Oder Aderet reports at Haaretz that the United States considered using nuclear weapons against Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attack according to Michael Steiner, who served as a political advisor to then-German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, as reported in Der Spiegel. "The papers were written," Steiner said when asked whether the U.S. had considered using nuclear weapons in response to the attacks orchestrated by Al-Qaida's Osama bin Laden, in which almost 3,000 people were killed. "They had really played through all possibilities." Steiner added that Schröder feared that the US, which was in a state of shock following the attacks, would overreact. "After Sept. 11, the entire administration positively dug in. We no longer had access to Rice, much less to the president. It wasn't just our experience, but also that of the French and British as well. Of course that made us enormously worried."
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2015, @08:47AM
And finally a reason to start deploying the authoritarian / police state. At least in Europe as far as I can see. Since 9/11, governments here finally found a stick to beat the dog with and populist, extreme right wing political parties have gained enormously, as has islamophobia. It seems not only the US have the terrorists won, but around the globe. What worries me most is that we may have the wrong idea who the terrorists really are.