No thread about the new WIKILEAKS United States diplomatic cables leak?

[Guynemer]

#1: in general, and #2: not all educational institutions are equal.

If the best they can do is have some schmuck try to blow up a plane by lighting his nuts on fire, I am really, really, really not afraid.

[DaShi]

Indeed, there are a lot of engineers in third world countries that couldn't work a fulcrum. Those that can usually can do better than a terrorist organization.

[rah]

All it would take would be a half a dozen suicide bombers to take out 6 different commuter trains in the US. This could paralyze the US. Can you imagine that if people were afraid to ride commuter trains across the US, what it would cost to eliminate that fear. Next buses. It would not take a lot of capable resources to pull it off and I'm actually surprised that it hasn't happened.

[DaShi]

Ha ha. People are already afraid to take commuter trains in the US.

[Chemical Ollie]

Ha ha. People are already afraid to take commuter trains in the US.

Imagine what a dozen car bombs would do then The whole nation would freeze.

[rah]

Funny man Dashi. All kidding aside, cities like NY and Chicago would be crippled without the commuter train network. Now add a few bombs on the subway or L.

CO, remember how paralyzed DC was because of one sniper.

That's my point. It wouldn't take much at all to really stick it to us, and it hasn't happened yet. They can't have command of that many capable resources on site. With trains, it wouldn't even require suicide bombers. It's easy to get off trains unnoticed.

[Asher]

All it would take would be a half a dozen suicide bombers to take out 6 different commuter trains in the US. This could paralyze the US. Can you imagine that if people were afraid to ride commuter trains across the US, what it would cost to eliminate that fear. Next buses. It would not take a lot of capable resources to pull it off and I'm actually surprised that it hasn't happened.

WOW!!!!

You should be tried with TREASON!

Now commuter trains are a target!!! BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS!

[rah]

I have to have something to think about while I'm dozing on my daily train commute.

[Elok]

LUCKILY the TERRORISTS are all gigantic ****-UPS and can't do JACK **** at PRESENT!

Number of major, successful, planned terrorist attacks in the U.S. since 2001: 0
Number of bungled terrorism attempts which failed spectacularly and still had us crapping our pants: <20

[rah]

Yeah, I'd like to think it was due to diligence by US government agencies but we know that can't be it.

[Asher]

Number of major, successful, planned terrorist attacks in Canada since 2001: 0
Number of bungled terrorism attempts which failed spectacularly and still had us crapping our pants in Canada: 0

VICTORY.

[BeBMan]

I now see warnings displayed at metro/cityrail/etc stations here, saying people should look if there are lonely bags or something. This was introduced couple of weeks ago when there came more and more reports that there are indications for possible Mumbai-style terror attacks somewhere in Europe ....just that these were carried out by guys throwing grenades and firing at anything that moves with assault rifles, so I'm not sure how this would prevent such an attack.

But yeah, maybe there are still some uncool old-style terrorists that plant bags containing explosives instead of having them in their pants.

[Elok]

Of course, U.S. government did its part, and I didn't mean to deny it. But everybody seems to forget that 9/11 only happened due to our own complacency. It takes time, money, and planning to stage a major terrorist attack, and it's hard to sneak something big past a vigilant enemy. If Al Qaeda were still a large and formidable force, we might have more cause to be worried, but most of the active nutters seem to be puny little outfits and lone jerkoffs shoving bombs down their knickers.

[rah]

We get similar messages. My favorite is the "don't carry packages onto the train if given to you by people you don't know" Has anybody ever done that?

[DaShi]

I don't know. My friend Vito Corleone accepted a strange bundle from some guy he didn't know and everything seemed to turn out ok for him.