[AmericanInTokyo]

sure. you bet. it could be anything. could be a way to subvert upcoming elections if people were hit standing in line to vote, or disrupt Halloween as parents dont want their costumed kids lying face down in blood.

Bastards could say 'attack Iraq and you get more of these'. That would be a potent way to terrorize the soccer moms, who would drop support of the war and hope that if we 'could all just be friends in the Middle East' this would all go away.... a lot of interesting parameters here.

[SarahW]

Speaking for some of the soccerish=moms I hang out with, if its terrorism related to readical islamics, it means WAR.

[SarahW]

And if the readical islamics turn out to be *radical* islamics, then we'll really be mad! :)

[Chemist_Geek]

Bastards could say 'attack Iraq and you get more of these'. That would be a potent way to terrorize the soccer moms, who would drop support of the war and hope that if we 'could all just be friends in the Middle East' this would all go away.... a lot of interesting parameters here.

That's what I'm leaning towards, in my near-total ignorance of any real hard data. I'm sure that something like that would be right up Al-Qaeda's alley, and Saddam Hussein would love it too.