[theFIRMbss]

>I would be very watchful in large sporting/concert/convention/church events. Particularly before the election

'America will mourn in silence'

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This is a strange quote.
Since the bad guys are talking
of a large scale hit,

"silence" hints of an
electromagnetic pulse
which would disable

communications.
If terrorists have acquired
say, half a dozen

nuke-armed cruise missles
and detonate them across
the United States,

the whole country, then,
would be isolated and
we'd "mourn in silence"

because we'd have lost
the communication links
we take for granted.

[sweetiepiezer]

'America will mourn in silence'
This could also mean that we have no so called allies.

[concerned about politics]

"silence" hints of an electromagnetic pulse which would disable

The Arizona nuke plants supply most of the energy for the middle and west coast?

[UCANSEE2]

Don't think so. More likely, cyber-attacks on the INTERNET. The terrorists have U.S. Trained hackers in their employ, and they have made DAILY 'probes' into the Pentagon, DOD,Electrical grid control, and water supply controls, all computerized and running through the INTERNET. We have been working hard on a defense against this type of attack. Attack is Basically overwhelm and force DENIAL OF SERVICE at key communication points on the network.

A major attack occurred about 2 weeks ago, shutting down access to many websites. We have an isolate and destroy process in place, and that is why it wasn't worse.

[A CA Guy]

You hit one area, the rest would be screaming, so there would be no silence and these terrorists are not that smart. It was just bad use of the English language.