Suitcase Bombs -- Don't panic

[Steve Perry]

don't you think the speculation about nukes has gotten a little overheated?
it took a big step forward with the retrieval of the papers from bin laden's
shack, but that was public domain information--it only affirmed they're
interested in nukes, as we already knew. seems agnosticism is the only
sensible stance regarding this matter.

another point, though: on't you reckon the advance of the n.a. and the
fallback of the taliban heighten the risk of more attacks on the u.s. in the
near term? three assumptions here: 1) it's bin laden's holy goal to draw the
u.s. into as broad a war as possible; 2) bL and al-qaida possess a coherent
plan for doing so; 3) they have something resembling the 'command and
control structure' the talking heads are always fulminating about. i'm
pretty sure of the first point, less so of the second, and not at all of the
third.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Kelley
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 9:35 AM
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Subject: Re: Suitcase Bombs -- Don't panic

At 11:04 PM 11/15/01 -0800, Gar Lipow wrote:
>If Bin Laden or any terrorist group loosely related to him had nukes,
>don't you think they would have used them by now, given what they did with
>box cutters?

er, they had boxcutters a long time before they used 'em too.


:p

kelley