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Home Front: WoT
FBI, NYPD Investigate New Terror Threat Graphic Mentioning NYC
2012-04-03
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A computer graphic warning that al-Qaeda will return soon to New York City has been posted on an internet site linked to the terror organization, and the NYPD and FBI say they are investigating.

The graphic was posted on a radical overseas website and shows the city skyline and reads: "Al Qaeda Coming Soon Again in New York." 
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  I'd have done similar as Saddam. Watch the expensive buildup, then concede issues for peace and the buildup ether costs a fortune or is pulled back.

Try it again and again and waste Uncle Sams time and money.

Of course I'm not a member of an honor/shame society. I'd rather win a war. Convincing the other guy it costs too much is one way of winning.

And if I blew it and the Yanks invaded, well then I'm in the same situation as Saddam ended up.
Posted by: Rjschwarz   2012-04-03 18:25  

#4  If I were Al Queda I'd make a few graphics like this and force massive wasting of resources trying to stop it. Couple of hints and threats could cost millions. Then release something suggesting CIA fabricated the terror threats to build on fears.

After a few years nobody would be paying attention because of the amount of false positives. Then you do whatever.

I believe they tried that with airlines for awhile. Whether or not they figured the system or are afraid of scanners who knows.
Posted by: Rjschwarz   2012-04-03 18:22  

#3  The Western response to an attack on the scale of Pearl Harbor has been a counterinsurgency strategy trying to win hearts and minds.

The West left the moderate Taliban in power even though the Taliban were an undisputed state sponsor of the 9/11 attacks. Now we're begging the radical Taliban to come to the negotiating table, to haggle over danegeld.

Why should any rational hostile state actor fear the consequences of sponsoring an attack on the West?
Posted by: Spanky Clunk5814   2012-04-03 16:51  

#2  Yet not lynch mobs operating in Florida?
Posted by: newc   2012-04-03 01:50  

#1  Can al Qaeda afford to visit New York again? Last time, it cost them Afghanistan and Iraq.
Posted by: SteveS   2012-04-03 01:00  

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