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Countdown To Terror?

I received an advert for this book from Townhall.com, and was wondering if anyone has heard about any of the information contained in it? I'm not familiar with Congressman Weldon, so I'm curious.

The ad copy is in the extended entry.

Comments, thoughts, all appreciated.

Dear Fellow American:

You would think that after the horror of 9/11 the U.S. intelligence community would be chasing down every lead to protect us -- but they're not.

A prominent member of Congress has credible evidence that a member of the "Axis of Evil" is planning major attacks on the U.S.

Our intelligence services are outright ignoring this specific threat.

My name is Tom Winter. In the 30 years I have been covering Washington politics, I have never read anything as chilling as Countdown to Terror.

I knew immediately that this critical information needed to be spread as far as possible. That is why I decided to offer you a free copy of Countdown to Terror when you sign-up for a risk-free trial to HUMAN EVENTS.

Never before has such "real time" war-related intelligence from an impeccable clandestine source been publicly disclosed.

Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA), the Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, wrote this book because, in his own words:

"This book is an act of desperation . . . because I could not get our intelligence community to act on it, though my source has proven his credibility . . . "

Not long after 9/11, Congressman Weldon found himself on the front lines of the War on Terror, enmeshed in international intrigues with spies and killers. He learned about plots to assassinate world figures (including a former U.S. President) and of a plot to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans by radiation poisoning.

Ultimately, he would discover a still more audacious plot -- one that is still unfolding.

It's a plan by Iran to inflict a terrorist attack on the United States -- an attack of such catastrophic dimensions that it is code-named after Shi'ite Islam's 12th Imam: the prophet of doom who ushers in the Islamic apocalypse.

Amazing as it might seem, our Intelligence Community -- the CIA, the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency -- has met Weldon's discovery with yawns, bureaucratic inertia, and even active attempts to silence Weldon's source.

The fact that the information came from an Iranian with contacts throughout the highest levels of the Iranian mullahocracy meant nothing to them.

What is the intelligence community doing to prevent the 12th Imam operation? Nothing. They are, in fact, ignoring it.

After eight years of deep slashes in our defense and intelligence budgets by Slick Willie and his gang, decades of strategically disastrous over-reliance on technical rather than human intelligence, and a tendency towards politically correct groupthink, our nation's intelligence agencies are in deep trouble -- and all of us are at risk.

In addition, Congressman Weldon reveals that even in the aftermath of 9/11 and the Bush administration's 9/11 Commission our country's intelligence services have so far failed in their task of protecting us from future threats.

Let's fervently hope that Countdown to Terror serves as the wake-up call the intelligence community so desperately needs: our very survival could depend on it. May this book make our leaders angry . . . angry enough to act -- and to save American lives.

Among Weldon's shocking revelations you will find:

* Straight from the source, "The 12th Imam is like your Christian Apocalypse..." and it will be "bigger than 9/11"

* Weapons of Mass Destruction: how near Iran is to the atomic bomb, to biological and chemical weapons -- and how much of this new weaponry the mullahs plan to share with terrorists

* Evidence that Osama Bin Laden was or is hiding in Iran as an honored guest

* Revealed by Weldon's Iranian contact and proven true: the terrorist plot to hijack a Canadian airliner and fly it into the Seabrook nuclear reactor near Boston -- which would have killed hundreds of thousands of American

* Iraq: the operations planned against U.S. troops there -- designed to replace a new democratic Iraq with an Islamic state

* International Terrorism: terror operations that are in the works against U.S. allies in Europe and Asia

* Assassinations: whom Islamic terrorists are targeting -- plus the operational details

Weldon's revelations don't end there. You will also discover more details about the true nature of the threat against our country and what we need to do now to thwart the danger, such as:

* Incredible details of how the CIA asked French Intelligence to silence Weldon's Iranian source -- and warned the source to shut his mouth and stop talking to Curt Weldon

* Four potentially fatal weaknesses in our intelligence community that must be addressed soon -- before disaster strikes

* Why the intelligence community does not want to become entangled with the Iranian counter-revolutionary movement

* The secret organization headed by Iran's Ayatollah Khameni that plans international terrorist operations involving al Qaeda and other major terror groups -- making Iran the world's leading sponsor of international terrorism

* How September 11 showed that terrorists have ample knowledge of our intelligence community's incompetence

* The recent fatwa by a fanatical Saudi cleric giving Osama Bin Laden permission to use nuclear weapons: how it may signify the beginning of an operation to explode an atomic bomb in New York or some other large city

* Why the Clinton Administration bears much of the responsibility for the incompetence of our intelligence community

* The 9/11 Commission: its discovery of three big problems in the intelligence community that contributed to the catastrophe of 9/11 -- and that continue to imperil our national security

* How the Clinton Administration's political corruption of the intelligence community destroyed the careers of patriots and put us all at grave risk today

* Weldon's grand strategy for winning the war on terrorism -- including an alliance with a country that may surprise you, and many other much-needed measures

Posted by Ithildin at June 15, 2005 10:39 AM | PROCURE FINE OLD WORLD ABSINTHE