However, a “shopping mall” is a bit fractured for them to gather up people....schools would be easier to control.....in stores you’d have more adults who would think about running out back doors, etc....and scattering....in schools....it would be different....mostly children who would not think about running away.
I couldn’t disagree more. They aren’t motivated by ‘getting everybody’...they want to create an economic ‘shock’, which they got with 9/11 in spades. Can you think of a place better suited to get the point across to ‘average Americans’ than a shopping mall?
Second point, exits from schools aren’t as easily discernible then shopping malls, which are all based on a ‘wheel pattern’...the ‘spokes’ of which contain exists at the end of each. Pick the four corners of the compass, enter and begin shooting. The ‘flow’ will go in the opposite direction - its human nature. And we know whats in the ‘middle’ of every shopping mall in this nation, a ‘food court’. Usually visable from above, btw, in malls with two or more levels.
You want to curtail consumer shopping? Make it a death trap conceived by four to six jihadist/homicide bombers.
Its all ‘speculation’ but I think my scenario requires far less planning, with a much greater potential for economic ‘shock effect’ which the bin Laden’s of the world target routinely.
My next ‘favorite’ scenario (I know thats a weird way of putting it, btw) is an attack at a nationally covered sporting event.
One of the two Monday Night Football games will be played in Cincinnati tonight.....and the timing is evident given today’s date.
see post 128
It's currently hard to get into a stadium with backpacks and such. But consider the possibility of a mortar or rocket attack on an open-air stadium crowd, launched from some pickup truck in some parking lot. Open borders that allow illegal aliens to cross, will also allow hardware to cross
Watched that game! Man was that a good game considering I love da Bengals. But I have to admit I thought how that many people could be a target. All they had to do what put a few bombs there and the panic would do the rest. But there was also plenty of security there.