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\n financial markets and intelligence agencies around the world are jittery
\n this week, although no one wants to come right out and say why, other
\n than the usual mealy mouthed mumbling about "security concerns".<\/p>\n
However, the Dowbrigade’s highly placed sources report that most of In the "Dr. Ayman al-Zawahri laughed and he said: ‘Mr. Mir, if you have $30 Obviously, officials don’t want to panic anyone when there is no way So it is looking like the operant questions are less "Is this possible" It’s a complete crap shoot, although many targets The Dowbrigade has long been convinced that the 60 year hiatus on nuclear We are convinced that the only imaginable event that could trigger or For years we have secretly hoped that this inevitable and unenviable We still believe that this is the only hope we have to avoid, or at But it has never been done on as massive a scale or in as short a period World financial markets and intelligence agencies around the world are jittery this week, although no one wants to come right out and say why, other than the usual mealy mouthed mumbling about "security concerns". However, the Dowbrigade’s highly placed sources … Continue reading
\n the unease can be traced to an interview given by Osama Bin Laden’s left
\n hand man to an Australian paper, in which he claimed that Al Quaida
\n had already
\n obtained a suitcase nuclear device. From
\n Haaretz.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\n interview with Australian Broadcasting Corp. television, parts of
\n which were released Sunday, Mir recalled telling al-Zawahri
\n it was difficult to believe al-Qaida had nuclear weapons when the terror
\n network didn’t have the equipment to maintain or use them. <\/p>\n
\n million, go to the black market in Central Asia, contact any disgruntled
\n Soviet
\n scientist and a lot of…smart briefcase bombs are available,"’
\n Mir said in the interview. <\/p>\n
\n to confirm these reports or any way to predict when and where these suitcases
\n will appear. However, it is increasingly clear that a number of these
\n devices have disappeared, and the $30 million price tag seems both reasonable
\n and sufficient to entice any disgruntled ex-Soviet military officials
\n with access. Al Quaida certainly has the money. Getting the thing into
\n the US through our porous ports and borders should be no problem.<\/p>\n
\n than "When and where will this happen?" Al Quaida’s penchant for spectacular
\n strikes and utter disregard for civilian casualties make the unimaginable
\n conceivable. But where?<\/p>\n
\n would seem to be attractive to the
\n terrorists
\n twisted
\n attraction
\n to symbolic dates and PR potential. Washington on the 4th of July? How
\n about New York City during the Republican National Convention?<\/p>\n
\n attacks is admirable but temporary. Never in human history have new weapons
\n been built and stockpiled but never used. In fact, warfare is such an
\n ingrained tendency in human society that, although it can be avoided
\n for extended periods, to eliminate it entirely will require a significant
\n upgrade in our system software, otherwise known as "human nature".<\/p>\n
\n act as a catalyst for a worldwide change of underlying operating assumptions
\n that determine human behavior would be an actual nuclear attack on a
\n populated area, broadcast live, in dying color and Dantesque detail,
\n into the living rooms and community centers and modems of every city
\n town and village on the planet.<\/p>\n
\n tragedy would be visited on some benighted land as far away and out of
\n the global jet stream atmospheric distribution patters reaching North
\n America as possible. South Africa, the India-Pakistan border or Taiwan
\n came to mind as candidates. We imagined a worldwide uprising against
\n politicians, armies, weapons and governments that could allow such a
\n thing to happen, and an overwhelming, irresistible massive human movement
\n to destroy all nuclear weapons, reactors and laboratories once and all
\n and forever.<\/p>\n
\n least to delay, the premature extinction of the preadolescent human species,
\n before we have a chance to learn to walk, develop our potential, or
\n reach for the stars. To survive, we need a major upgrade in our OS. It
\n is clearly not an impossible task, as individuals throughout recorded
\n history have raised their level of consciousness way beyond the level
\n necessary for the species to survive a while longer.<\/p>\n
\n of time as is necessary now to save our sorry asses. Unfortunately, it
\n is looking increasingly likely that the necessary lesson is going to
\n take place a lot closer to home than we had hoped.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"