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If you want stick out like a sore thumb and you have dark skin, then go to Copper Hill,Tenn. If you really want to start people talking, then start asking odd questions.

Remember that FBI Chief Robert Mueller admitted on two separate occasions the FBI has yet to develop legal proof of the true identities of the suicidal hijackers.

Watch your propaganda, folks. Believing that this crack team of terrorists spent all this time putting themselves in positions of calling attention to themselves should be questioned.

Believing that this crack team of terrorists spent all this time putting themselves in positions of calling attention to themselves should be questioned.

Unless it was a deliberate act of psychological warfare. Its intent was to make us go nuts trying to guard everything in the entire country.

Yes, I must agree. Two arabs in Copper Hill, TN would stick out like a sore thumb (Polk County is officially listed as 99% white, 1% "other"). The thing that bothered me about this, was that even if they took out Hiwasee Dam, it would cause virtually no damage, other than two small power plants would no longer be able to produce power. The lake above the dam is not all that big, and it's not like some huge wave is going to go down the Hiwasee valley and take out the Sequoia Nuke plant in Chattanooga. At best, you might see a 6-8 inch rise in water levels on the TN River, which is what the Hiwassee River runs into. This is a VERY sparsely populated area. Polk Co., TN is 75% national forest, and has a population of about 30,000 people. It is very mountainous, and very remote. Chattanooga and Knoxville are the closest population centers, with Chattanooga being the closest, and about 60 mi. away. In short, it doesn't make sense to attack anything here. And as far as the chemical plant being hit and releasing acid into the Ocoee River, well, two or three trucks a year do that, so it's nothing we haven't seen before. I know all of the areas I have just mentioned intimately. I kayak on the Ocoee, and I keep my cruiser on the TN River about 5 mi. downstream of Seqouia Nuke facility. In short, your not going to do too much damage here in one fatal blow. It would take ALOT of preperation, and even more luck. I don't doubt that the terrorists could have been interested in the area though. The Olympic Whitewater park on the Ocoee hosted the World Cup whitewater events 2 weeks before the Trade Center/Pentagon attacks. Why would that be a target? About 10,000 people, all packed tightly into an area about 6 acres in size, and in a very deep valley. It's all speculation on my part, but the whitewater park could be considered an "international target", because this was where the Whitewater events took place in the '96 Olympics. Crashing a jumbo jet into the middle of that would have caused a very large amount of casualties. My $.02 worth, and a local perspective.