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| Guardian: Terr attacks limited to Blue Cities |
| 2006-08-11 |
| British suicide bombers were within days of blowing up 12 passenger jets above five US cities in an unprecedented terrorist attack designed to commit "mass murder on an unimaginable scale", counterterrorism sources claimed last night. Anti-terrorist agents said they had uncovered the plot from surveillance of a group of young British Muslims, which began nearly a year ago and was on a scale never before undertaken. US and British counterterrorism officials claimed the men, the majority British Muslims of Pakistani descent, were going to disguise liquid explosive as bottles of soft drink and carry them in their hand luggage on to US-bound planes leaving British airports. When the jets were in midair over American cities, they planned to combine the explosives and detonate them using an electric charge from an iPod, the security services believe. BA flights were among the targets. US officials said the bombers had been seeking to hit New York, Washington, San Francisco, Boston and Los Angeles. Other airlines targeted were thought to be United, American and Continental. What about Seattle? Madison? Eugene? |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #10 The terrorists blow themselves up, MOVEON.org Dems and domestic anti-American Americans will do the rest, ala PC isolationism and "justified" closed society and reactionist, popular Governmentism-Totalitarianism = National Safety-Security, Responsibility, Accountability, etc. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-08-11 23:29 |
| #9 Jackal, there's lots of 'em from Orlando (with bunches of kids going to Disney), Las Vegas is kinda/sorta red and they've got a bunch, and Phoenix has quite a few. Not sure how to classify Miami, but it's got international flights, too. |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2006-08-11 22:43 |
| #8 Well, name a Red city that has international flights. I've flown from DFW to Tokyo. It's a fourteen hour flight. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2006-08-11 22:06 |
| #7 Well, name a Red city that has international flights. Houston and San Diego are about the only ones I could think might apply. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2006-08-11 17:16 |
| #6 Like Swamp Blondie said, Madison doesn't have a lot of international flights...although Milkwaukee does. They wouldn't want to hit Madison anyway. They have enough support here from the campus -why blow up your buddies? |
| Posted by: SJB 2006-08-11 15:08 |
| #5 Because if the plot had gone through, Uncle Sam would have ended up in Pakistan and a universal draft would have been instituted to deal with the occupation. Safe bet, ZF. I can only imagine just how eager our military is to confiscate the only Muslim controlled nuclear arsenal in the world. Kahn's proliferation (and lack of court trial) has shown us exactly how stable or secure Pakistan's actual grip on nuclear technology really is. As to terror attacks on blue cities, my only guess is that they're going for a Zapatero effect. Sadly, in view of how spineless America's liberals seem to be of late, it just might work. I remain very thankful that our military will never surrender to these psychotic lunatics (no, not the liberals, the terrorists). |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-08-11 14:45 |
| #4 Why did Pakistan rat its jihadis out? Because if the plot had gone through, Uncle Sam would have ended up in Pakistan and a universal draft would have been instituted to deal with the occupation. The invasion of Iran would probably have followed. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-08-11 12:21 |
| #3 google on "starbucks muslim boycott" |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2006-08-11 11:50 |
| #2 I've been saying for a long time, if the terrorists deliver a devastating (NBC) hit to a big liberal urban area like those listed above, the left will have 2 problems: 1) We'll have martial law. 2) They'll be having to ask the right to spot them 8 to 10 million voters to replace those killed in a massive attack. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2006-08-11 11:49 |
| #1 The only carrier flying nonstop to Seattle from Britain is British Airways, and the other two don't have any nonstop flights there from London from any carriers at all. Although BA was targeted, the other cities have American flag carriers that also land there, so they might have been more attractive targets (plan B in case an American carrier wouldn't take them...take BA?) Who knows? Not enough recruits to include Seattle? Maybe they thought their butts might go numb by the time it got there? One of the chemicals/the iPod batteries wouldn't last that long? They didn't want to piss off Starbucks? |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2006-08-11 10:38 |