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Dodging the Nuclear 9/11 Dodging the Nuclear 9/11 Musharraf stands between Osama and what bin by Howard Bloom Laden, in a January 2004 speech broadcast on Al Jazeera, called, "a surprising blow…one www.howardbloom.net that…due to its magnitude…will change the international balances of powers…." Osama bin Laden may soon have his hands on Here's what I strongly suspect is three Agosta 90B next-generation stealth Osama's dream endgame: Nuke a few key cities submarines capable of carrying sixteen sea-to- in the United States. Blind and devastate the land cruise missiles each. Those missiles can Great Satan. Then watch while France, deliver atomic warheads. And Osama, I suspect, Germany, Italy, and England capitulate. will have access to the forty nuclear warheads Capitulate to what? To Osama's dream, his constructed by Pakistan. passion, his vision of truth and freedom--to a Washington and New York, two primary global Islamic caliphate. targets for Al Qaeda, are near bodies of water I want a world of peace. So do you. But from which these nuclear-tipped missiles can be until our understanding of ourselves goes a launched. So are many other major American good deal farther, we have to face the fact that cities. Laden and the founding members of Al Qaeda. we live in a world of violence. If we pledge to Here are the skeletal details: Pakistan is the nation whose citizens remain non-violent, those who've declared In 1994, DCN, the government-owned rioted in the streets in 1989 over the title of a themselves our enemies and who love "death company that builds France's naval vessels, novel they didn't like--The Satanic Verses. It more than you love life" will chuckle at our agreed to help the Pakistanis build and learn to was Pakistan's street activists who forced the weakness…and use it to cheer their comrades operate a rather amazing shipyard. It was a next- Ayatollah Khomeini to issue a Fatwa offering on to new atrocities. They will fight the battle of generation facility building next-tech, Agosta five million dollars to the Moslem who killed the faithful and the good--the fight for what 90B stealth submarines. As of today two of Salman Rushdie. The Pakistanis were more Osama calls "justice, manners, and purity"-the these subs have been built and a third is extreme than the most extremist Islamic leader battle for the truth of God's messenger. They scheduled for launch by 2006. of his day. And that was fifteen years ago! Since will assert the truth expressed by an al-Qaeda- Each Agosta 90B is able to carry sixteen then anti-Americanism and anti-Westernism has allied author, Seif Al-Din Al-Ansari, that we Harpoon Stand-Off Land Attack cruise missiles. grown. live on an expendable "speck of dust called According to the Pakistani Navy Captain Pakistan is also the nation that educated Planet Earth." They will use our reticence to Iftikhar Riaz Qureshi, who commanded both of a generation of Afghan refugees who later went make the mother of all wars. And it will not be these subs in their test phases, Pakistan home to take over their country in the name of environmentally friendly. purchased its Agosta 90Bs to provide itself with Islamic purity and justice. We know those "second strike nuclear capability." Qureshi's refugees as the Taleban. ABOUT HOWARD BLOOM words imply that from day one, Pakistan's Today Osama bin Laden is one of Howard Bloom, a visiting scholar at the intention has been to tip these missiles with Pakistan's two biggest pop-culture heroes. The Graduate Psychology Department at New York atomic warheads. And guess what? Since other is "The Father of the Islamic Bomb", Dr University, is the author of two books: The Pakistan tested its first nuclear bomb in 1998, Abdul Qadeer Khan. Khan and Osama have Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into every nuclear device it's made has been a reportedly met in Afghanistan. Khan is the the Forces of History ("mesmerizing"-The missile warhead. weapons expert. Osama is the weapons user. Washington Post) and Global Brain: The According to Defence Journal, Many a Pakistani militant Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to Pakistan's subs have a range of close to twelve fundamentalist cell identifies itself as an Osama the 21st Century ("reassuring and sobering"- thousand miles…they can travel to the Hudson ally. One of the strongest among these Osama- The New Yorker). Bloom's writings have River or the Chesapeake Bay, unleash their loyalists is arguably Pakistan's most popular appeared in The Washington Post, Wired, missiles on New York and Washington, then leader, Fazlur Rahman Khalil, the man who told Knight-Ridder's Financial News Service, The still be able to take refuge in mid-ocean, lay low 60 Minutes that: "God has ordered us to build Village Voice, Cosmopolitan, Omni Magazine, and threaten other world capitals with a similar nuclear weapons." New Ideas in Psychology, The Independent fate. On the other hand, the base of Pakistan's Scholar, Across Species Comparisons and The United States operates a network of military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, is a slender Psychopathology, and in two book series: hydrophones scattered all over the Atlantic and reed. According to Syed Adeeb, head of Research in Biopolitics and the Disinformation Pacific seabed. We are listening for subs like Information Times, a militant Pakistani press Company's series of three books: You Are Being these. But we may not be able to hear them. The outlet based in the National Press Building in Lied To, Everything You Know is Wrong, and Pakistani subs use a methanol-and-liquid- Washington DC, "an Urdu-language letter Abuse Your Illusions. oxygen engine bedded on a suspension system written by Pakistan Army officers on a Pakistan In the 1980s Bloom tried to interest the that quiets its purr to a whisper. We may not be Army letterhead and sent to many members of press in doing a story about an urgent problem, able to detect their silent running beneath the the Pakistan Parliament" calls, "'Pervez black on black genocide in Africa. He had sounds of zebrafish fanning their tails. Musharraf and his clique…a band of thieves media clout and media influence, but he failed. Many a Pakistani would love to see the and looters…imposed on this nation'" by the The tribes he was alerting journalists to were the nuclear destruction of America's key cities. United States. Hutus and the Tutsis. Pakistan has one of the most violently Adeeb himself calls Musharraf, "a self- If the magazine publishers and TV fundamentalist and anti-American populations appointed 'President,' military dictator, army producers Bloom spent time with had covered of any of the world's 57 Islamic states. And tyrant, human rights abuser, traitor and highly the Hutu-Tutsi conflict, they could have saved a that's saying something. paid mercenary of war criminal George W. million lives. From 1979 to 1995, Pakistan was the Bush". In the 1990s and the year 2000, Bloom headquarters for a group of "Afghan freedom Musharraf has been the target of at least tried to warn the press and America, through his fighters" who were not Afghans at all. They five assassination attempts. The latest took books, The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain, were an international army paid for by the US, place the very day Saddam Hussein was and through his radio and television interviews Saudi Arabia, and China, armed by the CIA, and captured in December 2003. Yet only he stands that militant Islam posed an imminent danger. trained, in part, by China's Peoples Liberation between Osama and the Islamic submarines. No one in power listened. Army. We trained an army of 50,000 men from Only Musharraf stands between Osama and the If they had, we could have prevented 30 nations to bring down the Soviet Union's cruise missiles Pakistan's subs can carry. And 9/11. most advanced tanks, jets, and helicopters. only Musharraf stands between Osama and the This time the cataclysm Bloom is Why? Our mutual goal was to embarrass a 40 or more nuclear warheads Pakistan has built warning about is nuclear. And this time if no one common enemy--the Russians. Chief among the since it exploded the first Islamic atomic bomb. listens, we may all have to kiss our lives good recruits to our proxy Jihad were Osama bin Which means that only Pervez bye. []