I heard Dallas and Houston (Houston for the refineries, I'm assuming). But, why Dallas? What's in Dallas that terrorists would want to target?

That's what I want to find out. I heard "oil interests" in Dallas. And since I am officing in downtown Dallas, I am curious to know how close I might have been.

Just assume that everything is a target.

All I heard was that they were targeting financial and oil centers in Dallas. I have heard no specifics.

My guess is that ANYTHING in Texas, being GWB's homestate, would be a good target.

Assume everything is a target? Absolutely! Especially that hotbed of infidelism...the Putt-Putt down the street. Still...I wonder what the reports were talking about.

ABC news is reporting that the Sears Tower in Chicago was a target for a truck bomb

this AM on WLS (ABC radio affiliate in Chicago) there was a report that 5 people arrested since 9-11 had plans for the Sears Tower in their possession and 4 of them had fradulent licenses to transport hazardous materials. The conjecture was that a truck bombing of the Sears Tower was in the planning. 3 were arrested in Detroit area, One in Chicago area, and one in Cedar Rapids,Iowa.

Pepsico is headquartered there as well. Don't they own Frito Lay and several fast food chains? With the structure of the food processing sector, (and most Americans relying on processed, packaged foods) it wouldn't take much to disrupt food systems either.

not to change subject but just heard on radio about truck bomb in indi killing 25,anybody?

There are several gigantic buildings downtown, including a large World Trade Center that looks nothing like the one in NYC did.

There is, however, only one target in Texas that I think is of the same symbolic value as the WTC, with international meaning - the Alamo. There were some rumors that an attack was planned in San Antonio . . . maybe the Tower of the Americas but I can't believe they wouldn't hit the Alamo if SA was the target city.

Exxon-Mobil Headquarters? DFW airport? We have an area with Frito-Lay, JC Penney and EDS HQ's all within a mile of each other. Over 20, 000 people work in that area alone.

Possibly the Federal Reserve or the Bank of America building?

A likely potential target in the Houston area does indeed exist, but it's not a refinery or petrochemical center, and neither is it the nearby SPX airport in which both George W Bush [through his *Arbusto Corporation* investments] and Salem bin-Laden, the late brother of Osama bin-Laden, both share a financial interest through Texas middleman and Bush pal James Bath. See the following FReepPost and response thread from about a year ago.

Oh- the Target? *Houston, we've got a problem....* NASA's Lyndon Johnson Space Center, about 20 miles SW of downtown Houston, and very near SPX Airport. They're on alert justlike most other military installations.

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What's in Dallas that terrorists would want to target?

Well, the Dallas Cowboys do look pretty pathetic so far this year.

(Sorry, I couldn't resist.)

Don't think of it in terms of human casualties . . . the terrorists want that, but the dead are essentially "frosting" on the "cake" - which is the symbolic value of the target paired with the ensuing terror the attacks provoke. They may also be motivated by numerological meanings derived from works of Islamic mysticism, such as the five sides of the Pentagon (pentagram) and the two towers of the WTC.

Dallas is a huge financial center. There is a lot of new and old money here. Bank of America is the tallest building in downtown Dallas and because of the name and the size of the building, it has been speculated that it was a target.

Other targets that I have seen, It was on Fox News or on CNN over the weekend, were the Sears Tower in Chicago, the Golden Gate Bridge and Trans-America building in San Francisco and various other unknown or unspecified targets in LA and Atlanta.

Hmmm...what about this theory?
...many of the anti-American/Islamic crowd talk about their disgust at the "decadent lifestyle" of Americans...and they often mention the TV show "Dallas" -- (they evidentally think we ALL have homes/families like the "Ewings") -- maybe taking out something in Dallas would be more of a symbolic hit, smashing the decadence of the rich "cowboys"

Just assume that everything is a target.

Somehow I think the lodge up at Big Bend is probably safe. It has lots of pigs to protect it. ;-)