Posted on 06/25/2002 11:31:20 AM PDT by Senator Pardek
As July 4 approaches, people are hunkering down, waiting for the terrorists to strike, whether with nerve gas in the subways, fuel trucks plowing into synagogues, bombs carried in kayaks, or assaults by fighters swimming to their targets in scuba suits. "They could hit us any day," Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Senate intelligence committee, tells the nation.
According to various recent reports, over the past two months perhaps as many as 25 terrorists have slipped into the U.S. as stowaways. Osama bin Laden himself was reportedly last seen in April in northeastern Afghanistan, and is expected to release another of his tapes before the holiday. There have been numerous warnings about dirty bombs and weapons of mass destruction.
But the damage could come in the form of a much more conventional attack. An e-mail recently making the rounds of military and law enforcement circles describes a captured Al Qaeda training tape said to reveal the group's expertise in small arms and close commando situations in urban settings like New York, Washington, and Chicago. The people seen training are skilled at handling rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, and at making quick attacks and retreats. The footage may be fake, although the people sending the tape around are military veterans with extensive combat experience.
One scenario involves ambushing cops. An apparently disabled vehicle is parked just before a freeway ramp, with shooters hidden inside. When the police officer pulls up, someone inside blows the horn and the shooters burst out firing. Then there's the residential assassination, where someone knocks on the door of a home, then empties his gun into whoever answers. There's also the golf-course assassination, where an RPG-type rocket is lobbed onto a golf green, taking out the security vehicle and leaving the golfers to be mowed down by rifle fire.
In other scenarios, terrorists rappel down the side of a building from the roof, move through tunnels or sewers, carry out drive-by kidnappings, and blow up guard houses to get into the main building lying behind. Drive-by killings can be executed on motorcycles, with the shooter standing on rear pegs with arms extended over the driver, firing as the bike races down the street.
For bigger raids, terrorists carry concealed weapons into a building, say a school or a financial institution, then in a swift show of violence take over the room, marching people up to the roof. TV reporters and photojournalists are allowed in. The kidnappers then begin to execute prisoners one by one in front of the cameras. The tape suggests planning several simultaneous raids to gain maximum exposure. The key point is that absolutely no one is left alive—men, women, children, all are killed.
In advice to law enforcement, one analyst of this training tape urges cops to begin shooting as soon as they recognize what's going on, and not to wait for any SWAT team or other support. Complying at any point is useless, since everyone will be ritually executed on the roof.
Wanna bet it'll happen in a community where firearm ownership is frowned upon?
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Ithaca, NY?
Eugene, OR?
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Apparently the Brooklyn Rabbi calling for armed patrols has the right idea.
That might finally bring home the fact that we are really at war. People may quit the political correctness and get serious.
Planes and buildings are one thing, even if they are full of people. Mowing down women and children shopping might unleash a whirlwind of retaliation that leaves the remaining towelheads sleepless a thousand years hence.
Bingo.
Not to mention, CCW is of limited utility against a dozen terrs armed with RPG's and automatic rifles, even assuming they're inept. Better call out the National Guard, and confiscate private weapons.
Safer that way, you see.
Wouldn't Mecca be an attention getter?
Well, they should just unhunker and get on with their lives. sheesh.
That's exactly what would happen.
Forfeiture. Military patrolling the streets. Roadblocks. Internal passports (National ID).
The solution will be worse than the problem, and many Americans won't tolerate it. The terrorists know that, in fact they're counting on it.
The wisest thing to do in such a situation would be to allow American citizens to defend themselves. But given who is in office, I doubt that would happen. Just look at what happened to airlines for example. No guns for pilots, and soldiers in the terminals. We'd just see more of the same.
They might try to pull this in some place like New York City, but around here in the rural South they would be cut down by common folks carrying concealed.
ROFL. Bin Laden can only DREAM of the US nuking Mecca; I don't know if there's anything that would make him happier. The ultimate recruiting help, courtesy of the US.
Notice how effective the Romans destroying the Temple was in eradicating Judaism?
Don't forget to carry the pound of bacon for their dead bodies.
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