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Will Muslim Terrorists Burn the Western States?
Independent Logic
| June 12, 2002
| Silas
Posted on 06/12/2002 6:24:10 AM PDT by Silas
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To: Mr_Magoo;Travis McGee
Some of our homegrown firebugs have been known to shoot bottlerockets out car windows while driving and not even needing to stop to start fires.A little tweak with something like paraffin would easily increase the effectiveness.
Travis,I've worried about your theory for years.It's just too easy for anyone to pull off in a number of ways.Think about what could be done with fusees and an airplane,I'm sure the terrorists have.
To: Free Trapper
Pray for rain and lazy unimaginative terrorists.
To: Travis McGee
I've been seeing a few tie ins between the ALF-ELF types,anarchists and some of the Muslim terrorists.
Something like this could cause conflict in their mutual support and they might turn on each other.
I guess I have to look for a silver lining.:O)
To: Silas
I'm sure they'll thank you for passing this on over the net.
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posted on
06/12/2002 11:30:17 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
To: A CA Guy
Yeah, I'm sure they never saw the Denver Fire on TV. Free Republic gets MUCH wider exposure than ABCNNBCBS.
Burying our heads in the sand and hoping that terrorists would not think of flying jetliners into buildings was a great strategy for the FBI and others the last ten or so years, don't you think?
Maybe if we igore it, it will go away.
To: Travis McGee
Keep the Arabs away from our volcanos!!!!!
86
posted on
06/12/2002 11:37:01 PM PDT
by
ALASKA
To: Free Trapper
I can't see a single silver lining.
To: Silas
My thoughts exactly as I head home to New Mexico.
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posted on
06/12/2002 11:39:17 PM PDT
by
Quix
To: Travis McGee
Sydney fires here sounded like a frieght train coming invisible superheated eucalyptus vapour ran in front like a napalm cloud
To: AzJP
How about lightening?Get serious. The Trade Centers weren't brought down by a big draft and some snowballs.
If you live anywhere near trees and brush, this is a major concern.
To: Governor StrangeReno
How wide were the largest fires, frontally? Do they begin to behave in different ways from "typical" forest fires that are 5 to 20 miles wide?
(The Denver fire I think is up to 50 miles wide. They are not even fighting it in front, just trying to channelize it on the sides.)
To: Travis McGee
I would hope,probably beyond hope,that some of the Earth First types would get wind of such a plan and turn the right names over before the action was carried out.
It seems like about every nut group in the world is tied to each other in some way when all the different links are followed.
To: Free Trapper
Not going to happen. The islamic insane death cultists who pull something like this will just be ten or 20 friends from a mosque in San Diego or Denver out on a weekend field trip.
To: Travis McGee
About 100 fires over 300 mile stretch largest fire 60 mile arc,741,000 acres 150 houses 10 000 fire fighters 2 weeks beyond 40-50 mile fronts can't use ground crews have to water bomb
To: SJackson
Fight back. Think out of the box.
To: Travis McGee
You're right but I could see even fewer getting the job done with just a little thought put into it.
There are way too many ways to cause major destruction in the U.S. without a lot of money,special equipment,training or even half a brain.
To: Governor StrangeReno
>Sydney fires here sounded like a freight train coming invisible superheated eucalyptus vapour ran in front like a napalm cloud.I saw pictures of trees that appeared to be 150-200 or more feet tall in flame from the bottom to the top -- really impressive! For comparison sake, I seem to recall that a Eucalyptus (bluegum) is more flammable than a Pine tree.
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posted on
06/13/2002 12:36:58 AM PDT
by
2sheep
To: Free Trapper
One idea for limiting the arson potential would be to suppress reporting of weather conditions that would be favorable to arsonists. The weather forecasts -- which come straight from a national agency if I'm not mistaken and are simply read to us by nice looking reporters as if they are their own predictions -- should be considered strategic military information. This is in fact what this information is.
I do not want to see any cutsie reporters reading a teleprompter telling me -- and all of the terrorists we have living comfortably in the US -- that over the next few days we will have strong Santa Ana winds. It's a shame that we are at this point of restricting weather forecasts but here we are. We have to deal with this.
Of course, I am certain that the government will never acknowledge terrorist arsons. They will say that the blaze is 'under investigation' but ultimately they will never say the word 'arson' or 'terrorist', just as they never use the word 'bomb' when a plane explodes in mid-air. But if we discuss this issue now, calmly before it happens, we can help to develop an action plan in the event that it does happen.
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posted on
06/13/2002 7:02:47 AM PDT
by
Silas
To: Governor StrangeReno
That sounds terrible! Now they are saying the Denver fire may take until SEPTEMBER to burn out!
To: Silas,Free Trapper
Not only will the met data NOT be restricted, I have no doubt that someone could call the US Forest Service with a thick Arabic accent and claim to be a "student doing research" and get advanced wind, forest risk, fire model data etc etc.
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