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Al-Qaeda has nukes, says Washinton Times
Now, the WT isn't, what one would call, a reputable newspaper, still . . .
http://washingtontimes.com/national/...2052-2698r.htm
Commentary on the WT piece below.
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CIA: Did We Say Saddam Had Bio & Chem Weapons?
Sorry--we meant al-Qaeda!
Someone has leaked a supposed four-page internal CIA report to Bill Gertz at the Washington Times, the Moonie paper that regularly serves as an outlet for the hardliners in the Bush administration. Of course very few people read the Washington Times in the normal course of events, but the Drudge Report--which gets a few million visitors a day, remember--is featuring it as today's banner headline. And of course the TV news networks are yammering about it too. So it's a fairly big story in today's news cycle.
Under the thoroughly sensational and misleading headline ("CIA Says al-Qaeda Ready to Use Nukes"), there's really nothing to it--that is, nothing we haven't seen before. It's just a recapitulation of old intelligence and old speculation, most of it culled from manuals and documents obtained in Afghanistan over the past couple of years.
But the political purpose of leaking it is clear enough. The people must have the frisson of imminent, unprecedented danger, and the Bushmen must have a fresh distraction from their many continuing failures in Iraq, not least the failure to find anything resembling WMDs or serious facilities for their construction. The rest of the world won't buy it, but the folks at home will still believe anything.
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June 3, 2003, 17:17
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Re: Al-Qaeda has nukes, says Washinton Times
I'll wait for someone other than the Moonies to say it before panicing.
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June 3, 2003, 17:19
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June 3, 2003, 17:20
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Re: Re: Al-Qaeda has nukes, says Washinton Times
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Originally posted by DinoDoc
I'll wait for someone other than the Moonies to say it before panicing.
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Of course very few people read the Washington Times in the normal course of events, but the Drudge Report--which gets a few million visitors a day, remember--is featuring it as today's banner headline. And of course the TV news networks are yammering about it too. So it's a fairly big story in today's news cycle.
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June 3, 2003, 17:25
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I've always wondered about that.
If terrorists has WOMD or nukes they would have used them on Israel already.
So it's safe to conclude they don't have them.
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June 3, 2003, 17:32
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What Diss said. 
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June 3, 2003, 17:41
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Hmm... damn, I'll be far from my bomb shelter all summer  Hehe, they called it a "tornado" shelter when they sold us the house.
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June 3, 2003, 17:49
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next weeks Gallup poll:
"74% of Americans think Al Qaeda has it's own NORAD in the Afghan mountains and has 1,000 nukes pointed at our major cities."
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June 3, 2003, 17:59
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JAG BAG HA HA
THAT Rhymes with _COMEDY_
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June 3, 2003, 18:02
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and "brain cell loss"... coincidentally.
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June 3, 2003, 18:05
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Been huffin poppers, have we? That's ok, because JAG BAG HA HA HA
HA AAA HA
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June 3, 2003, 18:06
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If terrorists has WOMD or nukes they would have used them on Israel already.
Al Qaeda's enemy isn't Israel. Have they attacked any Israeli targets?
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June 3, 2003, 18:07
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Zylka man, I enjoy these little exchanges, but for me to respond, you need to at least make some sense.
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June 3, 2003, 18:08
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June 3, 2003, 18:09
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Edited by Ming... See ya in a week Zylka 
Last edited by Ming; June 3, 2003 at 19:02.
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June 3, 2003, 18:11
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Zylka: :lol 
Jag Bag rhymes with comedy...
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June 3, 2003, 18:24
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Duck and cover.
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June 3, 2003, 19:02
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true their enemy isn't Israel.
But it is safe to say that if they had nukes they got them from someone else. So if Al Quida had nukes, so would Hamas.
And Al Quida is against jews and christians. They just choose to concentrate most of their hatred upon the U.S. right now.
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June 3, 2003, 19:04
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They're bad people in general.
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June 3, 2003, 19:27
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Al Qaeda's enemy isn't Israel. Have they attacked any Israeli targets?
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Well, they did target (and missed) that Israeli aircraft in Kenya a while back, but they haven't targeted Israel any more than their other enemies.
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June 3, 2003, 19:28
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Originally posted by Dissident
I've always wondered about that.
If terrorists has WOMD or nukes they would have used them on Israel already.
So it's safe to conclude they don't have them.
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Unless they want to wait until they have several, use one and then use the others to prevent a retaliation, or something.
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June 3, 2003, 19:31
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Or maybe they just got scammed. I heard the Russian mafia sold alQueda some fake nukes or nuclear material or something like that.
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June 3, 2003, 19:35
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nukes, eh?
true or not, the story will start quite a panic, im sure
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June 3, 2003, 20:34
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I know I'm safe. Al Qaeda wouldn't dare come to the land of the Mormons for any reason.
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June 3, 2003, 20:39
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I thought that we figured they had nukes all along. Is this some shocking breaking news or something?
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June 3, 2003, 21:55
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nah, if they had nukes all along, they surely would have used them by now on washington DC or LA or New York or somethn.
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