[giotto]

I have a very ominous feeling that a major bridge is going to be the next target of a truck bomb. There are six or seven important bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area, and any one of them would cause a traffic nightmare if it were to collapse, not to mention the loss of life.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Why, though, would terrorists tip their hand like this, except to divert attention from the real target? Unless they are so confident that they can take down a bridge right under our watchful noses, that is.

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

I have a very ominous feeling that a major bridge is going to be the next target of a truck bomb. There are six or seven important bridges in the San Francisco Bay Area, and any one of them would cause a traffic nightmare if it were to collapse, not to mention the loss of life.

If you follow their recent modus operandi, the plan will likely involve several trucks, well spaced out, set to go off nearly simultanously.

Are there any high-population areas that only have one bridge to the mainland? I want to say North Carolina has one such area, and perhaps Galveston Island in Texas, but are there others? They could take out a bridge and carry out other attacks on the island with fire and rescue personnel unable to get to the island in time.

You know, when you stop and think about it, there are all sorts of ways to hit us. That's part of the problem of being an open, and geographically huge, country.