Post more details as they come as this "event" is supposed to happen during "rush hour" on the 2nd through 7th. Morning rush hour is still to come out here.

Based on the new details, I'm highly suspicious of this "threat".

As an aside...a San Diego student has apparently been charged with perjury for lying about knowing two of the terrorists. He was *NOT* involved in the bombing or planning. He could get 5 years. I thought the Clintonphiles said this never happened?

Has it ever occured to anyone that the "specific targets" of the Bridge threats are decoys for the ones they REALLY intend to strike?

sw

The Taliban seem to have been going on about a threat to their dams from our bombing. A couple of weeks ago, they accused us of chemical and biological warfare, when the anthrax letters were going round. They seem to need to accuse us of what they are doing. So I would watch our dams.

That's a very interesting observation.

Takes a lot of C4 to down a bridge, I suspect.

"Make a noise in the East, but strike in the West."

A broken clock is right once every twelve hours, but it’s by error resulting from a defect.

The dams have been watched very closely since at least 9-11. There are no commercial trucks or travel trailers or RV's allowed near Hoover Dam.

Has it ever occured to anyone that the "specific targets" of the Bridge threats are decoys for the ones they REALLY intend to strike?

I've thought that, too. Also, that they're going to push the date of the actual strikes as close to Ramadan as they can, forcing our hands to attack them during Ramadan.

These yahoos WANT a holy war and want US looking at this as a holy war. That's why I think the Pope is one of their highest-priority targets.

C4 is not the weapon of choice, I fear. I fear the explosive power of LNG carriers (ships) that pass under the bridges.

Living in the foothills of the Smokies, I don't literally "fear" them, just making a point.

They seem to need to accuse us of what they are doing. So I would watch our dams.

Notice that the public accusations preceed the attacks here. I think the Taliban's press releases are little more than "code word" communications to their operatives over here.

Soiunds like it to me. I am thinking that they are trying to throw us off. They can do a lot of damage just by having bridges closed. I love in NJ and when the Truck Explosing took out a part of a bridge on Rt 80 in the summer it cause a lot of grief and traffic for over 3 months. Imagine if they had to close all of those bridges during rush-hour.

This is just Gov. Davis trying to grab the limelight!

Think of the most unlikely place it could happen. That's were the strike will occur if there is one.

6 bridges and 8 warned governors? So now we have to figure out which two bridges are located on the border of two states??????

So I would watch our dams

Hoover Dam web site shows your concern is shared.

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forcing our hands to attack them during Ramadan.

Oh, please, please do it! Make my day!

Yes, and it is abit hard to believe that they would give us warning, considering the shocking event of 9/ll.

Maybe our "sources" are double-agents? I don't mean this to sound paranoid, it's just that we don't know for sure we can trust them, especially if we are paying good money for the information..

sw

I think this bridge threat is a decoy. What purpose would this achieve? It seems the fed is willing to allow themselves to be duped so it looks like they have "intelligence" on the plans of the terrorists.

Blowing up a bridge takes some pretty elaborate planning. Casulties would be low, and it wouldn't really affect the economy. As far as instilling terror, unlike the anthrax, people know where they can find bridges, thus they can avoid the threat. I'm sorry, but if anthrax is phase II...Phase III is smallpox or dirty nukes or possibly some unthought of tactic that would really shock us. Blowing up bridges is not phase III of this attack...it doesn't fit the MO.

Of course, I could be wrong...and the terrorists may want it to appear that they spent themselves on the first attack, and make us beleive that anything else they do would be small and barely significant. This could make us put our proverbial guard down. Then the real phase II could start.

I have lost faith in the ability for the FED to protect us at home.

Takes a lot of C4 to down a bridge, I suspect.

Fire --- very hot fire --- melts steel. Fire, not blast, destroyed the WTC towers.

If they drove a gasoline truck to the center of the bridge and blew it up the intense heat would melt the cable and destroy the road bed. The bridge would collapse.

Solution: Remove all drivers from trucks. Trucks driven across by security personnel. Actual drivers bussed across.

Inconvenient? Hell, yes. But it would reduce threat.