5. Flooding as well as a near miss low yield atomic bomb causes havoc in New York. EMP disrupts the power grid and Wall Street data bases.
I could see the low yield bomb in NY but the EMP has always been my contention for they do want to destablize , even cripple our communications
7. The jihad sets off a red mercury dirty bomb around Wash. D.C. in 2006, causing radioactivity and disease over a period of time. [On a Coast to Coast radio show recently he said it would be a small suitcase bomb, a couple of which are already within our borders. Back in 1994 no one knew what a red mercury bomb was. Now they do. Editor]
I can see this happen in DC now, and it would cause an immediate 3-4 block disaster and the fallout...
On your #8, Pakistan and India definitely and the State Dept put out continous open-ended warnings about Nepal yesterday