Expert: Bush re-election will lead to Al Qaeda Nuke attack in US

[Her Blondness]

http://salon.com/opinion/right_hook/2004/12/01/terror_cia/print.html

From today's Salon - "Right Hook" --

Terrorism expert says Bush's reelection gave bin Laden a "kosher stamp from the Islamic world" to use nukes on U.S. -- and a major attack is "inevitable."

One well-known conservative thinks that President Bush's reelection will lead to a horrific al-Qaida attack. According to the Jerusalem Post, Yossef Bodansky, the Israeli-born former director of the U.S. Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare and author of "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America," says that an al-Qaida attack on the U.S. with nonconventional weapons is virtually "inevitable," and that the organization is likely "tying up the knots" for such an attack. "All of the warnings we have today indicate that a major strike -- something more horrible than anything we've seen before -- is all but inevitable," he told the Post on Sunday.

After 9/11 and the launch of the U.S. global war on terrorism, a theological debate began within the operational arm of al-Qaida, Bodansky says, over whether the mass killing of innocents using weapons of mass destruction was permissible. Former CIA analyst and bin Laden expert Michael Scheuer asserted in his book "Imperial Hubris" that bin Laden has had the Islamic world's approval to use nuclear weapons against U.S. civilians since May 2003, when a Saudi cleric condoned it in a "lucidly written" treatise citing Islamic law and rebuking U.S. transgressions against Muslims.

Bodansky argues that Bush's reelection has poured fuel on that fire.
"While bin Laden and his associates argued that by virtue of their participation in US democracy, US citizens were enabling their rulers to fight, other Islamic luminaries contended that this does not permit such massive attacks, Bodansky said. The reelection of Bush in November, he said, was viewed by bin Laden and his cohorts as a decisive answer to this deliberation, with Americans now 'choosing' to be the enemies of Islam. In bin Laden's mind-set, he said, the stage was set for a non-conventional attack. While there may still be some vestiges of debate and doubt within Islamic circles, he believes that planning for such an attack is finished. 'They got the kosher stamp from the Islamic world to use nuclear weapons,' he said."

Curiously, this analysis did not get any play in the media before the election.

[Ganja Ninja]

1. Now that the election is over it's time to put the fear of God ..

back into America.

[lapfog_1]

2. LIHOP or MIHOP, they "need" another attack

we still have some freedoms...

LAX would be the most likely, followed closely by San Fran
(if you are going to nuke the US - or allow it to be nuked - why
not the state most hated by the Freepers? God shall smite the
sodomites! heavy sarcasm here, btw)

[tom_paine]

6. Exactly. And I don't think Bush's employees are going to wait until Sept.

this time.

There is much work for their Bushevik Masters (or perhaps it's just loosely affiliated pals who's interests are the same for different reasons) still yet to do and little time.

I agree, but I didn't need an "expert" to tell me, and neither did you I see.

Of course it's coming, like not follows day as the Invasion of France followed the Invasion of Poland following the Sitzkrieg.

You know, the Sitzkrieg like Imperial Amerika is currently in.

[ramapo]

3. Plays right into the Neocon plans

Such an attack would be the carte blanche excuse for worldwide military action while basically cancelling the constitution and imposing rule by fiat.

[BlueManDude]

4. we have never been in more danger than right now

we will get hit again. the unjustified occupation of iraq sealed the deal on it. the only question is where and when?

[Paradise]

5. and, for obvious reasons,

it could very well take place in a "red state/s" this time...

[Her Blondness]

7. But the election really isn't over until the electoral college

Here's my plan: If this bit of news gets into the mainstream and gets a lot of play, maybe some bush electors will get spooked into "turning" and voting for Kerry when the electoral college votes. If we're going to get nuked because bush was elected, maybe fear would work in Kerry's favor! It would be so ironic.

That's the best I can do at this point...