MONDO WASHINGTON: Al Qaeda Training for Small-Arms Massacre

The Village Voice ^ | June 25 2002 | James Ridgeway

[1Old Pro]

There's also the golf-course assassination, where an RPG-type rocket is lobbed onto a golf green, taking out the security vehicle and leaving the golfers to be mowed down by rifle fire.

Uh oh.

[chs68]

Frightening.

Absolutely frightening.

[Billthedrill]

Hey, great news - we finally get to shoot back! Oh, that might be a bit of a problem for the lucky residents of the "enlightened" cities in mention, where you can't do that, but for the rest of us it'll be open season on the turban boys. Woohoo!

[codebreaker]

ping

[Minnesoootan]

Then there's the residential assassination, where someone knocks on the door of a home, then empties his gun into whoever answers.

Memo to self:watch Home Depot adds for sales on exterior doors and lap siding....should get a new sling for the Rem 12ga semi also,and don't forget to remove the waterfowler plug.

[codebreaker]

Sounds like Columbine, al Qaeda style.

Better to shoot the B*astards on sight

[Doctor Stochastic]

Perhaps there will be a (government sponsored) suggestion to just make owning small arms illegal.

[Spruce]

Article II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

That's how I'm prepared.

[dighton]

Practice makes perfect.

[old school]

"They could hit us any day," Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Senate intelligence
committee, tells the nation.

It's on account of those dopes in Washington that we're as vulnerable as we are. Not that I'd wish it upon them, but had the terrorists hit the Capitol, with Congress in session, we'd no worse for the wear. I say bring them do-rag wearing dummies on! I don't think that the American people are as afraid as some would have us believe!

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

We must make the price of these kinds of attacks clear to the Muslim barbarians. For every attack, there will be an overwhelming retaliation. A cop ambushed = a daisy cutter over a city. Escalate from there.

[TBall]

"open season on the turban boys. Woohoo" Please can we get some political correctness here? You should have written open season on the turban boys and girls.

[Lurker]

I've never worried much about anthrax attacks, dirty bombs, or any of that crap.

The scenario that bothers me the most is four or five van loads of these mooks showing up at a suburban shopping mall with AKs and cutting loose on a bunch of soccer moms and their kids.

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[freeeee]

At which point every American will be required to train with and carry a firearm.

In your dreams.

So far the war on terrorism has one distinct characteristic: More restrictions on citizens, and more government power.

If an incident like the hypothetical one in the article happened, the response would be the exact opposite from your idea: It would be the 9-11 of gun control. PATRIOT Act powers, and other war powers (which they'll make up as they go) will be used to disarm all Americans.

This in turn would likely cause some Americans to resist giving up their arms, and would cause us to fight one another. This is the ideal terrorist plot. After all, the purpose of terrorism isn't just to destroy a target, it also seeks to terrorize and destabalize a population. If they can cause in-fighting among us, that is an added bonus, similar to a 'secondary explosion'. The planes that hit the WTC were simply the catalyst for the force of gravity that brought them down. Similarly, most of the damage by this type of attack will come from gun control/seizure, and infighting among ourselves. Terrorists will seek to exploit weaknesses in our society, and I'm sure they are all too aware of the gun control movement in this country, and the response to Columbine.

Given the mentality behind our own government's response to terrorism up to this point, and the ruthless cunning of these terrorists, it would be foolish, naive and irrational to believe otherwise.

[Nouge]

A cop ambushed = a daisy cutter over a city. Escalate from there.

And what city do we start with?

[Paleo Conservative]

Al Qaeda training tape said to reveal the group's expertise in small arms and close commando situations in urban settings like New York, Washington, and Chicago.

All these jurisdictions prohibit concealed carry.

[codebreaker]

If they start on the shopping malls, make it Mecca.

[duckman]

It is my opinion that if the US suffers another terrorist attack from these people, the mid-east should become a sea of glass. A bit harsh maybe; but effective. Just fed up with these maggots.