al Qaeda's next attack??

Obviously you beef up security, but it sounds to me like Al-Qaeda is getting their collective @sses handed to them so they're trying to scare the American people into pressuring the government into stopping the attacks. They've tried it since the start. All they did was make the governments decision in showing the bin Laden tape easier. I mean look at the guy! He looks like a psycho and a crackhead!

 

I don't think we've done as well as the media has put on. They weren't a state army, but an occupying militia. Scattering and destroying should have been easy with the help of locals, but when I hear that 500 escaped into Iran and 600 into Pakistan especially when it's 22 of their top leaders...

 

gettinbranded do you have a link for this information?

 

mcmark:

It's on cnn.com, somewhere.

Anyway, I don't think it's credible simply for the last part, if no other reason. It's not possible to destroy the U.S. If Russia fired every single nuclear weapon they had, as did China... the U.S. would still retain about 1/3 of its industry and 45% of its population (numbers not exact, but approximate). Very painful... but al Queda ain't Russia.

 

Exactly how powerful are nuclear bombs these days. I mean what type of radius are we talking where everything would be leveled or at least significantly damaged/contaminated. While I once heard somewhere that we have enough nukes to blow up the world 2.5 times I somehow didn't think the bombs could cover the entire freakin land area of earth 2.5 times. Maybe they were using a certain percentage of damage to consider something destroyed and that allowed for the 2.5 number. However, it does seem strange that all the Russian and Chinese nukes combined could only kill 45% of us. I guess that's good news though that they couldn't completely destroy us.

And I'm certainly not worried that Al Queda could destroy our entire country. Definitely hurt us but not the whole country.

 

hey, rockHEAD, don't forget us teachers.

couldn't they issue this warning some other week than finals? how inconvenient.

 

Your lack of faith is disturbing.....

http://www.msnbc.com/news/627086.asp

 

Those numbers are sort of sensationalized. I guess it might be true that if the explosive force was optimized, it might be true. However, that simply isn't possible. Too much energy is wasted, etc, in any release.

A world wide nuclear holocaust simply isn't possible. It would be nasty, and hundreds of millions of people would die, but the doomsday scenarios are innacurate.

 

Wasn't questioning you.

This was just my worst fear. I'm one to think that Omar and Bin ladyman are already in Pakistan somewhere.

I've already heard unconfirmed reports that the US has started monitoring al Quaida bases being set up in several other countries.

Those slimy bastids...

 

In fourth grade there were alleged gunmen wandering our school. We all had to get against the wall with the lights out under the window to the classroom.

It was fun.

 

For a bunch of warriors so willing to die for their beliefs they sure are a bunch of candy a$$es.

Come out of your caves and die.