The Muslim's Secret Plans for a Jihad (Holy War) against Us...
Col. Stanislav Lunev Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2001
MEMO TO: President George W. Bush
FROM: Col. Stanislav Lunev (The highest ranking defecting Soviet spy.)
DATE: Oct. 16, 2001
RE: Prevent the Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction
In September, just over a month ago, international terrorists used the "cheapest" way to attack America – hitting symbols of American financial and military power. By doing this, the terrorists have demonstrated to the world just how vulnerable we are. Their success is now a powerful symbol to others – America can be hit by the "weak" at its very center.
The arrest of more than 600 people here in the U.S. over the last month suggests that terrorists number in the thousands or even tens of thousands. Some "experts" have argued that we have seen the worst. Had the terrorists really possessed nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, they surely would have used these first. Such thinking is wrong and dangerous.
Remember, the terrorists of Sept. 11 and their network members were no amateurs. They hatched their plan over years and trained well for it. They used "cheap" weapons not because they did not have "expensive" weapons of mass destruction; all evidence indicates they have such weapons. The terrorists also have the resources to buy them. Even President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt told journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave that Osama bin Laden has as much a $1 billion in assets from his opium trade. Bin Laden also has the backing of one or more rogue nations, including Iraq.
It has been reported that Israel’s Mossad has evidence that bin Laden’s organization obtained several tactical nuclear weapons using Russian "mafia" intermediaries. For sure, Russian mafia actions would have the full backing of the Russian intelligence agencies and government. So the answer is yes, these terrorists could have hit New York with a weapon of mass destruction, but they chose not to. Why not?
I believe bin Laden, and perhaps his backers, want a much bigger war. They most certainly want to destroy America – at least its financial power and its military might. Bin Laden wants a war between Islam and the West. Other nations, such as Russia or Red China, also want to see the U.S. brought to its knees – but for different reasons.
The terrorists and their backers understand that wars do not happen in vacuums or materialize out of nothing. These evil people are clever.
Bin Laden wants to win the hearts and minds of the ordinary Muslim. Of the 1 billion Muslims on earth, only 100 million are fundamentalist, and many of these don’t agree with bin Laden’s own fundamentalist views. But to unite the Muslim/Arab world, to bring all fundamentalists together with the many secular Muslims, America must be perceived as the aggressor, victimizing Muslims. To a degree, bin Laden has achieved this. He has shown to the rogue nations, the fundamentalists, and others that using nothing more than box cutters, he can make huge strikes into the very heart of America.
Now, with America’s justified bombing of targets in Afghanistan, bin Laden and his allies will try to turn the tables on America. No doubt our bombings, as strategic and surgical as they may be, will be played up in the Arab press as "America, the evil aggressor" – killing innocent poor people in Afghanistan for the actions of some crazy terrorists. If that perception becomes strong in Arab and other countries, bin Laden has laid the groundwork for more "expensive" strikes against America.
Had bin laden and his backers used a weapon of mass destruction on Sept. 11, this act would have most assuredly backfired and led to his loss of support among the Muslim faithful. But since Sept. 11, the Arab press has been rife with reports of Americans mistreating people of the Muslim faith (which we know to be untrue). With the advent of the bombing campaign, his open Al-Qaeda network has released statements saying, through Al-Jazeera, that they will counterattack with bigger attacks against America because they are now justified, in their minds and the minds of many Muslims, in doing so.
How do we prevent such weapons from being used against us? Right now, there is no way to assure America that such weapons will not be used. We must be honest and admit that time may have already run out. The terrorists have had a huge time advantage over us. They had almost the whole past 10 years to move without sanction from the U.S. government. For all practical purposes, these terrorists may have already deployed weapons of mass destruction here.
My experience in Russia’s GRU led me to believe that Russia had already deployed small suitcase bombs into the U.S. This is not so difficult and was even easy under the previous administration. Already, you are doing many wise things. You understand it is important for America not to play bin Laden’s game and not to go to war with Islam. You understand the importance of re-creating America’s intelligence capabilities. Still, these are proactive measures that may not prevent a weapon of mass destruction from being used.
Already, I have encouraged you to warn all backers of Al-Qaeda, including any and all backers of terrorist groups and nations, including Iraq, Iran, Syria and others, that the use of weapons of mass destruction on American soil will cause the U.S. to use such weapons against any and all backers of these terrorists. You should tell them the U.S. will retaliate without investigation and go after "likely suspects."
As terrible as this sounds, it should be done because the terrorists and their backers believe they can strike America with impunity because they have "distance" from these acts. They don’t believe that if they hit New York with a nuclear weapon, the U.S. will hit Baghdad or other centers. America must quickly disabuse these nations of this. You should not just warn rogue nations, you must have your Pentagon begin to prepare to use such weapons against these nations. If you do, the many spies in the U.S. government will report back to rogue nations that you are serious and if a weapon of mass destruction is used against America, you will respond with fury. Then no one will be safe. I can assure you that this will be unsettling to America’s enemies.
In the early 1960s, President John Kennedy was faced by a similar nuclear threat from rogue nation Cuba. Kennedy did not warn Castro that he would hit Cuba if the U.S. was so attacked. Kennedy went right for the jugular. He warned Nikita Khrushchev in no uncertain terms that any nuclear attack by Cuba on the U.S. would require a "full retaliatory" strike at Soviet Union. When the Soviets heard the "bad news," that Kennedy was not going to be a pushover, weapons of mass destruction were immediately removed from Cuba.
