Barack Obama Issues Al Qaeda Nuke Warning

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6:58am UK, Monday April 12, 2010

Andy Winter, Sky News Online
Al Qaeda "would have no compunction" using nuclear weapons if it could acquire them, US President Barack Obama has warned on the eve of a summit to secure the world's nuclear stockpile.

President Obama says securing loose nuclear arms is the most urgent issue

The Nuclear Security Summit of more than 40 world leaders in Washington this week is aimed at securing "loose nuclear material", Mr Obama said.

"The single biggest threat to US security, both short-term, medium-term and long-term, would be the possibility of a terrorist organisation obtaining a nuclear weapon," he said.

"This is something that could change the security landscape in this country and around the world for years to come."

He added: "If there was ever a detonation in New York City, or London, or Johannesburg, the ramifications economically, politically and from a security perspective would be devastating."

Mr Obama said organisations like al Qaeda are in the process of trying to secure nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction and "would have no compunction at using them".

He said other world leaders have offered "very specific approaches to how we can solve this profound international problem".

On Thursday, Mr Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev signed a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that reduces each side's deployed nuclear arsenal to 1,550 weapons.

The US President said securing loose nuclear arms was "a central part of the process, but probably the most urgent one and the one we are most concerned with in the short term".

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Joburg? :-/ Why would he mention Joburg after huge cities like New York and London... Does he know something we don't?
 
Jo'burg? :-/

Obama is the new, debonair, international, cosmopolitan president. He used JHB as an example of a major city and as a way to remind us that he remembers Africa. GWB would not have listed any cities and that shows how Obama is a more international president.
 
Obama the black bush :D

Rather Obama doing Bush better than Bush could :D

Joburg? :-/ Why would he mention Joburg after huge cities like New York and London... Does he know something we don't?

I think its maybe because of his private discussion earlier with Zuma and praising Zuma for South Africa for disarming its nukes.
 
Well Johannesburg is the most powerful city in Africa.

Also, I suppose he brought it up in the context of the Soccer World Cup coming up here as well.
 
Its also alot easier to deliver a nuke to JHB than it is London or New York
 
Lol JHB?? Hahaha I doubt that...
Hes just trying to globalise the "threat"
 
Probably JHB because of the upcoming world cup.

And weren't our nukes disabled before the anc came into power?
 
On Thursday, Mr Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev signed a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that reduces each side's deployed nuclear arsenal to 1,550 weapons.

Oh good. MUCH safer. :rolleyes:
 
Obama is the new, debonair, international, cosmopolitan president..

Indeed. He's paid a lot of attention to S.A no doubt. He used the same tactics to get into power as the ANC( hope/change, rise above mere politics...the usual BS). Hence why he's idol worshiped like Mandela by the lemmings over there.

Medvedev and Putin are on top in this relationship. :)

Of course. While allies like Brown are still trying to rub the dirt out of their eyes......

The recently deceased Polish ally, second only to the U.K, president Lech Kaczynski got his fair share of dirt in the face as well from Obama. Perhaps that's why he went to Russia in the first place because he now had to deal with the Kremlin mafia given he couldn't rely on the U.S anymore.
 
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Indeed. He's paid a lot of attention to S.A no doubt. He used the same tactics to get into power as the ANC( hope/change, rise above mere politics...the usual BS). Hence why he's idol worshiped like Mandela by the lemmings over there.



Of course. While allies like Brown are still trying to rub the dirt out of their eyes......

I think he'll be idol worshiped just because he's black. He'd first have to eat babies and kill puppies on live TV and they'd still be in awe of him :).

A lot of his international supporters are like that. They just want a non-white guy in power and anyone will do.
 
He mentioned JHB, because Zuma was sitting right next to him. Obama was blowing Zuma's horn, because SA were one of the first countries to dismantle its entire nuclear arsenal.

Not that Zuma or the ANC had anything to do with that mind you! It all happened in 1993.
 
Joburg? :-/ Why would he mention Joburg after huge cities like New York and London... Does he know something we don't?

Um, maybe because of the Soccer World Cup that is taking place here shortly?
 
I think he'll be idol worshiped just because he's black. He'd first have to eat babies and kill puppies on live TV and they'd still be in awe of him :).

A lot of his international supporters are like that. They just want a non-white guy in power and anyone will do.

Not quite. If he was a Republican he'd be considered a "house ******" as they like to call them.

But you're about eating babies. They still idol worship Mandela here and Mad Bob had to destroy his entire country before they turned on him......

He mentioned JHB, because Zuma was sitting right next to him. Obama was blowing Zuma's horn, because SA were one of the first countries to dismantle its entire nuclear arsenal.

Not that Zuma or the ANC had anything to do with that mind you! It all happened in 1993.

Irony is over 300 000 South Africans have died violent deaths since.:erm:
 
Obama, and every US president since Kennedy, was a corporate puppet. Obama preached 'change', but what change ? Obama is just continueing where Bush left off, he even makes Bush look good ! Obama promised to put an end Guantanomo Bay prison, end the war in Iraq and Afghanistan but in stead he has escalated. More trooops, more intervention and the loss of civil liberties in the USA.
In case you are still in support of American agression, what would you have done if someone forcefully with guns and much more firepower than you came squatting on your land: Taking your crops/oil, killing your family, destroyed what little property you have, think of you as backwards and retarded, kills members of you clan/countrymen (whether accidental or on purpose), no respect for your customs, etc ? You'd be outraged. You'd think of ways to take revenge.

The ignorant public, that knows nothing about economic, would think that saving banks (bailouts) was good for the economy - saving jobs - in effect made things worse. Let failed companies fail and let well run efficient and profitable ones take their place. Let capitalism and the free market work !

The way all empires end. The last few years/decades of an empire is all-out war until it's wars bankrupt them. For the USA it will be no different.

In case you don't know (or even you don't understand what it is) but the USA has so much foreign debt (bonds) that it's now more risky to borrow money to the US Government than to a company like Berkshire Hathaway (managed by the most wealthy man on the planet, Warren Buffet).
Expect the USA to default in some way within the next 5 years. Because then most of their debts is due to be refinanced, which they can't afford.
The US has so much debt that the only way they can pay is either to default on their debts (declare bankruptcy) or by hyper inflation (like Zimbabawe).
The USG is paying their debts with their own printed money, inflation.

South African (ANC) government is making some of the same mistakes. Handouts, debt, pawning the future of your children, socialist ideals, cronies, it's starting to resemble a Cleptocracy like Haiti The mistake one can make is to have trust in government and politicians 'to do the right thing'.

If just have a look at the following video's and documents from Dr. Ron Paul, one of a few honest politicians on the planet. I wish we had a Ron Paul in South Africa.

Ron Paul's 2002 predictions (on Iraq, USA and world economy came true)


Ron Paul - "What if..."
 
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