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To: naturalman1975
Shrapnel, glass and debris would be hurled up to 250 metres. The truck carrying the
bomb would break into 10,000 one-kilogram pieces. Two buildings would collapse.
The human toll: 900 dead, 9500 injured.


(thanks for posting, naturalman1975)
This article is a good reminder of THE MASSIVE and mostly UN-SUNG work done
by cops/intelligence officer throught the countries of The Coalition of The Willing.

As much of a weasel as security-guy Richard Clarke is, I shake my head in amazement
that this hasn't happened in the USA, U.K., Australia, Poland, etc.
And having been a long-term Oklahoman who know enough about the truck-bombing of
Murrah Building in Oklahoma City...I still shudder every time I go to
Los Angeles International Airport, knowing that any determined puke really could
have a decent shot at running a truck bomb into the place (given the airport's configuration).

Only the noble, day-and-night vigilance of a lot of dedicated guards keeps us from
suffering a catastrophe.

The sort of catastrophe that someone like John Forbes Kerry would just consider
a really extreme example of a "nuisance".
8 posted on 10/23/2004 9:10:01 PM PDT by VOA
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To: VOA
This article is a good reminder of THE MASSIVE and mostly UN-SUNG work done by cops/intelligence officer throught the countries of The Coalition of The Willing.

Hear, hear!

People always about intelligence failures, and very few ever consider that you hardly ever hear anything about the things that get stopped.

9 posted on 10/23/2004 9:16:09 PM PDT by naturalman1975 (Sure, give peace a chance - but si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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