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2005-10-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran police defuse bomb under bridge in restive city

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Posted by Steve 2005-10-18 09:39|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Bah! Hezbollah is our dog!"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-18 11:12|| 2005-10-18 11:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Two of the principles of sabotage are first, terrorism is far less effective at changing minds than is the perception of government incompetence; and second, that you should concentrate your efforts against the junction points, not individual targets.

In the first case, adding sugar to construction concrete to make it water soluble is more effective than blowing up whatever has been made after. Dull, boring and effective.

In the second case, it is far better to hopelessly tangle the wiring in a switching yard than it is to destroy a single set of tracks. Instead of a single nuisance, a hundred nuisances. (N.B.: when the railroad employees in the US went on strike, producing a similar effect, it cost the economy 300 BILLION dollars a day.)

The concept is just the opposite of terrorism, whose goals are to make a big, spectacular noise, and to let the man in the street know that the terrorist is responsible for it. The goal of effective sabotage is the target, not the publicity.

If the British or the US wanted to send Iran a message, it would not be gauged in blood and terror, but by the screams of accountants looking at the end of the month's books.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-10-18 11:48|| 2005-10-18 11:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Could be Zark. He don't like Shiite's.

Posted by plainslow 2005-10-18 12:06|| 2005-10-18 12:06|| Front Page Top

#4 Bridges take a lot to bring down.

Hello? Third world country? Odds are it wouldn't stand up to a stern look.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-10-18 12:40|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-10-18 12:40|| Front Page Top

#5 'one stun grenade' wtf , a stun grenade too - whats the point in that then? i'd imagine anyone hit by that bomb would be a tad more then stunned.

Posted by Shep UK 2005-10-18 13:56|| 2005-10-18 13:56|| Front Page Top

#6 All I can say is:

"BWAHA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!! Give a Sh** Meter flat-lining!!!!

Posted by anymouse">anymouse 2005-10-18 15:04|| 2005-10-18 15:04|| Front Page Top

#7 when the railroad employees in the US went on strike, producing a similar effect, it cost the economy 300 BILLION dollars a day

The strike was enroute to destroy the entire US economy inside of 40 days. It was horrible. Luckily the end-of-tran/caboose rulz were kept.

Posted by Shipman 2005-10-18 17:46|| 2005-10-18 17:46|| Front Page Top

#8 end-of-tran/caboose rulz

Definition, please?

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-18 19:11|| 2005-10-18 19:11|| Front Page Top

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