Terror Plot "One Of The Most Chilling Imaginable"

wnbc.com ^ | June 2, 2007 | Unattributed

[sarasmom]

Is that a trick question? /sarcasm//

Regardless, I won’t be brought to my knees, and neither will most of my neighbors.
Have you forgotten?

[billbears]

Well that didn't take long

He was sent to meet with the JFK plot's alleged mastermind Russell Defreitas in 2006 and was introduced by an unidentified third party. Defreitas quickly accepted the informant as legitimate, saying he was sure they knew each other through a Brooklyn mosque. The informant was convincing. Defreitas, according to a federal complaint, believed the informant "had been sent by Allah to be the one" to pull off the bombing.

That's right. According to the complaint the 'terrorist' (although I'm not sure how you could call him a terrorist if the FBI hadn't gotten involved as he had no means to complete his desire) expected the informant to pull off the bombing. Much like pizza boy expected the FBI informant in his case to lead the attack against the military installation.

I'm telling you we need some FBI guys with imagination if they're going to come up with these 'imminent attacks'. Because right now they're not sounding much more than really bad scripts that couldn't even make the 'reality based' 24

[omnivore]

Also, I’d have to bet there must be some kind of automatic valves in the lines that would close if the system sensed a pressure drop or surge. Like the kind on ordinary gas pump nozzles, where half the time you have to keep your hand on them because the auto-shutoff is too sensitive. If they didn’t, just an ordinary error or malfunction would lead to a huge spill at the rate those things pump. Not to say a terrorist couldn’t do something, as you say, but this story sounds a little overblown on what “could have happened.”