[Missy35]

fyi

[twntaipan]

What if the devestation is to come from large-scale attacks by Muslims in the USA on a wide scale, rather than high profile attacks? An American intifadah?

[Dog Gone]

But there is speculation that nothing happened after the alert on October 11 because whatever had been allegedly planned by al Qaeda was either postponed or cancelled after some of its operatives were caught in the international anti-terror operation and arrested.

Can we relax yet?

[Mike Darancette]

A general warning issued by Attorney-General John Ashcroft on October 11 drew sharp criticism from some Congressmen who complained that the warning then was too vague to be of much use to the authorities but sufficiently ominous to unsettle already nervous Americans.

These Congressmen should be informed first then asked whether they think that this information should be withheld from their constituents. That will shut them up.

[DouglasKC]

Transcripts of the intercepts have not been made available but officials said they were especially frightening.

Why not let us see them?

[Hegewisch Dupa]

No-flight zones were established around all of America's nuclear power plants and the Sears Tower in Chicago, now the country's tallest skyscraper.

I know this is a helluva time to be petty, and the article make much more important points, but I just want to add that the Sears Tower has been the country's tallest since it was completed. Still the world's tallest, by any reasonable definition.

[Sal]

No-flight zones were established around all of America's nuclear power plants and the Sears Tower in Chicago, now the country's tallest skyscraper.

Clearly the folks in charge of protecting U.S. figure great damage could still come from the skies. OK, I'm glad they're watching for planes and I'm even glad they'd shoot one down if necessary. I assume they're tracking all planes with radar, have guards who can see the plane lights (which could be turned off) and hear the sound of the motors.

What I can't shake out of my mind is that filthy calendar that showed a plane crashing into NYC for September and a scene of general mayhem for October. Remember the balloons in the October picture? No radar image. No sound. I guess the flames might be visible at night. Could they be masked?

Obviously gently drifting one of these down on a nuke plant wouldn't have the effect of a jet fuel laden 747 crash unless they have MAJOR explosives packed in it, like maybe one of the suitcase nukes that are alleged to be missing.

Another sort of loose thought... Isn't Bush going to address the UN pretty soon? I have a vague memory of a news announcement to that effect a ways back, but I can't find anything on it searching under Bush visit or address United Nations... I've missed a lot of news lately (traveling)--had to rely on CNN in most hotels so I've mostly only heard of anthrax, anthrax, anthrax.

Anyway, while I wish the UN would go away, I don't want to see it "martyred" and I damn sure don't want to see it blown away with the U.S. President in it. I don't know how that could really be protected against anyway since these suitcase thingies can allegedly wipe out 11 square miles. All they'd need is a suicidal 7th century whack-job with a nuke getting within that 11 square mile area. That's a lot of NYC to rope off and clear on a room to room basis.

Nevertheless, I keep wondering why those balloons found their way onto that calendar. It was such a strange note. I know October got over without any of that picture coming true, but legend has it that loads of the psychos have been quietly rounded up behind the scenes. If they're out of business rather than just slowed down, that's great but probably too good to be true.

Any thoughts? I'd love to have you tell me that a sky-camouflaged balloon couldn't possibly be an effective weapon because I don't think it was on that calendar for decoration.

[Eternal_Bear]

Not sure what it could be but shooting down passenger planes with shoulder launched SAM's on the day before Thanksgiving is one thing to watch out for, since that's the busiest travel date of the year. Who knows? Maybe the chinese have given them a new super killer virus we have no antidote for yet? America is a target rich environment and there are many weapons.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think they might use Anthrax again, it has been effective!

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[SamAdams76]

Well the good thing is that if the terrorists had smallpox, they surely would't be wasting their time with this anthrax stuff. Though I certainly would not object to immunization on a national scale, just in case. Why did we stop innoculation in the first place?

[boycott]

Some of the democrats will ask, "Why would you put out such a warning?"

If something happened, these same democrats would have asked, "How could you not put out a warning if you knew something might happen? The American people had a right to know."

Democrats will make something political out of everything. The only thing they know is attack, attack, and attack. It's not about this nation to them. It's about their own political agenda.

[Mahone]

Did anyone else see Eleanor Smeal commenting on this on the McLaughlin report last weekend? The woman was so mad she was spitting, saying that that is why we pay these people at the top so they'll "absorb" these things and not pass them on and make us all frightened.

Just shows how much more pathetic the left has become since 9/11

[Lady GOP]

Its going to take another disaster before the sheeple stand on their feet and say we're in trouble. People seem to think what happened in NYC was a random act.

They seemed to have other agents for those jobs than the agents now associated with the biochem attacks. These may be some other terrorist groups not neccesarily from Afghanistan. These terrorists saw the US as weak and took advantage of it.