[Salvation]

including one million children,"

Schools? Amusement Parks?

[rintense]

Schools have been my biggest fear all along. Thankfully, the school year is almost over. Thr irony is that on Sept 11, many parents were not at the WTC because they were taking their kids to the first day of school...

[ladyjane]

Schools? Supposedly in Brookline MA some ME men went to some schools saying they wanted to send their children there, wanted tours of the schools and asked for floor plans.

[r9etb]

Schools? Amusement Parks?

Schools, big cities, and bio-engineered Chicken Pox, perhaps. It's easy enough to get, extremely commonplace, and widely considered to be harmless.

But if we look at it, the terrorists would be utter fools to do this sort of thing. Not only would they lose any claim to humane treatment (the only thing holding us back now), but they would ensure that we'd get pissed off enough to spare no effort in hunting them down for real.

Beyond that, such an attack would be meaningless in a strategic sense. Even 4 million people is an insignificant percentage of the population; and I think they've probably grossly underestimated the capabilities of the public health system in stopping the spread of the disease, if such exists.

[El Gato]

including one million children,"

Schools? Amusement Parks?

Any largish city will do, if your tool is a nuke. Don't forget about the 4 million total threatened deaths.