Jihadi Du Jour: See the mushroom?

Al Qaeda’s warning to Muslims to leave the United States could prove true. Muslim guerillas have no record of bluffing. In Arab mentality, private honesty is non-existent, but public image must be sustained at any cost. Arabs are often truthful in their public pronouncements.

The warning immediately followed the North Korean nuclear test. The Korean communists acted entirely unreasonably, and predictably angered China, their main sponsor. North Korea could ask the world community for just any aid in return for abandoning the nuclear test; it didn’t.

The North Koreans exploded an unusually small bomb – too small if they wanted to build up their military image. The test could be intended for a customer.

Would the North Korea risk selling nuclear weapons to terrorists? After attack, the seller would be obvious. North Korean rulers need cash, and don’t care about retribution against their people. Quite possibly, North Korea undertook to sell nuclear weapons in exchange for A.Q.Khan’s assistance in their nuclear program. Khan, ousted from the Pakistani nuclear conglomerate under the US pressure, definitely wants revenge.

Al Qaeda first warnings of massive attacks came about the same time when North Korea produced its first enriched uranium or plutonium. Bin Laden offered himself as spiritual guide to the Americans to convert to Islam. He asked the US to withdraw from the Muslim territories. Later, he offered truce. Finally, he told the fellow Muslims to flee. Bin Laden exonerated himself before a major attack.

Given a chance of nuclear attack against the US, what is to be done? Analysts are probably checking now C-130 plane flights from Pakistan to North Korea in the recent days. Customers took a plane. Checking the massive ($100mil+) cash withdrawals from bank accounts is also worthwhile. The major thing, however, is counter-threat.

The United States must issue the ultimatum: in case of nuclear attack, it won’t search for the perpetrators, but inflict reciprocal damage. Mecca is the American best defense and the dream hostage. Pass a law or at least issue executive order than the US would annihilate Mecca after any terrorist nuclear attack on the American soil. Including in the list a couple of other cities, like Hyderabad and Teheran, is useful, but not essential. Mecca is critical for Shiites and Sunnis, Saudis and Pakistanis. Muslim terrorists could not afford to be blamed for annihilation of Mecca.

Labels: American Hiroshima, North Korea, Nuclear Terrorism, Nuclear Threat