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Originally Posted by DWB
What's crazy is, you're just one guy with no agenda and you can see the weakness there. To a group who actually wanted to do harm and put in some work and thought, your scenario could easily become reality.
I've always said they could bring absolute fear and panic to the entire country if they just started randomly sending suicide bombers into churches, schools, malls, and restaurants. You know they have the guys here already who are willing to do it. Imagine the chaos if tomorrow 10 different pre-schools blew up and a handful of mall detonations happened in random states and cities. People would FREAK OUT. But what bothers me a little is that they don't do things like this, which makes me wonder if the threat is as real as we are told it is. It's not like they can't do it. Hell, any one of us could do it. But they don't, and that leaves me scratching my head.
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I haven't given it much thought, but every time I drive down to San Francisco we pass through a town that has these massive oil tanks. Every once in a while we'll see a security SUV with lights on it, but I'm guessing that's a single security guard that may or may not be armed. Seems like an easy target. The idea about ship came from an incident years ago when an oil tanker was out of control and slammed into port - taking out the entire town with it. (Sorry, seems it was just a fire but was the worst industrial accident ever:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster)
The truth is our security system fails to exist. This past weekend I was out on the backside of town - the farm land - where none of us suburbanites go... And noticed a lot of power lines which led to some kind of huge electrical transformer station.... Not a fucking soul in miles on a Sunday afternoon. Gas stations would be another target; Here in my home town last year we had a massive propane tank fire on a tanker train that caused our entire town to be evacuated for two days.
If you want to create mayhem in the US, the only thing stopping you is physically being here.