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2007-08-09 Home Front: WoT
NYT: "If You Were a Terrorist, How Would You Attack?"
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Posted by lotp 2007-08-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ]  Top

#1 I'd blowup the New York Times and machinegun anybody that crawled out of the wreckage...
Posted by tu3031 2007-08-09 00:29||   2007-08-09 00:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Trolling for ideas?
Posted by Mike Al Moore & the DNC 2007-08-09 00:35||   2007-08-09 00:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Humans tend to overestimate small probabilities, so the fear generated by an act of terrorism is greatly disproportionate to the actual risk.

Unless we happpen to have some facilitating asshole that just can't resist helping the enemy.

Third, unless terrorists always insist on suicide missions (which I can’t imagine they would)

Shows what this traitorous fuckwit knows.

Fourth, I think it makes sense to try to stop commerce, since a commerce breakdown gives people more free time to think about how scared they are.

Keep it up with the enemy’s talking points, you asshole.

Fifth, if you really want to impose pain on the U.S., the act has to be something that prompts the government to pass a bundle of very costly laws that stay in place long after they have served their purpose (assuming they had a purpose in the first place).

How about: Fifth, you STFU and stop abetting our worst foes? Ever wonder why our government has to pass so many restrictive laws? Look in the mirror you fucking asshole!

My general view of the world is that simpler is better. My guess is that this thinking applies to terrorism as well. In that spirit, the best terrorist plan I have heard is one that my father thought up after the D.C. snipers created havoc in 2002. The basic idea is to arm 20 terrorists with rifles and cars, and arrange to have them begin shooting randomly at pre-set times all across the country. Big cities, little cities, suburbs, etc. Have them move around a lot. No one will know when and where the next attack will be. The chaos would be unbelievable, especially considering how few resources it would require of the terrorists. It would also be extremely hard to catch these guys. The damage wouldn’t be as extreme as detonating a nuclear bomb in New York City, of course; but it sure would be a lot easier to obtain a handful of guns than a nuclear weapon.

Clueless? This turd is totally fucking clueless. No, small-scale chaos has almost nothing to do with real terrorism. Large-scale civilian deaths and total mayhem are their goals. Your malicious nattering only provides motives and goals for the run-of-the-mill Sudden Jihad Syndrome™ sort of goat-fucker.

I’m sure many readers have far better ideas.

Yeah, but the vast majority of them have the decency and—incidentally— more than two neurons to rub together whereby they don’t publish their speculation in an national rag. Unlike certain other unhelpful assholes that spring to mind.
Posted by Zenster 2007-08-09 00:48||   2007-08-09 00:48|| Front Page Top

#4 I’m sure many readers have far better ideas.

In case you missed mine it was BLOWUP THE NEW YORK TIMES AND MACHINEGUN ANYBODY THAT CRAWLED OUT OF THE WRECKAGE.
Just wanna make sure you got it...
Posted by tu3031 2007-08-09 00:55||   2007-08-09 00:55|| Front Page Top

#5 First I would scare all the journalists until they gave my terrorist group good press.

Then I would scare lecturers until they gave equal moral weight to terrorists.

Then I'd mirror the talking points of traitors within their own country.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-08-09 06:42||   2007-08-09 06:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Pity the New York Times didn't have their offices in the World Trade Center towers.
Posted by ed 2007-08-09 07:22||   2007-08-09 07:22|| Front Page Top

#7 I would infiltrate the newspapers.
Posted by gromgoru 2007-08-09 08:13||   2007-08-09 08:13|| Front Page Top

#8 With a little luck, Mr. Levitt, this idea will grow and take hold and begin to see fear spread across the country, and you receive all the credit you so richly deserve, until the last bullet fired by the last terrorist severs your spine leaving you a quadriplegic.

I would've left this as a comment at his article, but comments are closed.
Posted by Bobby 2007-08-09 08:14||   2007-08-09 08:14|| Front Page Top

#9 First I would scare all the journalists until they gave my terrorist group good press.

Then I would scare lecturers until they gave equal moral weight to terrorists.

Then I'd mirror the talking points of traitors within their own country.

LOL, B.P.! I think they were looking for new ideas, not ones already occurred. But, I also take it, that was your point.
Posted by BA 2007-08-09 10:42||   2007-08-09 10:42|| Front Page Top

#10 Were I a terrorist, I'd write smarmy phony stories about the US military, using anonymous sources of course, and publish them in the NY Slimes. We have met the enemy and they is us.
Posted by doc 2007-08-09 11:01||   2007-08-09 11:01|| Front Page Top

#11 I would infiltrate the newspapers.

Been done.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-08-09 11:17||   2007-08-09 11:17|| Front Page Top

#12 Brilliant post, Bright Pebbles. Effing brilliant.
Posted by Zenster 2007-08-09 16:51||   2007-08-09 16:51|| Front Page Top

#13 Mr. Levitt, I realize you are just trying to write a column on a deadline. Why don't you follow up and ask what the rest of use would do in the face of widespread attacks in the U.S. by a bunch of dipwad, death cult losers?
Posted by JohnQC 2007-08-09 17:06||   2007-08-09 17:06|| Front Page Top

#14 BLOWUP THE NEW YORK TIMES AND MACHINEGUN ANYBODY THAT CRAWLED OUT OF THE WRECKAGE.

Are you certain? I mean something as drastic as BLOWUP THE NEW YORK TIMES AND MACHINEGUN ANYBODY THAT CRAWLED OUT OF THE WRECKAGE.
Is kinda drastic.

I thisn serios bizness here BLOWUP THE NEW YORK TIMES AND MACHINEGUN ANYBODY THAT CRAWLED OUT OF THE WRECKAGE. I dunno.
Posted by Rink A Dink Dink 2007-08-09 17:40||   2007-08-09 17:40|| Front Page Top

#15 It's an interesting question although the answer provides our enemies with ideas.

If I were a terrorist here is what I would do: Nothing. That's it, I'd lie low for a long time and rebuild.

If I could get the west to fall asleep again I'd wait for a weak President before I started Jihad again.
Posted by rjschwarz 2007-08-09 17:48||   2007-08-09 17:48|| Front Page Top

#16 ANd then there's KOMMERSANT, among others > RUSSIAN MISSLE REACHES UN ... > Title Play = PC Disinformation/PYWAR Warning??? Article -ostensibly about Georgia's complaint to the UNO about Russia's recent alleged missle attack on Georgia's territory, but ya never know.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-08-09 20:45||   2007-08-09 20:45|| Front Page Top

#17 I thought about this several years ago. I can parylize Colorado Springs and Denver with attacks on fewer than five places in each. That would cause HAVOC all across the western third of the country. I am NOT going to spew what I know all over the Internet, and become an accessory before the fact, or the instigator of such terrorist activity. This guy has too few functioning brain cells to understand that. BTW, the best way to eliminate the NYSlimes is to blow up Times Square. If you do it right, the buildings will collapse inward, and ALL be destroyed. The New York Times, TIME magazine, and Times/Warner are all located in the same general area. Of course, the terrorists would NEVER do that - they would be eliminating their staunchest supporters.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2007-08-09 20:48|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2007-08-09 20:48|| Front Page Top

#18 DEBKA > Al Qaeda chatter > Trucks carrying radioactive materials targeted for attacks on various major US cities.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-08-09 21:42||   2007-08-09 21:42|| Front Page Top

#19 Trucks moving north from err, ah Mexice ?
Posted by wxjames 2007-08-09 21:58||   2007-08-09 21:58|| Front Page Top

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