ISLAMIC HIROSHIMA IS COMING TO USA
A few weeks after 9/11 I wrote a memorandum about the unimaginable events to come. I was not just criticized but some called me a lunatic. During the last presidential election I kept asking the question nobody dared to ask the candidates: What will you do when the Islamic atomic bomb explodes here? For months I proposed an answer to that question but nobody would even consider discussing it. Last week Rep. Tancredo on a radio program finally admitted that the bombing of Mecca may become inevitable.
On Sunday, the Houston Chronicle published a brutally frank article by a Pakistani professor.
OUR HIROSHIMA
Dropping the 'Islamic bomb'
An atomic attack on Fortress America by pious men with beards isn't a matter of if but when.
By PERVEZ HOODBHOY
Let his words speak for me:
“The New York Times reported that before the Sept. 11 attacks, the United States had intercepted an al-Qaida message that bin Laden was planning a "Hiroshima" against America.”
“Today, the United States lives in fear of the bomb it created, because the decision to use it has already been made. Pious men with beards will decide when and where on U.S. soil atomic weapons are to be used. Shadowy groups, propelled by fanatical hatreds, scour the globe for materials. They are not in a hurry. Time is on their side. They are doubtless confident they will one day breach Fortress America.”
“So what will happen when religious fanatics succeed in a nuclear attack? The world shall plunge headlong into a bottomless abyss of reaction and counter-reaction in a horror the human mind cannot comprehend.”
Some nuclear weapons experts say privately that it is not a question of if but when the attack will happen.
Who will the United States retaliate against? Will the United States nuke Mecca? The capitals of Muslim states?”
“What will the United States and its allies do as their people fear more attacks? Will they expel Muslims from the United States and Europe, or herd them into internment camps as was done to Japanese-Americans in World War II?”
Here are my words from one of the messages I sent out:
May 2002:
Our present strategy for survival is flawed. We are fighting not for the defense of our territory against an enemy who wants to conquer and occupy. What we are fighting for is defense of our way of life, threatened from within and by external enemies. It is useless to stand up against a foreign enemy if the internal enemies are overlooked. Enemies within will perpetrate sabotage and terrorism when the opportunity arises. If we do not recognize this, we are doomed.
In a war fought largely by means other than military power, our security no longer depends on our military capabilities, weapons systems or nuclear stockpile..
We are at war but we no longer are able to use wartime words such as "treason" and "subversion". It is hard to define "treason" as giving information to a foreign agent or country when you can give the same information with impunity to the media and get it publicized.
It is even harder to define "subversion" which is a systematic attempt to undermine society when such activity surrounds us in academia, the entertainment field and in the political arena, where politicians are willing to sacrifice national interests for political gain.
The consequences of unchecked terrorism can be devastating. People will feel insecure and soon will lose confidence in the police, the military and the government. The loss of confidence in the intelligence apparatus is the first domino to fall.
We are at war but we use words of containment and not of victory. We do have a "Homeline Security", a "Department of Defense", but we no longer have a "War Department" or even better an "Unconventional War Department". The duties of the UWD would be clear: Utilize subversion, disinformation, psychological war, espionage, terrorism, and guerilla war – in other words copy the methods of the enemy.
We are at war, but war usually requires sacrifice and reduction or suspension of the traditional liberties. First among them is the Freedom of The Media. Such suspension of freedoms in wartime is a necessity for survival. Standing in line at the airport to undergo symbolic but inane security checks is an inconvenience not a sacrifice. It is unfortunate that we have to wait for a major calamity and massive loss of lives before the politicians muster enough courage to speak out in support of such suspensions.
Like it or not, recognize it or not, we are in a war of survival with an enemy who does not want conquer our territory but wants to destroy our way of life and bring us down to his level of a Dark Age civilization. Their main weapons are the so-called martyr homicide bombers who will gladly exchange their substandard life on Earth for Paradise with rivers running with wine and eternal frolicking with 72 virgins.
We can not survive if we count only on our economic muscles and military strength. Survival is not of the fittest but the ones who can adapt to circumstance as water adapts to the vessel it is poured into. It is adapt or perish. In our politically motivated climate there is little hope of change until and unless another calamity occurs. When it does, you may quote this warning for your Monday morning quarterbacking.”
Long time ago I made a decision about the world. If there is to be a change, it was up to me. 437,000 Hungarian Jews waited for a leader to tell them what to do and then meekly went to Auschwitz and the gas chambers. How does that relate to us today? If you don’t feel it I will explain it later.
