Hello...

My husband wrote me today about an article that another inmate read. It was from a Chinese newspaper, very recent. According to the article, Al Queda Terroists have approximately seven nuclear weapons they control here in the U.S. and on "The Feast Day" they will all be detonated.

Now, don't think I'm some fatalist, conspiracy theory junkie but I have trouble believing this. ALthough, everyone didn't believe the attack on the WTC would happen. My question is twofold if any of you have any information or thoughts on this subject.

1. Has anyone ever heard about these Al Queda nuclear weapons on US soil?

2. If such a thing was to happen and our country was placed under martial law, what happens to the prisoners here in america? Rumors run rampant in my husband's facility, among them: All the guards will leave to be with their families. The U.S. government will enact a long forgotten right and execute all prisoners. The government will pardon all prisoners. The prisoners will leave their facilities now that the guards have left, and may or may not be subject to escapee punishment.

My husband was worried over this, has been for a while. He wrote of different scenarios of getting back to me. Hiking for six days to make it to Vegas among them.

I don't want to worry over this, but if such a thing were to happen, I'm sure I wouldn't be alone in that worry or the travesty.

Any thoughts and information would be helpful.
Thank you.

All of bin Laden's messages have a consistent theme, emotional tone and logic. All are about reciprocity, expressed in many different ways. The message from Nov. 12, 2002, began, "The road to safety begins by ending the aggression. Reciprocal treatment is part of justice. The incidents that have taken place ... are only reactions and reciprocal actions. "


I have not heard one commentator address this. Ironically, the AOL headline for these excerpts said, "Bin Laden vows to attack." That is not quite accurate.

As for nukes, on Nov. 11, 2001, Bin Laden said that he had nuclear weapons. He said that he was holding them only as a deterrent, and that he had no intention of using them unless we did. If the U.S. used them, he would reserve the right to use them in retaliation.

As for targets, on Oct 6, 2002, Osama said: "By God, the youths of God are preparing for you things that would fill your hearts with terror and target your economic lifeline, until you stop your oppression and aggression against Muslims."


Again, news reports said bin Laden was threatening our economic lifeline, and planning an attack. All omitted the conditionality in the end of the sentence: "So let America increase the pace of this conflict or decrease it, and we will respond in kind."


The November 12th tape said, "If you were distressed by the deaths of your men ... remember our children who are killed in Palestine and Iraq everyday ... Why should fear, killing, destruction, displacement, orphaning and widowing continue to be our lot, while security, stability and happiness be your lot? This is unfair. It is time we get even. You will be killed just as you kill, and will be bombed just as you bomb.''


That is reality, like it or not. Lest I be called an Osama Bin Laden lover, let me point out that I was writing articles against him back in the '80's, when he was being funded by the CIA. I was also writing articles in my newsletter against Sadam Hussane when the U.S. was giving him military assistance at the same time he was gassing his own people.
We reap what we sow.

Bin Laden may or may not have nukes. He says he won't use them unless we do. But that idot Bush is likely to use the new generation of tactical nukes to bust a bunker in Iraq and then all bets will be off.