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To: ko_kyi
I am curious about the details of this plan. I am sure the tunnels are far beneath the river, and it would take a lot of explosives to crack the rock above. I would think the police/subway employees might get suspicious if someone tried to bring a thounsand pounds (or kilos, in this case)of packages on a single car.

Actually the underground is not in rock. The tunnels were dug through a deposit called the London Clay. The clay is from the deposits of the Thames River. It would take a hell of an explosion to go through the clay and into the Thames. The clay is plastic in nature and therefore self sealing. For this to work they would literally have to blow a crater up to the river bottom. The nauture of explosions would make most of the explosive force follow the path of least resistance which would be down the tunnels.

18 posted on 08/09/2004 6:20:24 AM PDT by cpdiii ( Oil field trash ( and proud of it) turned pharmacist.)
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To: cpdiii

Then there are the odds to consider:

1) The probability of their overall mission success,
2) The chance that out of 100's of thousands of commuters that any individual will be affected,
3) The probability that the explosion will occur at the right location,
4) The probability that intelligence will not get them before they get us.

I would say the odds are in the favor of any given commuter.


19 posted on 08/09/2004 6:49:01 AM PDT by TaxRelief (Keep your kids safe; keep W in the White House.)
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