[Darksheare]

Here's, in a nutshell, how terrorism by power outage would 'work':
You shut off power once to see how much 'damage' and inconvenience you can produce as well as to see how long it takes for the other guy to fix what you did.
You time it, and see what continues working as well.
Then, you take all that info you generated and create a plan.
What terror boys would do next is this: Shut off power again.
This time have explosives rigged into teh system so that when juice flows through again, it blows at a set time after current is restored. You set up places to attack, where people congregate. (Garbage bin bombs. NYC would have been a slaughterhouse with everyone outside like that.)
Then, you fit an ambulance you stole with explosives.
And when the First responders get to the scene, you have some suicida-kazis drive up pretending to be EMT's and det that too.
The targets would be Police, Firemen, and EMT's.
Think the ambulance is too much?
The Pali's do just that over in Israel.

[DarkshadowNY]

you know what bothers me, is that America is the most armed country in the world and we still can't seem to protect what is ours...Mainly because we have groups that say we can't it is wrong to defend and get the bad people they don't know any better, I for one am tired of this nonsense, after being in the military I learned you probe your target to find out what they have and can do, capabilities and such..Make no mistake that this COULD be a start to something bigger...so instead of worrying about them attacking we should be hunting.......

[SAMWolf]

I agree with you Darksheare. If you want to terrorize a population that's the way you do it. That or instead of going for a single high profile target, you select totally random "everyday targets" in small towns and large cities. Malls, schools, peoples work places, you may only get a few people each time but if terror is your objective, then this is the way to get the people afraid to go to work, shop, send their kids to school, etc.

The secondary explosion tactic is old, used in WW II. Bomb an area and drop delayed fuze bombs to take out/disrupt rescue and emergency crews, we did it and so did the Germans.