You must emulate Kennedy now. You should do so sooner than later.
Col. Stanislav Lunev Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2001
MEMO TO: President George W. Bush
FROM: Col. Stanislav Lunev (The highest ranking defecting Soviet spy.)
DATE: Oct. 16, 2001
RE: Prevent the Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction
In September, just over a month ago, international terrorists used the "cheapest" way to attack America – hitting symbols of American financial and military power. By doing this, the terrorists have demonstrated to the world just how vulnerable we are. Their success is now a powerful symbol to others – America can be hit by the "weak" at its very center.
The arrest of more than 600 people here in the U.S. over the last month suggests that terrorists number in the thousands or even tens of thousands. Some "experts" have argued that we have seen the worst. Had the terrorists really possessed nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, they surely would have used these first. Such thinking is wrong and dangerous.
Remember, the terrorists of Sept. 11 and their network members were no amateurs. They hatched their plan over years and trained well for it. They used "cheap" weapons not because they did not have "expensive" weapons of mass destruction; all evidence indicates they have such weapons. The terrorists also have the resources to buy them. Even President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt told journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave that Osama bin Laden has as much a $1 billion in assets from his opium trade. Bin Laden also has the backing of one or more rogue nations, including Iraq.
It has been reported that Israel’s Mossad has evidence that bin Laden’s organization obtained several tactical nuclear weapons using Russian "mafia" intermediaries. For sure, Russian mafia actions would have the full backing of the Russian intelligence agencies and government. So the answer is yes, these terrorists could have hit New York with a weapon of mass destruction, but they chose not to. Why not?
I believe bin Laden, and perhaps his backers, want a much bigger war. They most certainly want to destroy America – at least its financial power and its military might. Bin Laden wants a war between Islam and the West. Other nations, such as Russia or Red China, also want to see the U.S. brought to its knees – but for different reasons.
The terrorists and their backers understand that wars do not happen in vacuums or materialize out of nothing. These evil people are clever.
Bin Laden wants to win the hearts and minds of the ordinary Muslim. Of the 1 billion Muslims on earth, only 100 million are fundamentalist, and many of these don’t agree with bin Laden’s own fundamentalist views. But to unite the Muslim/Arab world, to bring all fundamentalists together with the many secular Muslims, America must be perceived as the aggressor, victimizing Muslims. To a degree, bin Laden has achieved this. He has shown to the rogue nations, the fundamentalists, and others that using nothing more than box cutters, he can make huge strikes into the very heart of America.
Now, with America’s justified bombing of targets in Afghanistan, bin Laden and his allies will try to turn the tables on America. No doubt our bombings, as strategic and surgical as they may be, will be played up in the Arab press as "America, the evil aggressor" – killing innocent poor people in Afghanistan for the actions of some crazy terrorists. If that perception becomes strong in Arab and other countries, bin Laden has laid the groundwork for more "expensive" strikes against America.
Had bin laden and his backers used a weapon of mass destruction on Sept. 11, this act would have most assuredly backfired and led to his loss of support among the Muslim faithful. But since Sept. 11, the Arab press has been rife with reports of Americans mistreating people of the Muslim faith (which we know to be untrue). With the advent of the bombing campaign, his open Al-Qaeda network has released statements saying, through Al-Jazeera, that they will counterattack with bigger attacks against America because they are now justified, in their minds and the minds of many Muslims, in doing so.
How do we prevent such weapons from being used against us? Right now, there is no way to assure America that such weapons will not be used. We must be honest and admit that time may have already run out. The terrorists have had a huge time advantage over us. They had almost the whole past 10 years to move without sanction from the U.S. government. For all practical purposes, these terrorists may have already deployed weapons of mass destruction here.
My experience in Russia’s GRU led me to believe that Russia had already deployed small suitcase bombs into the U.S. This is not so difficult and was even easy under the previous administration. Already, you are doing many wise things. You understand it is important for America not to play bin Laden’s game and not to go to war with Islam. You understand the importance of re-creating America’s intelligence capabilities. Still, these are proactive measures that may not prevent a weapon of mass destruction from being used.
Already, I have encouraged you to warn all backers of Al-Qaeda, including any and all backers of terrorist groups and nations, including Iraq, Iran, Syria and others, that the use of weapons of mass destruction on American soil will cause the U.S. to use such weapons against any and all backers of these terrorists. You should tell them the U.S. will retaliate without investigation and go after "likely suspects."
As terrible as this sounds, it should be done because the terrorists and their backers believe they can strike America with impunity because they have "distance" from these acts. They don’t believe that if they hit New York with a nuclear weapon, the U.S. will hit Baghdad or other centers. America must quickly disabuse these nations of this. You should not just warn rogue nations, you must have your Pentagon begin to prepare to use such weapons against these nations. If you do, the many spies in the U.S. government will report back to rogue nations that you are serious and if a weapon of mass destruction is used against America, you will respond with fury. Then no one will be safe. I can assure you that this will be unsettling to America’s enemies.
In the early 1960s, President John Kennedy was faced by a similar nuclear threat from rogue nation Cuba. Kennedy did not warn Castro that he would hit Cuba if the U.S. was so attacked. Kennedy went right for the jugular. He warned Nikita Khrushchev in no uncertain terms that any nuclear attack by Cuba on the U.S. would require a "full retaliatory" strike at Soviet Union. When the Soviets heard the "bad news," that Kennedy was not going to be a pushover, weapons of mass destruction were immediately removed from Cuba.
You must emulate Kennedy now. You should do so sooner than later.
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