Al-Qaeda Threatens to Nuke New York on February 2

[GePap]

Originally posted by Ming
Who really knows what actions would be taken... but something like a nuke strike on New York would outrage the world a thousand times more than 9/11 did. If people think muslems are targets now, it would only get far worse. Such a strike would only set their cause back a thousand years, and label every muslem and muslem country a potential threat.

BY ignorant bigots, yes, this might be what happens. Thanksfully, even this admin. is not run by ignorant bigots. And set who's cause back? Islamic extemists? I have no porblem with thier cuase being set back by thousand of years. Islam's? Why? We nuked a city and it did not set us back. The Germans set up Dearth camps and it did not set them back, the Japanese committed huge attrocities and it did not set them back... I really fail to see the "setting back" of islam this would represent.

Yeah, you look toward "legitmacy"... but you know what, in the real world that would not matter. Sad... but true. Such a strike would change the rules... and God help us all. If they want a holy war... they would get it, and they would be on the receiving end. Fair... no... but probably true. It would be a bad move on their part, because their people would suffer more before it was all over.

You jeep saying "their people"..who are "their people"/ The very use of the phrase "their people" on your part worries me because there is no such thing as "their people" in the sense you are using it.

NO, such a strike would not "change the rules" anymore than if a criminal setting of an explosive in a police house would all of a sudden "change the rules" of police conduct in a city without serious oversight and outrage if the police went to far in their retaliation.

[Agathon]

I don't believe this, but consider that the race war you are all talking about is exactly what such an attack would be designed to provoke.

[Space05us]

If a muslim extremist group ever managed to nuke an American city I would go out of my way to create an organisation dedicated to the eradication of all things muslim.

but because that would never happen I'll remain the accepting individual I am.

[Agathon]

Hey let them nuke NY. Just evacuate everyone except the members of the NY Giants.

There... everyone's happy.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Don't forget the NY Rangers and NY Knicks .

Oh, and you'd have to import the NY Giants... they actually play in Jersey .

[Edan]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar

"The American infidels have no knowledge of our nuclear plan. Their police are so fat they cannot even get up! Nobody can stop us!" - Al Qaeda Information Minister

No, no, no:

"There is NO New York!" - Al Qaeda Information Minister.

[pchang]

Iraqi Information Minister

Originally posted by Edan


No, no, no:

"There is NO New York!" - Al Qaeda Information Minister.

Whatever happened to that guy? Did they ever find him?

[Combat Ingrid]

Originally posted by Space05us
If a muslim extremist group ever managed to nuke an American city I would go out of my way to create an organisation dedicated to the eradication of all things muslim.

Replace "muslim" with "American"

[Whoha]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar


I'm pretty sure they would

nope, we have weapons which annihilate population but leave oil fields intact, radiation dissipates quickly as well.

Aside from that, the Muslims have managed to piss off just about every power on the globe, they are beating our record for pissing people off, and damnit, thats just not acceptable.

[Whoha]

For the record though, I do not believe this threat, first off debka is somewhat questionable a source, and second, it would be counter productive for them to nuke New York(well any population center really).

[ICBM]

It's obviously BS... if Al Qaeda was planning anything, they wouldn't go around and tell everyone.

Sort of off-topic to this thread, but probably the worst threat in terms of nuclear conflict in the near future would be in Pakistan. There have been two assassination attempts in two weeks on Musharraf, and if extremists manage to take over in Pakistan, then a nuclear attack on India would be a significant possibility.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by Combat Ingrid


Replace "muslim" with "American"

Wow, that was funny AND in context.

[Solver]

Muslims have pissed half the world off... but if the NYC was nuked, that would stil not mean that the USA can go around and nuke Muslims. Because, if Teheran/Damascus/Abu-Dhabi/whatever was nuked, then out of the million dead people, 98% would be those who are normal people and would never wish to have NYC nuked.

As for the threat message itself... load of BS. If they had the capability to nuke a city, they'd want to do that without warning. Obviously, with such a warning they have no chance.

And I believe that, despite it being BS, there has to be uber-security that date. Security agencies have to work that way.

[GePap]

Originally posted by Solver
Muslims have pissed half the world off... but if the NYC was nuked, that would stil not mean that the USA can go around and nuke Muslims. Because, if Teheran/Damascus/Abu-Dhabi/whatever was nuked, then out of the million dead people, 98% would be those who are normal people and would never wish to have NYC nuked.

Excuse me, but what half the world are you speaking about? Even if you could claim all Americans and all Jews and all Hindus hated Muslims, that gets you 20% of the world. You are missing 30% there.

I am still ballfed. How is the killing of 3000 people by one group of likeminded political terro groups all of a sudden an indictment on 1.2 billion people? Anyone who thinks like that thinks just like the terrorists- and that is not some empty headed gov. crap, but the simple truth- people who are unable to seperate and distinguish the actions of certain poltiical entities from the people they either claim to recognize, or recognize legally is just the sort of person that decides to murder other simply for being what they are.

[Edan]

Originally posted by GePap


Excuse me, but what half the world are you speaking about? Even if you could claim all Americans and all Jews and all Hindus hated Muslims, that gets you 20% of the world. You are missing 30% there.

I am still ballfed. How is the killing of 3000 people by one group of likeminded political terro groups all of a sudden an indictment on 1.2 billion people? Anyone who thinks like that thinks just like the terrorists- and that is not some empty headed gov. crap, but the simple truth- people who are unable to seperate and distinguish the actions of certain poltiical entities from the people they either claim to recognize, or recognize legally is just the sort of person that decides to murder other simply for being what they are.

I don't want to put words into Solver's mouth, but I read the original quote as saying (Some) muslims pissed half the world off, but even if (some) muslims nuked New York, that wouldn't make it ok to nuke cities full of muslims, because 98% of those muslims didn't support nuking New York. I'm not sure I understand what your issue with that is, unless you misunderstood it (or I did).