Bin claims he's got nukes

[Ryanamur]

I had a feeling he might have but now he claims he does.

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'We have nuclear weapons': bin Laden
Last Updated: Sat Nov 10 10:23:39 2001

ISLAMABAD - Osama bin Laden says his al-Qaeda organization has nuclear and chemical weapons.

The terrorist mastermind accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States told a Pakistani newspaper his fighters will respond in kind if the United States uses weapons of mass destruction against Afghanistan.
"I wish to declare that if America used chemical and nuclear weapons against us, then we may retort with chemical and nuclear weapons," he told the Dawn newspaper. "We have the weapons as a deterrent."

Dawn, one of Paksitan's largest newspapers, said Hamid Mir interviewed bin Laden Wednesday night somewhere near Kabul.

It was bin Laden's first interview with a journalist since suicide hijackers sent passenger jets slamming into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and an isolated field in Pennsylvania.

Mir is a journalist sympathetic to the Taliban, and a biographer of bin Laden. He edits Ausaf, an Urdu-language paper that also published the interview.

A photograph in Dawn showed Mir with bin Laden sitting on cushions with a brown backdrop. A Kalashnikov lay by bin Laden's side.

When he asked bin Laden where he got the nuclear weapons, Mir was told to "go to the next question."

Mir says he was blindfolded and taken in a jeep from Kabul. The interview took place in a cold location where he said he could hear anti-aircraft fire.

Shortly after he arrived, Mir said bin Laden and his right hand man Ayman Al-Zuwahri arrived with a dozen bodyguards.

Most of the interview consisted of a repetition of bin Laden's anti-Western rhetoric.

Without accepting the blame, the al-Qaeda leader said the Sept. 11 attacks were justified because of U.S. foreign policy in Israel, Iraq and elsewhere.

The White on Friday discounted bin Laden's claim, but did say bin Laden had nuclear weapons on his shopping list.

"They're seeking chemical, biological and nuclear weapons," President George W. Bush on Friday. "Given the means, our enemies would be a threat to every nation and, eventually, to civilization itself."

The United States had "no credible evidence at this point of a specific threat of that kind," said National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.


Written by CBC News Online staff

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Now, I doubt that he will only use them if we use them, that's my opinion though!

[Yorick]

Look what he did with suicidals and boxcutters.

One shudders at the thought of suicidals and nukes.

How do you stop this guys???!!!!!

Boy am I looking forward to going back to New York.

[Yorick]

Screw that. If I die, I die. I'm not going to live in fear.

[Ryanamur]

Yorick, glad to see you back. [img]smile.gif[/img]

I really hate to say it but the only way to deal with these people (IMO) is to kill them before they kill us! I know it's immoral but since they will never stop, that's the only viable option for us.

BTW: don't let yourself be affected by terrorists. I know you're intelligent enough to realize that if you fear, they've won. Life is no more dangerous now than before 9-11. In fact, it's less dangerous for the simple reason that we now know that there's a threath. I know you're a religeous man (please recongnize that my intent is not malicious) ask God for guidance. I'm sure you'll find out that you are not to fear but to live. That's why He put you on this Earth isn't it?

Cheers and hang in there my friend.

[ 11-10-2001: Message edited by: Ryanamur ]

[John D Harris]

If he's got them he would have used them, a simple country-boy like me can figure out how to deliver nukes, with-out having ICBMs, and I'm not a siphisticated (sp/)terrorist master mind. He is not worried in the slightist about world oppinon, see 11 Sept, 2001.

[Ryanamur]

quote:

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Originally posted by John D Harris:
If he's got them he would have used them, a simple country-boy like me can figure out how to deliver nukes, with-out having ICBMs, and I'm not a siphisticated (sp/)terrorist master mind. He is not worried in the slightist about world oppinon, see 11 Sept, 2001.

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See, if I was a terrorist, I wouldn't deliver them on my first attack. Blow up two building here, crash a few planes there, disrupt the world economy, get the ennemy to attack then, you make your real statement. It's like a game of chess. Do you use your queen to take out the other guys queen or you move her out of the way and try to take the other guys queen with your pawn? I'm a move her out of the way type of guy. Position everything the way you want and then, you check mate the other guy! He's a lunatic but he's not an idiot. You get a bigger effect out of a build up than you would out of a single strike.

Ryanamur,
You are exactly right.
Let's hope that it does not come to that sort of end in order to make a new beginning.
I'm not going to let the threat scare me though...God watches over me and I'll keep doing as I always do until He takes me out in whatever manner He deems necessary.
Until then, I'll keep praying for all of us.

[skywalker]

Bin did say he will use nukes and chem weapons if they are used against him first. We can believe him or not. That's just what he said..could be a bluff, could be true or maybe not. I'd hate to test it out though.

[ 11-11-2001: Message edited by: skywalker ]

[250]

err...

the truth is he doesnt have nuke. what does the majority fear? nuclear

so he feeds on that fear and give you info that "I have a nuke!"
he doesn't. if he does or has the ability to launch it, he'd used it already.

it is far more difficult to launch a nuke when US is highly secured after Sep 11. the terror would strick fully (and far more greater) if he had nuke and launched it on Sep 11 than crashing planes into WTC.

think of how many more people would die then? not just 5,000 (I am saying 'just 5,000' in comparison to the potential casualty caused by a nuclear attack)

John D Harris said he'd figure out how to launch a nuke. John, given your knowledge, is it easier to nuke attack US before Sep 11 or now? (consider all the prections US has taken)

nope, he doesnt have nuke. it is just an desperate empty claim in hope to buy himself some time from a man who lives in cave

nope, he doesnt have shit

[skywalker]

quote:

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Originally posted by DM of FAoIW:
err...

the truth is he doesnt have nuke. what does the majority fear? nuclear

so he feeds on that fear and give you info that "I have a nuke!"
he doesn't. if he does or has the ability to launch it, he'd used it already.

it is far more difficult to launch a nuke when US is highly secured after Sep 11. the terror would strick fully (and far more greater) if he had nuke and launched it on Sep 11 than crashing planes into WTC.

think of how many more people would die then? not just 5,000 (I am saying 'just 5,000' in comparison to the potential casualty caused by a nuclear attack)

John D Harris said he'd figure out how to launch a nuke. John, given your knowledge, is it easier to nuke attack US before Sep 11 or now? (consider all the prections US has taken)

nope, he doesnt have nuke. it is just an desperate empty claim in hope to buy himself some time from a man who lives in cave

nope, he doesnt have shit

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You wanna call his bluff? I really don't care what he's got, along as we don't use nukes or chems in Afghanistan.