Right-Wing Exposed

Limbaugh, Hannity and other right-wing talk radio gurus regularly tell us that America has not had another terrorism attack on our soil since 9-11 due to the successful war on terror being waged by the Bush Administration.  They mention the Iraq War and the Patriot Act as major reasons for our respite from terror.  I believe that they will soon be forced to swallow their words, as America comes under the most devastating attack in our nation’s history; an attack that will prove the failure of President Bush’s anti-terror policies, including the Patriot Act and our invasion of Iraq.

It will be seven years this September since Al Qaeda’s previous assault on America.  Why is that significant?  The number seven is an extremely meaningful and important number in the Bible, the holy book for both Christians and Jews.  I believe that our enemy is planning a seven-year surprise for our nation.  Remember that Al Qaeda selected a significant American number, 9-11, for their previous attack.  I predict that this time their number will be “seven”, Christianity’s and Judaism’s special Biblical number.  I expect that Al Qaeda plans to present us with their version of a special seven-year anniversary gift; a colossal, devastating, nationwide attack producing hundreds of thousands of casualties.  And,  I would suggest that the exact date may very well be September 7th, 2008, seven years after 9-11.  Our enemy will probably declare their attack to be “pay-back” for our invasion of Iraq, and for our presence in general on Islamic soil.

Why am I making this daring prediction?  And, what do I think the attack will be?  I am making this prediction because I believe it will happen.  Al Qaeda has not forgotten about us; they still hate us intensely.  They have not decided to leave us alone, while attacking other locations around the globe.  Let us not forget that they refer to us as the “Great Satan”.  Moreover, the reason we have not been attacked thus far is not because of Bush’s Patriot Act, because random suicide bombers could have blown themselves up at various public venues numerous times since 9-11, as they have continued to do in many spots throughout the world.  And, Bush’s invasion of Iraq has only intensified their hatred of us, not mitigated it.  Yet, we have been “attack free” for over six years.  What’s going on?

Our enemy spent several years planning 9-11; an attack limited to a few targets in a couple of cities.  This time they’re planning something bigger.  This time it will be nationwide.  This time the casualties may number in the hundreds of thousands.  This time they want to crash our stock market and bring America to its knees.  This time they want to hit more than just America’s commerce and transportation industry.  This time they want to hit America’s lifestyle, its soul, and everything we hold dear.  This time they want to attack our religion, our recreation, our pastimes, as well as our transportation and commerce. 

What will the attack be?  I mentioned the fact that suicide bombers could have easily attacked our restaurants, hotels and other venues in the past, but they have completely refrained.  Why?  Suicide bomber attacks have been Al Qaeda’s favorite and most effective means of attack throughout the world.  And, America is their number one enemy.  Doesn’t it seem a bit peculiar that Al Qaeda has exempted their top enemy from their favorite and most effective method of terrorism?  There is only one logical answer.  They have not wanted to alert us in advance of what’s coming.  If they had used suicide bombers before in America, we would be “on the lookout” for them at our public gatherings.  We would have utilized special bomb detection devices at our public venues.  This would have prevented them from succeeding with a major terrorist attack of this nature.  However, America has “conveniently” never had a single suicide bombing attack, which has resulted in us not being “on alert” for them.  In other words, we are a ”sitting duck” for such an event as the one I’m about to describe.

September 7th, 2008, seven years after 9-11, just happens to be opening day for the National Football League, when stadiums across America will be filled to capacity.  At the same time, Major League Baseball will be entering the final weeks of the pennant races, when baseball stadiums will be jammed with fans.  September 7th of this year also happens to be on a Sunday, when “America’s religion”, Christianity, meets to worship in churches across our nation.  Furthermore, many of these churches are mega-churches with thousands of Christians packed shoulder to shoulder.  Sundays are also big days for amusement parks and shopping malls.  For terrorists who like significance, and who like to get their “bang for their buck”,  there could be no more effective time to simultaneously attack America’s religion, recreation, pastimes and commerce than on a Sunday in September, especially a Sunday that falls seven years after 9-11, on the 7th day of the month.

Imagine several hundred suicide bombers simultaneously detonating their bomb vests in sports stadiums, shopping malls, Christian mega-churches, amusement parks, hotels, restaurants, and airline, Amtrak and bus terminals in cities across America, including the normally safe and peaceful cities in the heartland of America, such as St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis etc.  The casualties could number in the hundreds of thousands, and our economy would come to a standstill, as people would be afraid to enter any and all public buildings, choosing to stay in the safety of their own homes.  Al Qaeda would have reserved their favorite method of terrorism, suicide bombing, for one simultaneous, unexpected, colossal, nationwide attack.  And, they would have pulled it off “under the radar” of Bush’s vaunted Patriot Act, as they patiently utilized face to face communications and hand-written notes that Bush’s wiretapping could not detect or stop.

