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Immediate havoc from death, destruction, contamination, and creation of refugees (for All Jazz Era rebroadcast) plus hundreds of billion$ in long-term costs to our economy is certainly our mortal enemies' goal.

Crippling our economy is Qaeda's stated goal as they cannot hope engage our military.

A dirty bomb provides nearly the same costs to us because of the transgenerational "area-deniability" from highly mobile, bargain, conveniently small amounts of common radioactive material. Many, many thousands of sources of this stuff exists in addition to the USSR's agricultural crap left laying around.

Decades of our fantasyland living will crash to an end as surely as the civilian souls in the four flights and WTC. At least our Pentagon victims were at work in the defense of our USA; thank God for them.

Americans face mortal enemies who will to kill as many Americans as they can. We shall take many more casualties, men, women, and children. Birth defects will punish the Great Satan's infedels.

A dirty bomb provides nearly the same costs to us because of the transgenerational "area-deniability" from highly mobile, bargain, conveniently small amounts of common radioactive material. Many, many thousands of sources of this stuff exists in addition to the USSR's agricultural crap left laying around.

Al Qaeda showed on 9/11 that they don't intend to do anything peacemeal when attacking the US on our own soil. The investigation of the 1993 WTC bombing revealed that their objective was to bring down at least one of the towers in that attack and likely hoped that if one came down, that it might topple into the adjoining tower or several other smaller buildings. 9/11 was the ultimate example of their zeal for increasingly more devistating attacks.

I don't think that a radiological bomb would be "big enough" for them next time around. Their margain of success would be too dependant on the weather for an optimal dispersal of the radioactive material.

IMO, the next likely AQ move will be another coordinated, multiple event type of attack, like chem/bio weapons used in densly populated places like shopping malls and/or sporting events, or a full-fledged nuclear bomb. The bomb would likely be targeted at one of our shipping ports (probably New York again) since they wouldn't have to risk getting caught moving it inside the country.