Monday, May 09, 2005

Apocalypse NYC?

Row of Loosely Guarded Targets Lies Just Outside New York
City
By DAVID KOCIENIEWSKI
Terrorism experts call a chlorine gas plant in northern New
Jersey the deadliest target in the most dangerous two miles
in the U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/09/nyregion/09homeland.html?th&emc=th

Having seen the FEMA reports on us, I am all too well aware that we are a totally unguarded city that could be devastated either physically or economically with the abilities and/or equipment of any average individual or several of same determined to do us in. I am amazed that we have survived as long as we have post 9/11. On my subway trips I see those signs urging us to report to the police or MTA workers anything suspicious such as a shiny new briefcase left behind. Believe me, it is not the briefcases that worry me.

Lest I suggest a modus operandi to some nut, one need only use one's imagination to figure how to do in NYC. During WW2, so the story goes, a group of philosophers was enlisted to figure out how the Germans were able to calculate the departures of our major convoys. The team read the NY Times and suggested that the spate of wedding announcements that preceded each major sailing be omitted. It apparently at least helped. So any terrorists on the march, just keep reading such as the above and you will have your best targets identified for you. The Bush people are busy guarding Iraq and its oil, not the U.S. chemical and nuclear plants or our critical modes of transportation.

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