The Ultimate Reward?

Robert Fisk: The Reality of This Barbaric Bombing
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/070905Z.shtm

I don't think Fisk has got it entirely right here. Having worked as assistant to a blaster two summers before I wrote short stories of enterprise for Fortune Magazine as a college student, I am well aware that it takes about as much sophistication as being able to maintain and run a vacuum cleaner to construct a crude bomb, carry it into a subway through an unguarded station entrance (as hundreds of ours are in NYC), and set it to go off down the line at the station where one departs the train in the middle of rush hour (no one is really sure what belongs to whom amidst the crush of a crowded subway car). I suspect that any number of amateurs -- Timothy McVeigh type malcontents -- are plotting their hours of glory now. We had several who were turned in by a roommate in Brooklyn with bombs being constructed to blow our Franklin St. transfer station just prior to 9/11. It does not take a bin Laden to unleash such horrors. Any amateur or small cabal of associates can do it on their own so long as they are inspired by all that attention their action is likely to generate along the lines we have seen this past week. Can you imagine being condemned by the major world leaders for something you have (secretively) done? Looks to be the ultimate in psychological rewards for mad bombers!
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