Posted on 11/26/2001 10:03:38 PM PST by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:49:29 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
After September 11, when the director of the CIA learned about the threat of terrorism in the newspapers, "Western intelligence agencies" were told to get with the program.
The president and his men were caught unaware because "Western intelligence agencies" had no agents on the ground in Afghanistan. They had spent years and untold billions of dollars on spy satellites, computer networks, electronic surveillance gizmos to read e-mail and cellular telephone calls and lots of other neat (and expensive) stuff. Indeed, so much of what the CIA learns is collected from newspaper clippings that the director of the agency ought to be called the Pastemaster General.
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It would take a ton of Anthrex spores to kill many with a balloon exploding over a city.
Not very precise, and if done at a high altitude it would scatter it so much that it wouldn't be concentrated enough to hurt anyone.
On the other hand it would put the fear of God in to the residents of any city that was attacked that way.
I see acts of industrial sabatoge as an effective means of hurting our country, but they go for fear causing acts more than economic.
That's why what they did on the 9-11 was such an effective terror attack. Fear, economic downturn, publicity. The publicity part is backfiring right now as they are about to be slaughtered, but for a few days every nut job Arab in the World had a woody over the attack.
This is stupid journalism.
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