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Revel, these remarks are very disconcerting

Yep I agreee Piper..... But in a way I am also releived a bit too at the same time since nothing happened and the alert has been knocked back down a notch. Now before you and others go scratching your heads about why I would say that I'll explain.

My resoning for being relieved a bit is because I have a strong feeling that they stopped some of the attacks that were supposed to happen and have very good intel on what is to happen next. So they bring the alert down to give the al-jerks a false sense that we are not on our highest guard as we have been.

Now if I'm right then even though the alert is back down a notch publicly it is still at orange privately. This gives somewhat of a greenlight for the terrorists to try and pull off their attacks and our guys can be there waiting to nab them before they pull it off.

I know it sounds like a huge gamble if this is what they are doing but if it is then I hope our guys have their ducks all in a row and get them. Also I could be wrong and they just brought down the alert leaving us exposed to a hell on earth senario in some parts of the country. Let's just hope I'm at least half-ass right!!!

have very good intel on what is to happen next. So they bring the alert down to give the al-jerks a false sense that we are not on our highest guard as we have been.

Seems very plausible and I think your more than 1/2 @ssed right ;)

Agreed, things are often not what they seem, most especially when any kind of intelligence operation is involved.

You can be sure that over the years some things have been stopped that we'll never hear about, possibly even over the past couple of weeks. Not merely temporarily averted by going on high alert, but with the individuals involved and/or their physical weapons put out of action (hopefully permanently).

I don't know if dropping to yellow is a huge gamble or not - it depends on how much they know about what was averted, what had caused the orange alert in the first place, and what kind of elevated alert the remaining sectors are still under. (Note that we probably don't know all of the details of what remains on elevated alert!).

However all intelligence is always a gamble to some extent - and it's unlikely we'd be able to prevent everything even if we're on Red. Hopefully whatever does get through isn't on the scale of some of what's been discussed with entire cities being destroyed etc.