[Allegra]

1 RPG nailing a passenger plane taking off would shut down that runway, no?

Not for long.

The bastidges actually tried that a couple of times back in the bad old days of '04 and '05. Their aim sucks, so they didn't get anybody, but they tried.

Not only RPGs, but they used to love to aim mortars and rockets at both airports - military and commercial. All it did was stall things for about 45 minutes.

The runways were never closed for long after these incidents.

And remember...their aim sucks.

[EternalVigilance]

Hmmm...

Been looking for a tagline...

[4woodenboats]

I don't really think the whole ME is going to melt down, and if someone got hold of some sort of WMD, the likelyhood of it being deployed (or attempted to) here would be much greater.

Still, let's hope they don't use something that doesn't take a great deal of accuracy should things unwind.