To: RaceBannon
they are disabling the escape routes from Manhattan...
people will crowd onto the Amtraks to avoid increased commutes and detours....
they hit Manhattan and then hit the trains of people fleeing NYC.
(this is all a hypothesis.....but LA Union Station just installed radiological detectors this week)
To: BurbankKarl
Why not just blow the bridges.....
Timing would have to had been precise to have this be planned.
To: BurbankKarl
they are disabling the escape routes from Manhattan...
That is a scary thought and is worth thinking about. However, like a poster said, sometimes shi'ite just happens.
Course it wouldn't take much to close down the tunnels into New Jersey. Are flammable materials allowed to go through there? Not like terrorists really bother to play by the rules.
22 posted on
03/26/2004 4:25:30 PM PST by
lelio
To: BurbankKarl
they are disabling the escape routes from Manhattan...Nah. If they were disabling escape routes, they would have melted the Northbound lanes, not the Southbound. Besides, a jihadi wouldn't last 5 minutes in Bridgeport. They'd eat 'em alive.
28 posted on
03/26/2004 4:29:03 PM PST by
Ol' Sox
To: BurbankKarl
disabling the escape routes from Manhattan... Interesting, today we had two of the three bridges to NJ from Staten Island closed by accidents. One, on the Goethals Bridge, involved 4 trucks, one a chemical tanker. The bridge was(may still be partially) closed for hours. The Outer Bridge Crossing, I didn't hear many details on the accident, but it was a much shorter closing.
The third bridge to Jersey is the Bayonne Bridge, and that is no fast escape. From there there are several more mostly smaller bridges on any evacuation route.
I'm heading to the marina myself. ;-)
46 posted on
03/26/2004 6:18:25 PM PST by
StriperSniper
(Manuel Miranda - Whistleblower)
To: BurbankKarl
53 posted on
03/26/2004 6:48:10 PM PST by
StriperSniper
(Manuel Miranda - Whistleblower)
To: BurbankKarl
Your conspiracy theory works, except for the fact that it was an accident that caused the explosion, just like an accident caused the propane truck explosion ten years earlier on the nearby I-287, and a few years ago on the NYS Thruway when a car crashed into a oil truck underneath an overpass, causing it to MELT.
To: BurbankKarl
Bridgeort is 60 miles from Columbus Circle. The number of NYC commuters affected by this incident is miniscule. What is troubling is that both the I 95 and Goethals Bridge are major truck routes and bottlenecks. Anyone with a sense of economic warfare knows the value of chokepoints (think Gibralta, The Dardanelles, and a map of Malaysia and Indonesia.)
In assymetric warfare punishment on the offending siciety need not be measured in 1,000s of dead. It can be measured in the consequences of multiple attacks on the infrastructure which create chaos in the economy.If a simple jr hi history teacher like me can see that, I'msure our enemies have thought of it. Hopefully our people have as well.
84 posted on
03/27/2004 3:01:05 PM PST by
xkaydet65
(" You have never tasted freedom my friend, else you would know, it is purchased not with gold, but w)
To: BurbankKarl
They had that plan with the first WTC attack actually.
They wanted to take out the Holland Tunnel.
If you read about it enough that information is there.
I shudder typing this.
Also the police in Bayonne know about some Arab terrorists in Bayonne who had plotted to destroy bridges on or around 9/11. They knew this after 9/11 and made an arrest. An Egyptian I believe.
Then there is that Ohio? Arab? trucker Farris? who was on a similar mission, regarding a bridge.
Not that I necessarily believe anything of this CT incident.
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