I don’t want to be “chicken little”, but I do believe that a scenario similar to the one I’ve described is coming soon.  And, as the likes of Hannity and Limbaugh have been pointing to more than six years without an attack as being evidence that Bush’s strategies are working, the real truth is that Al Qaeda has been using this time to plan a terrorist event that will make 9-11 seem like a non-event by comparison.  Furthermore, Al Qaeda’s operatives have been spending their time “fitting in” with the environments that they will soon attack.  They have purchased season tickets and have been attending the games for the past two or three years at the stadiums they will bomb.  They have been weekly attendees at worship services at the mega-churches they will attack.  They have been regular patrons at the hotels, restaurants and shopping malls they will blowup.  They have become well-known and trusted in their environments, waiting for the precise moment when they will all simultaneously detonate their bomb vests on a day that may well be remembered and labeled as being “Black Sunday”.

If I am correct, and I fear that I am, this may well be the event that prompts us to bring our soldiers home from Iraq to protect our own cities.  This may well be the event that changes America’s foreign policy forever.  

I would be remiss if I did not at least touch on one of President Bush’s most controversial government policies, the “Patriot Act”. Bush claims that his Patriot Act, combined with his invasion of Iraq, has kept America free from terrorism since the September, 2001, attack. However, I must disagree. I believe that we shall soon see that all of Bush’s aggressive measures in Iraq and here in America with the Patriot Act, will not stop the massive, nationwide attack that is coming. I am convinced that Bush’s wiretapping of telephone and Internet communications will prove futile, because our enemy is not stupid. They are fully aware that such methods of communication can be monitored, and are probably only using them as decoys to divert our attention from their real operational plans.

We must remember that the 2001 terrorist strike against our nation had been in the planning stages for years. Our enemy is very patient. Bush’s claims are premature, to say the least. I suggest that our current respite from terrorism is not due to Bush’s aggressive, anti-terrorism offensive in Iraq or his vaunted Patriot Act. In fact, his aggressive efforts on Islamic soil have probably only increased Al Qaeda’s desire to bombard our nation and bring us to our knees, and Osama bin Laden has threatened another catastrophic attack upon the United States as punishment for Bush’s war on Iraq.

I believe that the primary reason for our brief respite from terrorist attacks in America is quite simply that our enemy is again patiently planning their attack; moreover, that their plans are much bigger and widespread than what we experienced in 2001. It is likely they are communicating and coordinating their plans via the slow but effective, old-fashioned method of “face to face” communications and hand-delivered messages, which is keeping their plans under the radar of Bush’s vaunted Patriot Act’s wiretapping.

I speculate that we are nearing an unprecedented, massive, nationwide terrorist strike on America that will prove that Bush’s “war on terrorism” has failed miserably, and has only served to increase the hatred of our enemies toward us. I fear that the following scenario will take place in America in the near future.

This nationwide attack may eventually be called “Black Sunday“, when many of America’s largest cities will concurrently come under attack by perhaps a thousand radical, Islamic suicide bombers. I suspect that the terrorists will target buses, airline terminals, Amtrak terminals, hotels, restaurants, shopping malls, amusement parks, sports stadiums and Christian megachurches. Sundays are huge attendance days for amusement parks, Major League Baseball and the National Football League, and are also the one day of the week when there are millions of Christians conveniently gathered tightly into megachurch buildings across America. Al Qaeda could not pick a better time to attack the religion, commerce and recreations of our nation.

Consider the impact of a thousand terrorists simultaneously detonating their “suicide bomb vests” in ten or twelve of America’s largest cities, from the east coast to the west coast, including the normally peaceful cities in the heartland. Furthermore, consider the impact of the wide array of venues being hit. People will not feel safe in hotels or restaurants, sports stadiums or amusement parks. They will not feel safe patronizing shopping malls or attending church. They will fear utilizing any method of mass-transit, whether bus, train or airplane. The all-encompassing scope of the attack will certainly produce a nationwide panic. Most Americans will simply stay at home, which will compound the devastating effect upon our economy. This nationwide panic, our crippled economy and hundreds of thousands of casualties throughout America, will force our government to bring our troops home to protect our own cities. America’s superpower status will be gone.

I strongly believe that a scenario similar to the one that I’ve described will soon take place. Why hasn’t there been one single suicide bombing in America, while they are happening regularly throughout the world? Could it be because the terrorists do not want to “tip us off” in advance, so that we would be able to anticipate and prepare for such attacks? Is it not probable that they are waiting to deliver a surprise attack of monumental impact and repercussions, such as the one that I’ve described?

If I am correct, and I fear that I am, we will soon experience a “Black Sunday” in America that will eclipse every other national tragedy and disaster that our nation has ever experienced. In one fatal moment, Al Qaeda will deliver what they consider to be payback to George W. Bush and his supporters. There will then be an outcry across America for drastic changes in our national policies, but not until we have suffered an enormous loss.