Howard Bloom
ALERT: Dodging the Nuclear 9/11
Sun Aug 22, 2004 03:44
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Dodging the Nuclear 9/11
By Howard Bloom
http://www.howardbloom.net/Wakeup_or_Shutdown2.htm

Osama bin Laden may soon have his hands on three Agosta 90B
next-generation stealth submarines capable of carrying sixteen
sea-to-land cruise missiles each. Those missiles can deliver atomic
warheads. And Osama, I suspect, will have access to the forty nuclear
warheads constructed by Pakistan.
Washington and New York, two primary targets for Al Qaeda, are near
bodies of water from which these nuclear-tipped missiles can be
launched. So are many other major American cities.
Here are the skeletal details:

In 1994, DCN, the government-owned company that builds France's naval
vessels, agreed to help the Pakistanis build and learn to operate a
rather amazing shipyard. It was a next-generation facility building
next-tech, Agosta 90B stealth submarines. As of today two of these subs
have been built and a third is scheduled for launch by 2006.

Each Agosta 90B is able to carry sixteen Harpoon Stand-Off Land Attack
cruise missiles. According to the Pakistani Navy Captain Iftikhar Riaz
Qureshi, who commanded both of these subs in their test phases, Pakistan
purchased its Agosta 90Bs to provide itself with "second strike nuclear
capability." Qureshi's words imply that from day one, Pakistan's
intention has been to tip these missiles with atomic warheads. And guess
what? Since Pakistan tested its first nuclear bomb in 1998, every
nuclear device it's made has been a missile warhead.


According to Defence Journal, Pakistan's subs have a range of close to
twelve thousand miles.they can travel to the Hudson River or the
Chesapeake Bay, unleash their missiles on New York and Washington, then
still be able to take refuge in mid-ocean, lay low and threaten other
world capitals with a similar fate.

The United States operates a network of hydrophones scattered all over
the Atlantic and Pacific seabed. We are listening for subs like these.
But we may not be able to hear them. The Pakistani subs use a
methanol-and-liquid-oxygen engine bedded on a suspension system that
quiets its purr to a whisper. We may not be able to detect their silent
running beneath the sounds of zebrafish fanning their tails.

Many a Pakistani would love to see the nuclear destruction of America's
key cities. Pakistan has one of the most violently fundamentalist and
anti-American populations of any of the world's 57 Islamic states. And
that's saying something.

>From 1979 to 1995, Pakistan was the headquarters for a group of "Afghan
freedom fighters" who were not Afghans at all. They were an
international army paid for by the US, Saudi Arabia, and China, armed by
the CIA, and trained, in part, by China's Peoples Liberation Army. We
trained an army of 50,000 men from 30 nations to bring down the Soviet
Union's most advanced tanks, jets, and helicopters. Why? Our mutual goal
was to embarrass a common enemy--the Russians. Chief among the recruits
to our proxy Jihad were Osama bin Laden and the founding members of Al
Qaeda.

Pakistan is the nation whose citizens rioted in the streets in 1989 over
the title of a novel they didn't like--The Satanic Verses. It was
Pakistan's street activists who forced the Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a
Fatwa offering five million dollars to the Moslem who killed Salman
Rushdie. The Pakistanis were more extreme than the most extremist
Islamic leader of his day. And that was fifteen years ago! Since then
anti-Americanism and anti-Westernism has grown.


Pakistan is also the nation that educated a generation of Afghan
refugees who later went home to take over their country in the name of
Islamic purity and justice. We know those refugees as the Taleban.

Today Osama bin Laden is one of Pakistan's two biggest pop-culture
heroes. The other is "The Father of the Islamic Bomb", Dr Abdul Qadeer
Khan. Khan and Osama have reportedly met in Afghanistan. Khan is the
weapons expert. Osama is the weapons user.

Many a Pakistani militant fundamentalist cell identifies itself as an
Osama ally. One of the strongest among these Osama-loyalists is arguably
Pakistan's most popular leader, Fazlur Rahman Khalil, the man who told
60 Minutes that: "God has ordered us to build nuclear weapons."

On the other hand, the base of Pakistan's military dictator, Pervez
Musharraf, is a slender reed. According to Syed Adeeb, head of
Information Times, a militant Pakistani press outlet based in the
National Press Building in Washington DC, "an Urdu-language letter
written by Pakistan Army officers on a Pakistan Army letterhead and sent
to many members of the Pakistan Parliament" calls, "'Pervez Musharraf
and his clique.a band of thieves and looters.imposed on this nation'" by
the United States.

Adeeb himself calls Musharraf, "a self-appointed 'President,' military
dictator, army tyrant, human rights abuser, traitor and highly paid
mercenary of war criminal George W. Bush".

Musharraf has been the target of at least five assassination attempts.
The latest took place the very day Saddam Hussein was captured in
December 2003. Yet only he stands between Osama and the Islamic
submarines. Only Musharraf stands between Osama and the cruise missiles
Pakistan's subs can carry. And only Musharraf stands between Osama and
the 40 or more nuclear warheads Pakistan has built since it exploded the
first Islamic atomic bomb.


Which means that only Pervez Musharraf stands between Osama and what bin
Laden, in a January 2004 speech broadcast on Al Jazeera, called, "a
surprising blow.one that.due to its magnitude.will change the
international balances of powers.."

Here's what I strongly suspect is Osama's dream endgame: Nuke a few key
cities in the United States. Blind and devastate the Great Satan. Then
watch while France, Germany, Italy, and England capitulate. Capitulate
to what? To Osama's dream, his passion, his vision of truth and
freedom--to a global Islamic caliphate.

I want a world of peace. So do you. But until our understanding of
ourselves goes a good deal farther, we have to face the fact that we
live in a world of violence. If we pledge to remain non-violent, those
who've declared themselves our enemies and who love "death more than you
love life" will chuckle at our weakness.and use it to cheer their
comrades on to new atrocities. They will fight the battle of the
faithful and the good--the fight for what Osama calls "justice, manners,
and purity"-the battle for the truth of God's messenger. They will
assert the truth expressed by an al-Qaeda-allied author, Seif Al-Din
Al-Ansari, that we live on an expendable "speck of dust called Planet
Earth." They will use our reticence to make the mother of all wars. And
it will not be environmentally friendly.
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About the author, Howard Bloom
Howard Bloom, a visiting scholar at the Graduate Psychology Department
at New York University, is the author of two books: The Lucifer
Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History
("mesmerizing"-The Washington Post) and Global Brain: The Evolution of
Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century ("reassuring and
sobering"-The New Yorker). Bloom's writings have appeared in The
Washington Post, Wired, Knight-Ridder's Financial News Service, The
Village Voice, Cosmopolitan, Omni Magazine, New Ideas in Psychology, The
Independent Scholar, Across Species Comparisons and Psychopathology, and
in two book series: Research in Biopolitics and the Disinformation
Company's series of three books: You Are Being Lied To, Everything You
Know is Wrong, and Abuse Your Illusions.

In the 1980s Bloom tried to interest the press in doing a story about an
urgent problem, black on black genocide in Africa. He had media clout
and media influence, but he failed. The tribes he was alerting
journalists to were the Hutus and the Tutsis.

If the magazine publishers and TV producers Bloom spent time with had
covered the Hutu-Tutsi conflict, they could have saved a million lives.

In the 1990s and the year 2000, Bloom tried to warn the press and
America, through his books, The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain, and
through his radio and television interviews that militant Islam posed an
imminent danger. No one in power listened.

If they had, we could have prevented 9/11.

This time the cataclysm Bloom is warning about is nuclear. And this time
if no one listens, we may all have to kiss our lives good bye.
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