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The mastermind of the 9/11 attacks warned that Al-Qaeda has hidden a nuclear bomb in Europe that will unleash a "nuclear hellstorm" if Osama bin Laden is captured, leaked files revealed on Monday.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told Guantanamo Bay interrogators the terror group would detonate the device if the Al-Qaeda chief was captured or killed, acording to the classified files released by the WikiLeaks website.
Sheikh Mohammed, the self-professed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has been held at Guantanamo since 2006 and is to be tried in a military court at the US naval base on Cuba over the attacks.
His nuclear threat was revealed in Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper, one of several media outlets which have published the classified assessments of detainees at Guantanamo.
Sheikh Mohammed, captured in 2003 in Pakistan, also claims to have personally beheaded US journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002 with his "blessed right hand" and to have helped in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing that killed six people.
Now given that most Islamic fanatics are like kids with a new toy when it comes to letting off weapons and committing atrocities in the name of their deity can anyone imagine them not setting it off as and when they got it into the West? So it boils down to 2 choices, they haven't got one (quite likely) or they can't set it off (possible, though there are some smart Muslim engineers out there). There's also the problem of the reaction of Europe should they do something as barbaric and I doubt it would be pleasant nor I suspect would the cries of it's only a "tiny minority" rhetoric that would be wheeled out, along with reassurances that Islam is actually all about peace and is no way connected with this heinous act. Move along now, nothing to see here, be much of a shield for them. A government that failed to act to remove Islam from its borders would be an ex government in days. If those who think that Islamophobia is a problem now, just wait till they do something truly stupid. Even a simple option for them such as a dirty bomb is likely to provoke an extreme reaction and I suspect those at the top of the terrorist tree know this. So all in all this is a massive bluff by Al Quaeda, I know it, and I suspect anyone reading it would know it, particularly in the West, it's not even particularly good propaganda as their own side will be wondering why they haven't set it off.
Oh sure I believe our security forces will take it seriously enough to at least look, but I doubt they'll find one, smart money says they haven't got one otherwise they'd have set it off already.
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Hmm... there is a third choice... maybe they genuinely believe that they really do have one, but having bought it in good faith on the black-market and not daring to open it up for a look-see all they really have is a foil-wrapped crate of bricks with hazmat-stickers all over it and a few wires sticking out:-)
Is it not possible that they may have a support of a faction of Pakistani military and intelligence operatives. if so it is entirely credible that they may have a Nuclear device or two sitting in New York or London!!
I did consider that anonymous, however I believe and judging by previous actions by this group that if they had one, they would use it.
otherwise they'd have set it off already
Maybe even in error.
They might have a shiny bomb casing filled with used pinball machine parts!.
Sorry,I know I`m making light of a serious matter but i dont think even the most rabid islamist would be so stupid as to set off a nuke in Europe or the US,the response would be fast,lethal and without any of the moral shackles we put on ourselves at the moment,the islamic world would truly see just how ruthless and deadly the West can be when we put our minds to it.
The west didnt come to dominate much of the rest of the world by being weak.
XX There's also the problem of the reaction of Europe should they do something as barbaric and I doubt it would be pleasant nor I suspect would the cries of it's only a "tiny minority" rhetoric that would be wheeled out, along with reassurances that Islam is actually all about peace and is no way connected with this heinous act.XX
You want to take a fucking bet?
There are still apologists for the ragheads who were IN the world trade center on 11/09, let alone just living in New York.
I certainly wouldn't want to be the position of an ordinary peaceful law abiding Muslim (and there are some) in this country if such a thing happened. Indeed, I don't think that I'd want to be in the position of a Sikh or a Hindu, as many of us can't tell them apart. We haven't had civil war in this country for centuries, or in Europe since Franco, but I think that it'll come sooner or later, and such an act could be the trigger.
XX We haven't had civil war......for centuries, or in Europe since Franco, XX
BOLLOX!
Where the FUCK is Bosnia Herzogovona then, Africa?
Bosnia Herzegovina was not, by my understanding of the usual definition, a civil war, neighbour against neighbour, but a war between two countries which had been forceably merged with the dominant tribe taking control. It is a similar situation in Libya, where Cyraniaca and Tripolitania were merged after WW2. I would suggest this is totally different from the English Civil War, or the American Civil War, when member of the same family were frequently on opposing sides.
So we can expect this to go off any time from now, then...?
They really are idiots!
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