Washington is laid to waste. The Capitol is a blackened, smoking ruin. The White House has been razed. Countless thousands are dead.
This is the apocalyptic scene terrorists hope to create if they ever get their hands on a nuclear bomb.
The computer-generated image below was posted on an Islamic extremists' website yesterday.
It appeared as rumours swept the Internet that the FBI was warning that an Al Qaeda video was about to be released urging militants to use weapons of mass destruction to attack the West.
The information was said to be coming from 'groups that monitor Islamic militant websites'.The FBI was quick to point out that it had not issued any warning and that the video was not an official Al Qaeda release through its media arm, Al Sahab, but simply an ' amateur' collection of old footage spliced together and posted on the Internet.
U.S. analysts said a lot of effort had been put into the video - entitled Nuclear Jihad, The Ultimate Terror - with graphics, music, and clips of different leaders and groups.
The same expertise seems to have gone into creating this image of a devastated Washington.
Al Sahab puts out more than 80 'officially sanctioned' videos a year to keep up the propaganda on the West. And the Internet shows how easy it is to stir up militancy. One message with the Washington picture said: 'The next strike's in the heart of America. When? When? When? And How?'
Last night FBI sources said Al Qaeda was desperate to get its hands on a weapon of mass destruction, be it nuclear, chemical, or biological.
So far that is only a dream... or, as this picture suggests, a nightmare.
Iran still developing nuclear weapons (RWC)
Iran will likely have the means to produce nuclear weapons before the end of this year, says Israeli Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz.
Mofaz is a former Israeli Defense Minister and was once chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Force.
He said, at a speech at Yale University, that Iran could possibly build nuclear arms within months.
He also said that any means of ensuring that Iran does not acquire nuclear weapons are valid.
“Israel will not tolerate a nuclear Iran, and I'd like to believe that the rest of the world will not allow it to happen.”
“All is fair in the efforts to make sure it doesn't."
He said the "Iranian regime is the number one threat to mankind in the 21st century.
“It is a multi-dimensional, multi-armed threat, which increases every day, every hour."
Ahmadinejad and Israeli's 60th Anniversary (RWC)
The mouthy Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has once again said that Israel will "be soon swept away."
It is the second time in the last couple of years that the Iranian president has predicted the eradication of the Jewish state.
Ahmadinejad seems to be playing with a shortage of marbles. He has recently claimed his country is being secretly led by the Islamic “Mahdi”, who has mysteriously returned across the centuries. As I recall, he is to make his appearance by popping out of a well.
About Israel’s 60th anniversary celebration, Ahmadinejad said last week:
"This terrorist and criminal state is backed by foreign powers, but it will soon be swept away by the Palestinians,"
“it would be futile to hold a birthday ceremony for something which is already dead."
The Iranian president said the anniversary celebrations can’t save this "rotten and stinking corpse." He meant Israel.
Ahmandinejad has said that the Jews in Israel should be sent to Europe or Alaska.
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