Posted on 10/23/2008 7:50:28 AM PDT by harwood
..."documents found by a team of intelligence a number of countries in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan revealed that bin Laden wanted al-Qaeda devastating fires in the forests of the United States, Australia, Europe and South America to build the so-called "a bullet around the world," Or "global fire."..
(Excerpt) Read more at 209.85.171.104 ...
That may be true back east, but here in the West, in the land of little rain, 70,000 acre forest fires are not all that uncommon.
“In 2003 an FBI memo alerted law enforcement agencies that an al-Qaeda terrorist being held in detention had talked of masterminding a plot to set a series of devastating forest fires around the western United States.
It was reported that the detainee, who was not identified, said the plan involved three or four people setting wildfires using timed devices in Colorado, Montana, Utah and Wyoming that would detonate in forests and grasslands after the operatives had left the country.
“The detainee believed that significant damage to the U.S. economy would result and once it was realized that the fires were terrorist acts, U.S. citizens would put pressure on the U.S. government to change its policies,” the memo said.”
Is this what Biden was talking about?
I have never heard of Obama or Biden described as flaming bags of doggie-do, but, okay.
Beg to differ. Considering how a single idiot can do it accidentally, a half dozen jihadis could easily do thousands of square miles
I'm pretty sure he's in a cave.
Not so sure about the "live" part, though ...
I remember that one ... Far Side was a funny strip.
“Forest fires are probably difficult to do as a terror weapon. Sure, you might burn a few acres, or even a few hundred, but they’ll probably be in remote areas, and are subject to weather. It’s almost impossible for a forest fire to burn much if there’s any snow cover, and winds and rain can also impact success.”
By William M. Welch, USA TODAY July 18, 2008
LOS ANGELES —
Firefighters have contained nearly 1,500 of 1,781 wildfires that have broken out across the tinder-dry state since thunderstorms June 20 brought fire-starting lightning.
The fires have consumed almost 840,000 acres in national forests as well as state, private and local land.
The fires have consumed more acres than the firestorms last fall across Southern California, fanned by hot desert winds. More than 642,000 acres were burned, including large sections of neighborhoods in and around San Diego.
>>>>Late last week, the governor ordered 2,000 National Guard personnel to join firefighters. Monday, firefighters from Australia, Greece, Mexico and New Zealand were en route to California to assist efforts, CalFire said in a statement.<<<<<
Several big fires were more than 50% contained, the governor’s Office of Emergency Services said, including a fire that has burned almost 120,000 acres and threatened Big Sur along the coast. It is 61% contained, and 1,400 residences remain threatened; 27 homes have been destroyed.
A fire that once threatened the Southern California coastal town of Santa Barbara is 90% contained.
Here’s hoping that the first forest targeted for incineration has a bunch of trees with those Berkeley tree-sitting wackos in them.
I subscribed to the Homeland Security website a few weeks ago. It’s been interesting. It’s free to sign up.
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This is bad news, because it shows the terrorists are using their imagination. We’re doing pretty good covering the standard terrorists plots, but there are tons of targets they could hit if they thought about it (thankfully they haven’t.)
The most scary non-9/11 terrorist act was the DC sniper (imho), because it was so random. It had the DC area on alert for months, and what was it? Two guys, a gun, and a sedan. Pretty easy to pull off even now.
If they took that random acts of violence approach, it would have an impact.
Random forest fires.
Random building fires (home and office, how hard is it to get a few gallos of gas and a match?)
Random sniper shootings.
There was a guy years ago dropping large bricks off freeway overpasses onto car windshields. Killed a woman. Never caught.
Terrorist have focused on the big event (planting bombs at buildings, taking down a bridge, etc...) and that is where our focus has been, but if the go for a lot of small, easy targets things could get very ugly.
“He lives in a desert cave and hasn’t seen a real tree in over a decade. What does he know about burning them?”
“LONDON — Documents recovered from a remote area along the Pakistan border have revealed that Osama bin Laden wants al-Qaida to launch a “global fireball” by lighting forest fires in Europe, the United States, Australia and South America, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.”
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78573
Well, we’re almost there.
If the polls are right, we’re about to send a flaming bag of doggie-do to the capital.
Ok, al-Qaeda. You burn trees here, we burn trees in Mecca. What, there are no trees in Mecca? No problem, a ‘shroom cloud will do the job.
During WWII, my grandfather's logging crew found one of these in Northern Idaho. Obviously, it hadn't detonated. Some military people came, confirmed what it was, and removed it. The discovery was not publicly announced so that the Japanese wouldn't learn that these balloons were successfully reaching North America.
President Obama would no more attack a muslim country than tell the truth about raising taxes.
LOL. true
Right on the mark - that was funny.
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