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Michael Scheuer, who once headed the CIA's bin Laden unit, says bin Laden has been given permission by a young cleric in Saudi Arabia authorizing al Qaeda to "use nuclear weapons against the United States ... capping the casualties at 10 million."

"He's had an approval, a religious approval for 10 million deaths?" I asked him.

"Yes," Scheuer responded.

Just a little Molotov cocktail, away from Versailles, so nothing to worry about, Pepe would say. As for JJ, we all know what he would say: have another ouzo, bud. I'll go with Jack D. Ripper: please make me a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater.