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2005-08-12 Home Front: WoT

FBI warns of possible terrorist attack in US around September 11

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Posted by tu3031 2005-08-12 11:47|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 How many of us have nightmare scenarios -- short of nuclear, and quite possible -- that we refuse to discuss out loud?

This comes quite close to mine.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-08-12 11:55|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-08-12 11:55|| Front Page Top

#2 Semis would work well too. There are a lot of things the terrorists could do, but haven't. Which makes me wonder how effective the cells in the US are now and how much they have been damaged by the WOT.

Posted by mmurray821 2005-08-12 11:57|| 2005-08-12 11:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Makes you want to go the Rumsfeld 11September Country Music Jamboree.

Posted by Throluter Creatch6468 2005-08-12 12:00|| 2005-08-12 12:00|| Front Page Top

#4 This is getting to be an annual tradition. Maybe they'll pop the champagne Sept. 12th like the 72 Miami Dolphins do when the last undefeated NFL team loses.

Posted by Chris W.">Chris W. 2005-08-12 12:05|| 2005-08-12 12:05|| Front Page Top

#5 "Attacks are planned specifically for New York, Chicago and Los Angeles,"

Somehow, I had a feeling it would be blue areas that would be primary targets.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-08-12 14:32|| 2005-08-12 14:32|| Front Page Top

#6 This is laughable. Ramming a gasoline tanker into a gas station is only going to cause a huge fire, primarily at the gas station and its next-door neighbors. And an oxygen tanker is even sillier -- oxygen is not a fuel and is not explosive. Its hazard is that it will cause a more-intense fire that air will, because the oxygen in air is diluted with nitrogen. Where's the fuel to go with it? In the underground tanks at the station? Finally, many of these tankers have double walls with insulation between them -- it's not like they're going to easily rupture widely by hitting some gas pumps or the gas station building. How often do you hear about tanker fires?

If this is the best AQ can do, they're not much of a threat to western civilization.

Posted by Darrell 2005-08-12 15:13|| 2005-08-12 15:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Ima worry more about choo choos with tank-cars of stuff.

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-12 15:42|| 2005-08-12 15:42|| Front Page Top

#8 So the official terrorism task force of the FBI comes up with the possibility of terrorist attacks around the anniversary of 9-11. Frigging brilliant. My dog could come up with that one for a lot less that the gov't can.

What we need is the public involved in civil defense. We have eyes and ears all over the country. That is how we watch for terrorists. We do not have the infinite resources to have the professionals protect us agains everything imaginable.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-08-12 15:55|| 2005-08-12 15:55|| Front Page Top

#9 They also picked up on July 4th and the whole Christmas shopping season (which now begins, I believe, on July 5th.)

What they need to do, actually, is get a big almanac called 'This Day in Islamic History' and find all the dates for battles fought centuries ago. Then they might have something less intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer.

Posted by eLarson 2005-08-12 17:27|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-08-12 17:27|| Front Page Top

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