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while not asked of me I would like to offer on teh Fundamentalism issue.


It would depends....If we are talking about fundamentalist with a apocaplicic ideal...then no. even Bin Laden does not seem to hold this view...Is he willing to die? yes...kill yes? have other Muslims die yes....have the middle east nuked....I would say no...If we are to listen to Yossef Bodansky...(Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the US House of Representatives from 1988 to 2004) then we have to believe that Bin Laden in fact have acquired at least 1 if not more Suitcase nukes. ( personally I find this Intel sketchy, and others within the CIA and Intel community of course don't agree with this claim) but if he did...the only reason he would not have used it yet, was the knowledge of the payback for such a attack. In fact , the stated reason for having the bomb in the first place was to prevent or retaliate against a US nuclear attack . I would have to go back to pull exact wording of couse, but I dont have the book with me right now. "Chechen Jihad: Al Qaeda's Training Ground and the Next Wave of Terror" in case you wanted to know.


So yes, even against Fundamentalist...so long as they dont have a death with for there nation...it works ( this sorta fits the sane part of my argument as well) I irrational or Fundamentalist with a death with ( or terrorist group  of them ) would have really nothing that could stop it...outside of kill them first such a defense they can try but will fail.


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