20-21 September 2006

Greetings, everybody! Well, after being away from everyone, that is, from blogging for two weeks, I'm back. We have been finally finishing a move of our office from one room of our house to another, with all sorts of meetings and distractions in between. I am really glad to be working at this new work station, for it has a lot more room, and doesn't have the feel of a dungeon in 140 deg. F. heat.

Speaking of feeling the heat, I have heard that a Pakistani journalist, Hamid Mir, has disclosed meetings that he has had with high-level Al Qaeda-Taliban leadership in the last week. Mr. Mir has had access to Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri on multiple occasions over the last decade and a half, and has been privy to information that heralded major attacks of the past: 9/11, Bali, the Kenya-Tanzania U.S. embassy attacks in 1998, to name a few examples. Now Mr. Mir has said that he was told on September 12th by the Al Qaeda field commander in Afghanistan that the next great attack on the United States is imminent. His story appears credible, especially since the leader of the attack is G. Adnan Shukrijamah, the recognized Al Qaeda leader for the Western Hemisphere, and it has been well-known in intelligence circles that Osama and Al Qaeda have planned suitcase nuclear attacks for years against 7-8 U.S. cities. Well, the date is so close at hand, according to Mr. Mir, that he was told to announce the attack and urge all Muslims living in the USA to leave, in order to escape becoming victims of these attacks.

Well, I cried 'wolf' about a possible strike by Hezbollah on August 22nd, so I'm a little gunshy. However, I think it's time for people to err on the side of caution, and listen to those public service announcements of having 3-7 days worth of non-perishable provisions and other supplies in the case of a disaster. Our open-like-a-sieve borders have been exploited at last, and any laws that may be passed to ensure border security are now probably too late. We will now become serious about the threat to us by radical Islamism. What a horrible way to finally realize our need to unite as a nation and change ourselves to meet and conquer this threat to our civilization.

If you are a praying person, go to it. If you're not, I suggest starting now. This is serious.

--Belisarius--