Fawn wrote:
How can this be labeled unimaginable scale? How many people on an airplane? OVer 3,000? I'm not downlplaying it...but that's a bit exagerated isn't it? Was it more than one place perhaps?
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Exagerated? Maybe not. How about this scenario:
--10 airplanes headed to major U.S. cities, each plane with an average of 200 people.
--One terrorist on each plane releases bubonic plague into the ventilation system.
-- Each of the infected passengers passes on the infection to 100 people in the next ten days.
Total: 200,000 Americans with bubonic plague
Now, that is merely an imaginative scenario, and no reason why anyone should panic.
However. . .just because the authorities say "bomb threat" doesn't necessarily mean they are actually dealing with a bomb threat.
And don't forget the many posts about "but,but,but we are fight the war on terra in Iraq!!!"
Ugh.
Jeez...all kinds of things they could do....