[Travis McGee]

Who needs nukes? Just load a container with ANFO for a bomb 20 times bigger than OKC, detonate the container using a GPS trigger when the truck the container is loaded onto passes over a critical bridge etc.

Or an LNG tanker can be used as a bomb, or a crude oil supertanker rammed into a city on autopilot. The possibilities are limitless.

And there is not much we can do to stop it without severely hindering free world trade, leading to a global depression.

OTOH, look at the bright side. The arab death cult islemmings will be totally quarantined from world trade, and will have to find a way to drink oil and eat sand.

We will have a bad period of adjustment to the new economic realities, but the islemmings will starve by the millions, being totally dependent on outside food, with very shaky water resources. (A half dozen bombs could destroy 90% of Saudi Arabia's water desal plants, leading to the end of them once and for all.)

It's a classic case of nasty creeps living in a glass house throwing pebbles at the giant who owns the rock quarry. Long term, it's suicidal for them. Alive or dead, their oil will still be there waiting to be pumped by anyone who takes the fields.

[shaggy eel]

,,, there's always a bright side Travis!

[Squantos]

I never sleep well anyway these days ..........:o)

Stay Safe !

[wardaddy]

Yep..their oil is ours for the taking..if they want to play hardball...that is hardball from the soft Muftis sitting in Riyadh paying their minions to do the dirty work.

Not to mention, their investments outside their oil infrastructure is in the West almost totally.

[dennisw]

Good post! A radiological bomb is so easy to make. Just detonate one in Grand Central Station and a transport hub is out for months while very nook and crany is decontaminated.

[harpseal]

Other wonderful possible ship bombs include bulk carriers loaded with fertilizer. The Texas City disaster was an explosion on the same scale as a small nuke. Likewise in WWI an ammunition ship detonated in a Canadian port it was in the same order of magnitude of explosive power as the Hiroshima blast. Nor do the Tangos need to restrict themselves to the most conventional explosives. Bulk Carriers loaded with sugar and dosed with a few tons of a particular chemical would take out a large portion of a city. Wheat carriers have a whole lot of grain dust and are a major disaster when they burn. Chemical and fuelk barges and tankers also have a major destructive potential.

The USCG was overstrectched in 1999 and things have just gotten worse since then.

Stay well - stay safe - stay armed - Yorktown