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| A Terror Strike, Choreographed on a Computer |
| 2006-07-03 |
| The bombs should be small and placed in day packs, making them harder to detect. The bombers should dress like tourists. They should not bother targeting hotels because security is too tight. Instead they should consider restaurants, discos and theaters. A thorough survey should be done in advance by the bombers themselves. That way, they are more familiar with the sites, and no one is left behind to be hunted later by the police. "There is no escape plan because the perpetrators will become martyrs," the planning document states. "They will go to the targets and not return." That is part of the playbook for a suicide bombing, including even a minute-by-minute choreography of the bombers' final hours. The Indonesian police uncovered the document from the computer of one of the planners of an attack last October in Bali, which killed 20 people when three men walked into separate restaurants and blew themselves up. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #6 Ahhh, God-based Spetznatz-Commandoes-Black Ops, sacrificing their lives and fighting for God-Islam, Prophet and Heaven, by allowing their Boss-men ["the Man] to officially pretend they're fighting for God while having an option to deny they are = are not. DO THE SILLY BOYZ ACTUALLY HAVE TO WONDER WHY ANNETTE BENNING IN "THE SIEGE" > "THEY [MUSLIMS]HAVE NO POWER [LIKE THE CHRISTIAN NATIONS]??? The world read of Zark's "death", but few iff any noticed God's "Norway Meteor"!? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-07-03 23:26 |
| #5 Targetting tourists is a losing strategy, because the locals depends on them for their livelihood Well, if the terrorists don't like the locals either, as was apparently the case in Bali, it can work for them. |
| Posted by: Phil 2006-07-03 09:13 |
| #4 terrorism is a losing strategy, period. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-07-03 08:53 |
| #3 Article: The 34-page document, titled "The Bali Project," was found on the computer of Azhari Husin, a Malaysian-born engineer educated in Australia and Britain who became a master bomb maker and was one of the most dangerous terrorists in Southeast Asia until he was killed in a shootout with the police last November. I recall reading that Azahari was a PhD in a subject where you really can't BS your way through, and where methodical planning and preparation is the name of the game. You gotta figure they're a lot weaker since Azahari was killed. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-07-03 08:53 |
| #2 Targetting tourists is a losing strategy, because the locals depends on them for their livelihood. If they stop coming, the anger will be directed at the terrorists. This is what happened in Egypt in the 1990s after the terror attacks against western tourists. The jihadis were rounded up by the regime and Ayman al-Z was filmed ranting in jail. Pity they didn't hang the turd. |
| Posted by: Apostate 2006-07-03 08:10 |
| #1 The backpacks with the bombs could be left on the bus — the police did not inspect baggage left on the bus, the team reported It's always the case. Somebody somewhere is cavalier with the security precautions and is the weak link that gets people killed. |
| Posted by: 2b 2006-07-03 07:30 |