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genieroze Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 01:05 AM
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Terror expert: Qaida WMD attack on US likely soon
I wasn't sure if I should post this in LBN so I posted here to be sure.


Nov. 29, 2004 0:08 | Updated Nov. 29, 2004 0:40
Terror expert: Qaida WMD attack on US likely soon
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS

An al-Qaida attack on the US with non-conventional weapons is virtually "inevitable," and the organization is likely "tying up the knots" for such an attack, Yosef Bodansky, former director of the US Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.

"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 said.

Bodansky, here for the second annual Jerusalem Summit, an international gathering of conservative thinkers, added that "the primary option" for the next al-Qaida attack on US soil would be one that would use weapons of mass destruction.

"I do not have a crystal ball, but this is what all the available evidence tells us, we will have a bang," Bodansky said.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1101615867007
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DenverDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 01:07 AM
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1. An Israeli conservative should know.
I'm just saying. . .
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 01:12 AM
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 02:20 AM
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7. say no more
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 01:12 AM
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2. Preparing the minds of the people ahead of time
So that when it does happen the government can say "we told you so" and work to curtail more rights and take more power.

National ID cards anyone? Black boxes in all our cars to track us? Restrictions on the internet?

All coming to a USA near you soon. Planned and ready to roll out.

Paging Hal Lindsey, please revise book title to: The late great united states.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 01:13 AM
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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 01:38 AM
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6. Isn't that kinda convenient with all the questions
we have about the election and marches being organized to protest?
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nofurylike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 03:29 AM
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11. i agree. n/t
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 01:38 AM
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5.  I have an awful feeling this is true. Notice the point is made that
until the reselection of Bush, the argument was made not to kill innocent American civilians but now the green light has been given as we are complicit!Fuck Bush and all those bastards that voted for him. No one had better preach forgiveness and understanding to me about this should this happen. They are bringing this on us ,dammit.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 02:49 AM
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8. This Bodansky fellow
is the one who warned the world in 1999 that Osama had 20 nukes. Around the same time, he claimed Saddam had a big operation cranking out nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, with a stockpile so large that he was an exporter to radical Arab states.

Keep that in mind while reading this guy's "more horrible than anything we've seen before" and "all but inevitable" squalling.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 03:04 AM
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9. What does it mean?
Does it mean 'Iran is Next'?

or

what?

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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 03:20 AM
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10. It seems certain that Bushco
wants Iran to be next. As to whether Bodansky is being used to soften us up for it, I dunno. But he's been terribly wrong before and may be falling on his face again with this overwrought warning.
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saracat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 04:21 AM
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12. I hope you are right. I had never heard of him!
Thank You for the heads up!
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__Inanna__ Donating Member (246 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 04:39 AM
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13. I'm so glad you all are here to interpret the news
This is just the kind of story that could keep me awake the rest of the night. As alarming as this is, and as much as it makes sense after reading the full Bin Laden transcript, I was pretty much predicting (to myself) that we'd have a big terrorist attack, only to be followed by something like martial law. It seems like the faster people are waking up, the faster things are escalating in terms of putting forward whatever agenda has been in place, by whomever. I am just so dang confused. All I know is the pieces fit perfectly together, even if a person thinks Bin Laden is behind all of it. It reads like some sci-fi horror film, where you just know what the next scene will bring. Unfortunately, it's real life. I never thought I'd see this in my life.
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jbond56 Donating Member (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 06:04 AM
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14. either that or
The truth is about to surface surrounding this election. We have had years of prior scare tactics to change the subject.

Peaople should be more afraid of the flu. It is a greater risk than al-Qaida.

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Dem2theMax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-04 06:58 AM
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15. Whoa. We're getting slow around here. Took 14 posts before someone
came up with the real reason for the new terra lert.

Congrats 'either that or.' You may not have a high post count yet, but you sure catch on fast. :thumbsup:
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