LA Times: Al Qaeda To Attack Major Cities and Remote Areas (excerpted)

LA Times via azcentral.com ^ | 12-23-03

[My Favorite Headache]

WASHINGTON -- Al-Qaida operatives may be plotting several unrelated attacks in the United States, targeting not only major cities but also remote bulwarks of the

[GeronL]

If we are going to be attacked we cannot run away to Helms Deep, we need to stand and fight hard! Slay them!

[MediaMole]

5. The trained pilots story that was out tonight that are working for foreign airliners. Flying them into stadiums on national TV.

The Sugar Bowl on Jan. 4. A domed stadium would be a deathtrap (compared to an open bowl) if an aircraft hit.

[ArmstedFragg]

has Al=Qeada been training on the Caterpillar?

It'd be just like those sneaky SOB's. Get us watching the airports, meanwhile they're plowing up the Capitol Building.

[My Favorite Headache]

Yeah but to who? Who would we go after? I mean we have knocked out Afghanistan and Iraq. I believe the next step would clearly be in the hands of John Q Public. Period. Not a military action against a nation.

[My Favorite Headache]

I'm with you Wally, but we should be doing that right now anyway. With small nukes.

[Finalapproach29er]

In the 1940's, Jim Crow laws existed too. Some people equate the two-as immoral blights caused by "barbaric thinking". This is what happens when one generation second-guesses the previous generations' decisions. This generation loves to look down its nose at generations' past decisions.

As long as people got money in their pockets, they're full of PC moral rightousness.

It would take a hell of a body count or an economic collapse to strip away the PC morality that has built up in this nation since we became prosporous in the 1950's.

I think PC thinking would preclude any truly savage act like loading 80 500# bombs into a B-52 and opening the doors over the Saudi suburbs. It would look "reactionary" to the "important" people of the US.

Again, I wish you were right on this, but I doubt it.

[My Favorite Headache]

Poor Pvt.Santiago.

[FBD]

I don't know...these terrorists aren't that smart really.
Think about "shoe bomber" Richard Reid.
Think Johnny Taliban. They are stupid-a$$ natty ratty dirt bags.

Oh, they may get away with some s#!++y little plot.
Anything that doesn't require them to use their small petty little minds very creatively.
If they were creative, they wouldn't be terrorists.
The big complicated plots are for Hollywood script writers.

And as far as I'm concerned, these dirt bags have a lot more to fear of us, than we ever have to fear of them.

Because...our eyes our open now...and we've got em on the run all over the world. Thank God for GW, and our military.

I for one will sleep soundly, and without fear. :)
Goodnight all!

[My Favorite Headache]

That town mayor always pissed me off.

[Quix]

It doesn't matter if we hold the cards

IF

we don't play them . . . or play them mostly poorly or too late-ly.

[WackyKat]

I think PC thinking would preclude any truly savage act like loading 80 500# bombs into a B-52 and opening the doors over the Saudi suburbs. It would look "reactionary" to the "important" people of the US.

I assure you that depends entirely on how many of those "important" people are killed in the next attack

[Yaelle]

Just let Syria (for example) know that the next attack on our soil will be attributed to it.

Wonderful! I sure hope we are doing something like this. Because if there is another 9/11, it does call for nukes but Where To Send Them???

[My Favorite Headache]

Serious question. I guess I can post this to you and the forum. What are the odds of the milita movement going into full action if we get attacked? I was very surprised they held back the way they did after 9-11. I don't see certain Americans sitting back and giving ANY muslim a pass this time round.

Is it me or is there a feeling going around that is almost like us saying "Go ahead...give us a reason to kick your asses out of here"?

[My Favorite Headache]

Serious question. I guess I can post this to you and the forum. What are the odds of the milita movement going into full action if we get attacked? I was very surprised they held back the way they did after 9-11. I don't see certain Americans sitting back and giving ANY muslim a pass this time round.

Is it me or is there a feeling going around that is almost like us saying "Go ahead...give us a reason to kick your asses out of here"?

[JennysCool]

Agreed. But, again, there's no need to perform our "offensive" here with firepower at all. Just let Country A know through channels that we (and our armada) will hold it responsible should anything happen to us. I have a hunch this sort of, er, "message" has kept us safe since 9/11. May it continue to do so.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I DO hope and pray you're right.

[Az Joe]

So what the heck happens domestically when we go to "Code Red" anyway?

[My Favorite Headache]

I was at the local wal mart tonight and saw 4 county sheriffs doing drive by's every 5 mins outside the store. Un-marked cars as well. This is not a big town but cops were stopping everywhere there was a van or even a car parked in an odd spot.

[My Favorite Headache]

I was at the local wal mart tonight and saw 4 county sheriffs doing drive by's every 5 mins outside the store. Un-marked cars as well. This is not a big town but cops were stopping everywhere there was a van or even a car parked in an odd spot.

[JSteff]

"Next time there is a terrorist attack, there will be no chatters."

Agreed. Their own form of shock and awe will be proceeded with silence... making it that much more of a shock.

I do suspect though, that something will be attempted around Christmas or New Years against Americans somewhere in the world. But not as big as our government is suspecting right now.