorist feels that he fighting against America is his purpose and he is fulfilling prophesy. That this is the direction God wants him to take by commiting a suicide bombing or flying an airplane into a building or detonating a nuclear bomb, why would he take into any consideration muslim nations?
 10/12/2005 11:49:43 AM · #7
Homeland Security

What scares me more is not how active our administration is in pursuing homeland security, but how de-sensitized the American public is about the reality of how safe we really are in this country. No administration of any party is going to be able to fully protect us from all threats. It is just a matter of time.
 10/12/2005 11:57:07 AM · #8
...buy a nice lens and forget about it
 10/12/2005 11:59:54 AM · #9
Originally posted by res0m50r:
Homeland Security

What scares me more is not how active our administration is in pursuing homeland security, but how de-sensitized the American public is about the reality of how safe we really are in this country. No administration of any party is going to be able to fully protect us from all threats. It is just a matter of time.


What concerns me even more is that people are accepting it as a "matter of time". Perhaps if the US stayed out of other country's business and stopped upsetting and killing people we wouldn't be so high on the target list?
 10/12/2005 12:12:20 PM · #10
Originally posted by JonLud:
Originally posted by res0m50r:
Homeland Security

What scares me more is not how active our administration is in pursuing homeland security, but how de-sensitized the American public is about the reality of how safe we really are in this country. No administration of any party is going to be able to fully protect us from all threats. It is just a matter of time.


What concerns me even more is that people are accepting it as a "matter of time". Perhaps if the US stayed out of other country's business and stopped upsetting and killing people we wouldn't be so high on the target list?


Maybe, but even if we pulled out as you state, do you really think we would be safe? Would that do it for these obviously logical extremist? I disagree. The mentality that people won't attack if you don't give them a reason just isn't viably true. Again, I would argue that the logical approach of a terrorist is not one of retaliation against previous wrongs, but self fulfilling interpretation of fanatical motivation.
 10/12/2005 12:23:13 PM · #11
How many people will we piss off if we did nothing outside of our borders and left everyone alone?

You can't make everyone happy. No matter what we do, some idiot with a bomb and a backpack will find a reason to hate us.
 10/12/2005 12:31:51 PM · #12
Originally posted by res0m50r:
Originally posted by JonLud:
Originally posted by res0m50r:
Homeland Security

What scares me more is not how active our administration is in pursuing homeland security, but how de-sensitized the American public is about the reality of how safe we really are in this country. No administration of any party is going to be able to fully protect us from all threats. It is just a matter of time.


What concerns me even more is that people are accepting it as a "matter of time". Perhaps if the US stayed out of other country's business and stopped upsetting and killing people we wouldn't be so high on the target list?


Maybe, but even if we pulled out as you state, do you really think we would be safe? Would that do it for these obviously logical extremist? I disagree. The mentality that people won't attack if you don't give them a reason just isn't viably true. Again, I would argue that the logical approach of a terrorist is not one of retaliation against previous wrongs, but self fulfilling interpretation of fanatical motivation.


Actually, i don't think pulling out would solve anything. At least as far as threats to US interests go. The damage has already been done (and not only in the attack of Iraq, the damage has been on going for quite some time now). But attacking countries without clear reason, and without the backing of the UN isn't exactly the way to go about changing the world's opinion of the US.
 10/13/2005 01:00:34 AM · #13
Originally posted by louddog:
How many people will we piss off if we did nothing outside of our borders and left everyone alone?

You can't make everyone happy. No matter what we do, some idiot with a bomb and a backpack will find a reason to hate us.


Not true. The United States as earned its animosity honestly. No one in the US, with a straight face, can say that after world war one, that the US has not marched to a different drummer then the fathers of the Americas envisioned.
 10/13/2005 01:15:16 AM · #14
I like the reply about getting right underneath the bomb as it goes off.

I remember seeing a film about how dynamite actually blows downward - so a nuclear bomb must blow the opposite way - upwards, right?

So, getting underneath it would be the safest place to be in the whole wide world.

Wait a minute - that "film" was the Three Stooges. Never mind.
 10/13/2005 08:42:23 PM · #15
Originally posted by mpemberton:
Originally posted by louddog:
How many people will we piss off if we did nothing outside of our borders and left everyone alone?

You can't make everyone happy. No matter what we do, some idiot with a bomb and a backpack will find a reason to hate us.


Not true. The United States as earned its animosity honestly. No one in the US, with a straight face, can say that after world war one, that the US has not marched to a different drummer then the fathers of the Americas envisioned.


You're absolutely right! The 'fathers of the Americas' never envisioned the abolition of slavery, the right of women to vote, etc.
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