[Rutles4Ever]

Looks to me like a map of the Northwestern portion of the United States (Washington, Idaho, Montana, N. Dakota, and Minnesota)... The water is obvious... the bomb is obvious... Can't come up with a connection for that part of the U.S. Map, though...

[Rutles4Ever]

In addition, the illustration of "buildings" appears to be in the form of Arabic letters..

[LikeLight]

Nice analysis of the map portion . . . I was studying that last night and I knew it had to be a map, but I couldn't get the fix on it . . . you are dead on, it's the northern U.S. border . . . the way the lines are drawn, it seems like something went or is going over the Canadian border through Idaho and something else in eastern Montana . . . could the "buildings" be train cars or trucks - looks like they have wheels . . .

[Velveeta]

Can't come up with a connection for that part of the U.S. Map, though...

I can't either. Thanks for posting the pic.

[Lucy Lake]

Looks to me like a map of the Northwestern portion of the United States

Do you suppose they are targeting sight seeing river boats on the Columbia River? They must be getting desperate. River boats are limited in the number of passengers they can carry.

[Right_Handed_Writer]

Could very well represent the northern border. Looking specifically at the two indicated ports of entry, one potentially being Porthill, Idaho and the other potentially Whitetail, MT, each of these has an "international" airport at the border. Eckhart Airport in Porthill and Poplar Airport in Whitetail. Both are remote border crossings. And probably very porous.

[Myrddin]

I just did a search for railroad lines in the northwest. The line from Canada going south through western Washington into western Idaho matches the location of a railroad line. My guess is the bad guys will or have employed a container from a cargo ship that is moved to a railroad car to bring a bomb into the U.S. The available railroad paths take such cargo right past my home in the Pocatello area.

I tried to find a suitable link to post that shows the maps with the railroad lines, but most of this is offered with online "viewers" that aren't suitable to include inline here.

[penguino]

Interesting your finding specific states in the bottom part of the drawing. Initially, I was thinking more along the lines of it depicting the triggering of an underwater fault line. They did say they want to "shock the scientists."

However, (admittedly getting creative here) when you combine your idea of the states with mine of the fault line some interesting potential targets come up. Milltown Dam in Montana sits at an intersection of two earthquake faults & it is not even structurally sound. Apparently the dam has many problems like a weakened base, cracks, fissures, etc., and it's chock full of toxic sediments.

The dam is located at the junction of two rivers near Missoula.

[Oorang]

Rutles, help me out here please. I posted that upon first looking at the pix I to thought it looked like the NW US (actually I posted NE in error, I meant NW). Then I pulled out my trusty atlas. It does look like WA, Idaho and Montana but what is the northern upward ^ in what would be N. Dakota (N. Dakota's upper border is straight) and then Minnesota's northern border doesn't look like the drawing at all. I'm not questioning your analysis, just trying to understand the drawing.

The upper "scribbles" (above the green wavy lines that look like water), to me, look like a ship with a crane offloading (first drawing from left) at a loading dock (2nd drawing), (third drawing) not sure but I assume the mode of transport possibly train car, (4th drawing) old fashioned bomb with fuse - think bugs bunny cartoon type bomb drawing, (5th and 6th) buildings with the 6th one possible being a factory (the two dots above the stacks).