- Why hasn't Osama bin Laden's terror network executed
an attack on U.S. soil since 9-11?
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- Simple, says Dr. Jack Wheeler, creator of an acclaimed
intelligence website dubbed "the oasis for rational conservatives":
The U.S. has threatened to nuke the Muslim holy city of Mecca should the
terror leader strike America again.
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- On his website, To
the Point, Wheeler explains how the Bush administration has identified
the potential of wiping Mecca off the map as bin Laden's ultimate point
of vulnerability the Damoclean Sword hanging over his head.
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- "Israel recognizes that the Aswan Dam is Egypt's
Damoclean Sword," writes Wheeler. "There is no possibility whatever
of Egypt's winning a war with Israel, for if Aswan is blown, all of inhabited
Egypt is under 20 feet of water. Once the Israelis made this clear to the
Egyptians, the possibility of any future Egyptian attack on Israel like
that of 1948, 1967, and 1972 is gone."
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- Wheeler says talk of bin Laden's Damoclean Sword has
infiltrated the Beltway.
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- Writes Wheeler in his members-only column: "There
has been a rumor floating in the Washington ether for some time now that
George Bush has figured out what Sword of Damocles is suspended over Osama
bin Laden's head. It's whispered among Capitol Hill staffers on the intel
and armed services committees; White House NSC (National Security Council)
members clam up tight if you begin to hint at it; and State Department
neo-cons love to give their liberal counterparts cardiac arrhythmia by
elliptically conversing about it in their presence.
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- "The whispers and hints and ellipses are getting
louder now because the rumor explains the inexplicable: Why hasn't there
been a repeat of 9-11? How can it be that after this unimaginable tragedy
and Osama's constant threats of another, we have gone over three years
without a single terrorist attack on American soil?"
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- Available only to subscribers of To
the Point, Wheeler ends his column by explaining the effectiveness
of the Mecca threat.
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- "Completely obliterating the terrorists' holiest
of holies, rendering what is for them the world's most sacred spot a radioactive
hole in the ground is retribution of biblical proportions and those are
the only proportions that will do the job.
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- "Osama would have laughed off such a threat, given
his view that Americans are wussies who cut and run after a few losses,
such as Lebanon in 1983 and Somalia in 1993. Part of Bush's rationale for
invading Afghanistan and Iraq obviously never expressed publicly was
to convince Osama that his threat to nuke Mecca was real. Osama hates America
just as much as ever, but he is laughing no more."
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- Wheeler says bin Laden is "playing poker with a
Texas cowboy holding the nuclear aces," so there's nothing al-Qaida
could do that could come remotely close to risking obliterating Mecca.
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- Writes Wheeler: "So far, Osama has decided not to
see if GW is bluffing. Smart move."
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