[kstewskis]

I heard Sean Hannity briefly mention this tonight on Hannity and Colmes.

Catalina Island looks right at San Pedro and the LA Harbor, a site for oil refineries and tankers. Explosions, or whatever stunts they would pull here could be very dangerous..

[norton]

There is also a whole lot of small craft traffic between the island and mainland:
you could wind-surf in from 20 miles out and no one would look twice.
Forty Ski-Doos, line abreast, driven by guys in dynamite shirts just might be taken as unusual even by local standards.

Actual distance is about 26 miles, Catalina is visible from several elevations throughout the LA area.

[goody2shooz]

...we are going to surprise...in a place where it is not expecting...

Santa Catalina sounds like a red herring. A freighter there would stand out among the yachts like an goony bird among sparrows.

I'm going to take the guy's word at face value and suggest someplace like Portland, Oregon. No oil refineries but lots of natural gas storage tanks in northwest Portland, right on the banks of the Williamette River. Ought to make one hell of a fireball.

And then there's the Trojan Nuclear Plant on the Columbia River. It is closed down and all the spent fuel has been removed but hey, how would they know that!

[sheik yerbouty]

There are small water craft rentals in that area as well. They need to be vigilant.