February 8, 2002...Al-Qaeda's second strike

If you were watching the Winter Olympic opening ceremonies on television you will never for the scene for the rest of your life.

The beauty of the ceremonies...the athletes marching through the stadium...and then the climax. The camera shows President Bush in the stands with some of the athletes...and then cuts back to the track, showing the small Lebanese delegation. Suddenly, the Lebanese flag-carrier stops, puts down his flag, and shouts out defiantly in Arabic "Long live Osama Bin Laden and the gallant fighters of Al-Qaida"...and before he can be stopped presses a button on the watch around his wrist...

Which is the last we see before our televisions lose the signal, as the stadium and all around it for a distance are vaporized in a nuclear explosion later estimated at 100 kilotons.

Personally, I don't think something like this could happen unless you have an extraordinarily stroke of luck a la Tom Clancy's The Sum of All Fears (the book, of course; I won't even begin to justify the movie). such a device went off at something like Salt Lake City, it would most likely be a variation of the "dirty nuke" concept: small yield, a lot of local damage, many deaths but nothing really apocolyptic.

However, given that this is done by al-Qāʿidah at the Olympic Games of all times and places . . . :eek:

Guaranteed, whatever popular support bin Laden et al would possess after this would be probably taking a huge nose-dive. And whatever retaliation that would result from this would not be condemned, even from traditionally "anti-American hegemony" nations such as China.

As for Iraq, though . . .
 
to make it inspiring in its depth of horror, the athletes with the mini football are on the British team :eek:


the odd sound you hear is Lance Armstrong growing back a testicle and looking for the damn sunscreen.
 

Pangur

Donor
Not the Lebanonese

`North Korean.

The Dear Leader was mad that nobody was paying attention to him, and his ego demanded that the spotlight return to its proper position over Best Korea.'


Yep, that would have worked - for a very short while - the spot light would have been a couple of MegaTonne!

Would it possible to get a nuke in to the US and then in to Salt Lake, got to say yes and my reasoning is as follows; They are not that big and as it stands very few countries have the abiity to check every single container coming in to their country and secondly just how hard would it be to shield a nuke from NEST's survielence?
 
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