[Oorang]

Ping

[Enduring Freedom]

articles like these make one wonder if the media are not only cheerleaders but consultants to terrorists

[Ace's Dad]

Scary Mary at it again

[Jalapeno]

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[Tall_Texan]

Let's be sure to thank the tv station when the terrorists plan to do the very things here and say "We saw it on American television. Before that, we were just praying to Allah for inspiration."

[pax_et_bonum]

Houston ping

[RushingWater]

I think a bigger worry for Houston is a Cat 5 coming up Galveston Bay . . .

[weegee]

Absolutely.

(Houston PING)

With 45+ minute car chases being a matter of routine and a monster 36 hour traffic jam during the Rita evacuation (much of it centered within the outer borders of Harris County) due to poor communication, there is no doubt that Houston is an easy target. There are also some choice targets but I won't list them.

Any terrorists are more likely to be stopped in the act in Houston if they are also drawing graffiti on walls, smoking in public, or running red lights.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Mary Schiavo, an expert in general aviation methods and security ...

Well, we can infer she is an expert at self-promotion, since she got these clowns to swallow her bull$hit.

[airborne]

A sitting duck,indeed!

[WFTR]

No amount of security will ever make us safe. The only safety will come when we hurt the Muslim jihadists so badly that they either surrender or are all dead. We're going to have to break their will and show them that our desire to keep them from killing us is greater than their desire to kill us. If we only think about defense, we've lost already.

The whole story may seem shocking, but if the terrorists can identify the storage tanks that contain the worst chemicals, they don't need to steal a plane to cause a catastrophic failure. In many cases, the tanks are visible from a public road. They can stop their car, get out with a rocket launcher, and fire a rocket through the tank wall before anyone can react. Even if a police officer comes along at that moment, one terrorist can use a military rifle to hold off the officer while the other fires the rocket launcher. Another way of destroying storage tanks or piping is to cut through the fence at night and come into the plant with explosives. All of these security precautions are based on the idea that the terrorists will want to do something smooth and graceful as if they were movie characters sneaking into and out of an installation without being caught. Real terrorists haven't shown themselves to be that fancy. Instead, they just get in crudely but quickly and do their damage.

Bill

[COEXERJ145]

I wouldn't take a single thing Mary Schiavo says seriously.

The woman is nothing but a scum sucking lawyer. Last time I checked she was suing Boeing over Sept. 11th.

[eastforker]

One thing the article does not point out is that the prevailing wind in this part of Texas most of the time is out of the west, south or north and would keep most of a gas release in less populated areas.We do get the occasional east or south easterly breezes but not all that often.

[Lee'sGhost]

"Is Houston A Sitting Duck For Terrorism? "

Yes, as is every other city in the U.S. And the planet for that matter.

What a bunch of wasted ink.

[Diddle E. Squat]

"Many people would loose their lives," she said if a plane or jet was stolen and crashed into the right chemical storage tank.

As of a couple of minutes ago that misspelling was still in the original text. Too many journalists are hired based on political viewpoints and flamboyance rather than intelligence and skill.

If a terrorist actually does pull off one of these media offered paint-by-numbers attacks, I hope that someone will place on the internet a story exposing how easy it is to penetrate the media's security.