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Experts: London plot not Osama's encore
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| Posted: August 15, 2006
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Posted on 08/15/2006 9:00:23 AM PDT by Fawn
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To: ASA Vet
Well I can understand the need to not cause panic and fear. But based on the reactions of the past week, the public face of DHS seems very non-chalant.
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:46:59 AM PDT
by
rintense
To: pbear8
I disagree as I believe that they intended to create terror not by just blowing up planes over the Atlantic, but by blowing them up over American cities so the planes parts and luggage and dead bodies would rain over our cities. That would be real psychological terror.
Exactly what I was thinking. I still remember Flight 182 on the morning of September 25, 1978. It smashed into a densely populated neighborhood only a few miles from my house at the time - it was amazing that only 7 people (on the ground) were killed. Had it not been a work day...
Here's an amateur photographer photographed N533PS just before impacting the ground.
To: BigFinn
I agree. To believe that Osama is not planning something big is foolish. For all we know this "foiled" plot may have been a diversion, intentionally allowing the US/UK to uncover a planned terrorist attack. Security forces would then think Osama is still aiming at some type of attack through the airlines, concentrating our attention on the aviation community. This would be a rope-a-dope strategy, we would then be attacked in a different direction.
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posted on
08/15/2006 9:53:07 AM PDT
by
ops33
(Retired USAF Senior Master Sergeant)
To: Trampled by Lambs
Doh! Try this one:
The aircraft crashed after colliding with a Cessna 172 while on a downwind for runway 27 at San Diego. The PSA jet's flight crew was cited at fault for failing to maintain visual separation with the Cessna after reporting it in sight.
If that's not terror, I don't know what is.
To: Fawn
Experts agree a plausible nightmare scenario involves al-Qaida shipping dirty nukes in uninspected cargo containers bound for ports in New York, New Jersey, Miami, Los Angeles, Houston and near Washington, and then detonating them once they are in position. The technology used could be as simple as GPS transmitters and cell phones. The radiological fallout from the blasts could render the cities uninhabitable for years, crippling the economy.Have you noticed how the democrats are always barking about containers being searched? We know OBL watches our internal politics closely, looking for opportunities to divide. A couple radiological bombs, brought in via containers, and detonated, would give the Democrats an issue they would try to use to regain power - something OBL prefers - since they seen WOT as a police action and not a war.
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posted on
08/15/2006 10:08:45 AM PDT
by
DHerion
To: Trampled by Lambs
I lived in LA at the time of this crash, I remember it well. They released the cockpit recording sometime later and it was chilling how professional the PSA pilot was as he reported the situation and received the reply that "The equipment has been sent".
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posted on
08/15/2006 10:11:56 AM PDT
by
pbear8
(Praying for Steve Centanni and his colleague)
To: Fawn
"The FBI says there's no evidence al-Qaida has sleeper cells in the U.S." Sounds like the only ones asleep is th FBI!
Wonder who made that asinine statement??
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posted on
08/15/2006 10:19:42 AM PDT
by
FixitGuy
To: FixitGuy
th = the
And I used th splchequer tu!
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posted on
08/15/2006 10:21:45 AM PDT
by
FixitGuy
To: Fawn
The radiological fallout from the blasts could render the cities uninhabitable for years, crippling the economy. Sure. That's why nobody lives in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and you can't visit Ground Zero at the White Sands Missile Range.
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posted on
08/15/2006 10:25:15 AM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Fawn
"in New York, New Jersey, Miami, Los Angeles, Houston and near Washington,"
Then we nuke Mecca, Riyadh, Tehran, Damascus, Islamabad, and Karachi.
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posted on
08/15/2006 10:44:10 AM PDT
by
monday
To: Fawn; Peach
"The radiological fallout from the blasts could render the cities uninhabitable for years, crippling the economy." Potassium Iodine anyone? Cheaper than I expected.
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posted on
08/15/2006 10:52:32 AM PDT
by
blam
To: blam
Thanks for that link, Blam and for remembering. You'd sent me e-mail about this but we were gone for a few days and then family arrived to visit and I don't think I ever responded. Thanks again - that's saved and calendared to act on after family leaves.
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posted on
08/15/2006 11:58:28 AM PDT
by
Peach
(The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
To: Fawn
"Former senior DHS official Clark Kent Ervin. . . "
Ahem. Clark Kent Ervin??
Methinks this guy takes himself way too seriously.
To: pbear8
"I disagree as I believe that they intended to create terror not by just blowing up planes over the Atlantic, but by blowing them up over American cities so the planes parts and luggage and dead bodies would rain over our cities. That would be real psychological terror."
Maybe. But unless they simultaneously detonated all of them it would be tough to get the job completed. Once the first plane went up the other planes in the air would have been alerted and the passengers on those planes would have torn apart anyone who even looked remotely suspicious.
To: blam
" Potassium Iodine anyone? Cheaper than I expected."
That has very low radiation levels. Not useful for Osama's purposes.
To: monday
Then we nuke Mecca, Riyadh, Tehran, Damascus, Islamabad, and Karachi.Absolutely. The U.S. ought to issue a presidential proclamation that if any U.S. city is hit with a terrorist attack we nuke Mecca the next day.
To: Fawn
Hmm...Some say there is a silver lining in every storm cloud.
To: Fawn
They are planning to blow up all the gas stations they operate in the US.
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posted on
08/17/2006 10:42:46 PM PDT
by
syriacus
(Worried about attacks from Iran or Korea? Daschle wanted to scuttle our missile defense program)
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