Posted on 06/25/2002 11:31:20 AM PDT by Senator Pardek
As July 4 approaches, people are hunkering down, waiting for the terrorists to strike, whether with nerve gas in the subways, fuel trucks plowing into synagogues, bombs carried in kayaks, or assaults by fighters swimming to their targets in scuba suits. "They could hit us any day," Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican on the Senate intelligence committee, tells the nation.
According to various recent reports, over the past two months perhaps as many as 25 terrorists have slipped into the U.S. as stowaways. Osama bin Laden himself was reportedly last seen in April in northeastern Afghanistan, and is expected to release another of his tapes before the holiday. There have been numerous warnings about dirty bombs and weapons of mass destruction.
But the damage could come in the form of a much more conventional attack. An e-mail recently making the rounds of military and law enforcement circles describes a captured 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. The people seen training are skilled at handling rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, and at making quick attacks and retreats. The footage may be fake, although the people sending the tape around are military veterans with extensive combat experience.
One scenario involves ambushing cops. An apparently disabled vehicle is parked just before a freeway ramp, with shooters hidden inside. When the police officer pulls up, someone inside blows the horn and the shooters burst out firing. Then there's the residential assassination, where someone knocks on the door of a home, then empties his gun into whoever answers. 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.
In other scenarios, terrorists rappel down the side of a building from the roof, move through tunnels or sewers, carry out drive-by kidnappings, and blow up guard houses to get into the main building lying behind. Drive-by killings can be executed on motorcycles, with the shooter standing on rear pegs with arms extended over the driver, firing as the bike races down the street.
For bigger raids, terrorists carry concealed weapons into a building, say a school or a financial institution, then in a swift show of violence take over the room, marching people up to the roof. TV reporters and photojournalists are allowed in. The kidnappers then begin to execute prisoners one by one in front of the cameras. The tape suggests planning several simultaneous raids to gain maximum exposure. The key point is that absolutely no one is left alivemen, women, children, all are killed.
In advice to law enforcement, one analyst of this training tape urges cops to begin shooting as soon as they recognize what's going on, and not to wait for any SWAT team or other support. Complying at any point is useless, since everyone will be ritually executed on the roof.
Damn right!
But of course, the gun grabbers will start wringing their hands and crying....
Looking ont he bright side, perhaps they'll get OJ as he searches for the real killers.
astute observation, I'm afraid...
Bingo.
Also, for anyone who can pass a criminal history check, and letter of recommendation, I highly suggest you check out Storm Mountain Training Center. It is one of the best, if not the best tactical training schools in the US. If the terrorists do try to use that kind of attack, you will be much more prepared to handle it.
http://www.stormmountain.com
Mike
Start with the cities that 'celebrate' the attacks a la 9-11.
However, the dismaying part of all this is that our government (yup, including the Repubs, including GW and his otherwise competent cabinet) simply cannot get away with doing anything remotely like you're talking about.
Could Al-Queda do anything and still count on us not retaliating? That's what I'm afraid of.
If there is some "threshhold" damage they inflict on us which would trigger a massive response from us against some terrorist state (say daisy cutters, or nukes), our government is (probably prudently) not saying what that threshhold is.
But, the scary thing is that evey they (i.e. our government) doesn't know what the threshhold is, or (worse) the threshold is up for grabs (like our posture toward Arafat).
Everyone keeps saying this is a whole new ball game. I agree. And, it looks like we're having to learn the rules by trial and error as the play proceeds.
Everyone should be expecting this kind of attack. It might not be 25 attacks. Not to sound alarmist, but they could be in every town over 10,000 population, all waiting for the signal. No turbans.
Don't all foursomes get a personal security vehicle to guard them as they play the course :) ? Must be something that's optional to protect golfers from their wives who can't understand why they spend 5 hours hitting a white ball when they could be doing something else such as painting the house, cleaning the dishes.....
Take out Mecca, Paris, Bahgdad, Cairo, and Gay Bay. That would be progress.
We would awaken a huge group of people and unite their anger toward a common goal - the eradication of the west, period. Just as we get upset at our symbols being desecrated, they would get just as upset... Now, if we want to take on the entire Islamic world, then that's a different matter completely.
Keep in mind, that getting rid of radical Islamists is not the same thing as getting rid of Islam. This is NOT the Spanish Inquisition (no Python jokes, please). We are not trying to eliminate all things Islamic - If we were, we would have done so much more neatly and rapidly than to work with the cobbled-together coalition that the President has put together.
Do you think PC will end at this time? I don't. I think it will take a nuclear weapon going off, and still it might not end PC. I hope I am wrong, however.
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Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
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I get many hi fives, Semper Fi's, right-ons and atta-boys for the Bush 2004, NRA, OFF and several pro-gun bumper stickers on my Ford SVT White Lightnin' pickup...
I'm going on twelve years here and wouldn't live any place else, besides it's fun to light up the liberals... :o)
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Ahhh, proportional response -- Muslim Mecca for shopping mecca.
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