posted on August 17, 2003 06:54:23 PM new
Armed Air Marshalls? I'm not really all that worried about airplane crashes like 9/11. Next time will be something completely new.
Nukes and Bioweapons are obvious opportunities, but hard to get. Sooner or later, it'll happen, but not necessarily anytime soon.
What happens if terrorists decide to do a whole bunch of simultaneous car-bombings? Cars are easy to get, and from what I've heard, crude explosives aren't hard to make either. You can't regulate auto traffic the way you can air traffic.
How about mass assinations? Remember, these are religious fanatics on their way to Allah and the virgins. It's not hard to kill someone if you aren't concerned with getting caught.
The only hope is not to allow terrorists to get organized. Oh wait, that brings us back to the war on terror...
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posted on August 17, 2003 07:17:01 PM new
Replaymedia
“The Muslims want us dead. They won't stop until we are dead or they are dead.”
How about,
‘the American neo-cons want the whole world under the whip, especially those with oil assets, they won’t stop until they are dead’.
For replaymedia
Whose god orders the most violent plight for nonbelievers while on Earth?
Correct Answer: (The Christian god because he ordered his followers to kill all those of a different religion, including family members, friends and even their cattle, whereas the Moslem god simply required the enslaving of nonbelievers .) “If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods . . . thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people . . . If thou shalt hear . . . Certain men . . . have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods . . . Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants ofthat city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword” (Deuteronomy13:6-15). “Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection” (Koran 9:29).
Last week's enormous, cascading blackout should never have occurred. We knew the electrical grid was in sorry shape and the experiences of 1965 and 1977 were still in our collective memory. The experts told us again and again to expect a breakdown. Two years ago an official with the North American Electric Reliability Council said, "The question is not whether, but when the next major failure of the grid will occur."
We ignored the warnings, which is what we always do with warnings, and we paid a terrible price. Now we're left wondering what might happen if terrorists linked their madness to our electric power vulnerabilities.
The report I was reading when the power failed was issued less than two months ago and was titled, "Emergency Responders: Drastically Underfunded, Dangerously Unprepared."
The report acknowledged that some progress against terrorism has been made through the Department of Homeland Security and other federal, state and local institutions. But it said, "The United States has not reached a sufficient national level of emergency preparedness and remains dangerously unprepared to handle a catastrophic attack on American soil, particularly one involving chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear agents, or coordinated high-impact conventional means."
The task force that conducted the study was headed by former Senator Warren Rudman, a Republican, who, with former Senator Gary Hart, a Democrat, wrote two previous important studies that spotlighted the woeful state of our defenses against large-scale terror attacks.
Their first study was issued before the Sept. 11 catastrophe. It predicted a deadly attack, saying, "Americans will likely die on American soil, possibly in large numbers."
Their second study was issued last year and it accused the White House and Congress of failing to take the extensive and costly steps necessary to defend against another catastrophic attack, which they said was almost certain to occur.
Now we have yet another warning. If an attack were to occur, the report said, the so-called first responders — police and fire departments, emergency medical personnel, public works and emergency management officials — are not ready to respond effectively. And one of the reasons is that we won't spend the money or invest the effort necessary to adequately train and equip them.
After the next attack we'll have another study to assess what went wrong. And we won't pay attention to that study either.
posted on August 18, 2003 02:34:15 PM new
why do you always say "we ignore" we this and we that. Nobody sent me a personal letter warning me of the grid problem. What am I suppose to do? go out there and fix it myself? I ignore the warnings too. I forget to wear my safety belt on occasion and sometimes I just plain ignore it. I always ignore mattress tag warnings and I smoke and there is a warning label on the package. HELL IGNORING STUFF IS THE AMERICAN WAY!
posted on August 21, 2003 05:37:44 PM new Chaos is breeding support for terrorists
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts The bombing on Tuesday of the United Nations
headquarters in Baghdad was the latest evidence that America has taken a country
that was not a terrorist threat and turned it into one.
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Of course, we should be glad that the Iraq war was swifter than even its proponents
had expected, and that a vicious tyrant was removed from power. But the aftermath
has been another story. America has created - not through malevolence but through negligence -
precisely the situation the Bush administration has described as a breeding ground for terrorists:
a state unable to control its borders or provide for its citizens' rudimentary needs.
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As the Bush administration made clear in its national security strategy released last September,
weak states are as threatening to American security as strong ones. Yet the administration's
inability to get basic services and legitimate governments up and running in post-war Afghanistan and Iraq -
and its pursuant reluctance to see a connection between those failures and escalating anti-American violence -
leave one wondering if it read its own report.
The goal of creating a better Iraq is a noble one, but a first step will be making sure that ordinary Iraqis find America's ideals and assistance more appealing than Al Qaeda's.
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posted on August 21, 2003 05:43:58 PM new
What did you expect. They know what our intentions are. They know the new government Bush apointed for Iraq are just puppets. Thats why one of them got killed the other day.
If an empire bombed our country and took it over and then ocupied it and there was no water and no electricity what would you do?
These people have lost their jobs and alot of them probobly lost their loved ones when we bombed Baghdad.
They know why were there. Same thing happened to the Soviets when they invaded Afganistan.
[ edited by bigcitycollectables on Aug 21, 2003 05:48 PM ]
