Murderous Terrorists Kill Brits

[Undertoad]

It's a good point dar. (I'm gettin schooled in this thread) What amazes me is how little it would take to disrupt the economy further. A single sniper in Wash. D.C. area meant the whole area went into paralysis for a while. Ten snipers, one in each major city, could reduce economic activity 5%, easy and cheap. I don't get why they don't do something like that.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

It's a good point dar. (I'm gettin schooled in this thread) What amazes me is how little it would take to disrupt the economy further. A single sniper in Wash. D.C. area meant the whole area went into paralysis for a while. Ten snipers, one in each major city, could reduce economic activity 5%, easy and cheap. I don't get why they don't do something like that.

Yes, if terrorists really wanted to hurt the United States they would attack the water and food supply. What would you do if there was a possibility that anthrax was in the water supply or biological weapons were released in random grocery stores? Riots of unseen sizes would occur in less then a week.

That would have been possible pre-9/11 (the latter is still possible today) and it would require even less planning. You would need a few people to work at water treatment plants and a steady source of biological weapons and you would be set. As my Water and Wastewater Treatment professor told me, he could wipe out an entire city if he wanted too.


For the reason, I still believe the main point was to get the United States to have direct conflict in the Middle East so Al Qaeda membership would grow.

[xoxoxoBruce]

They couldn't count on the US attacking the Middle East, but they were assured a #1 (with a bullet?) spot on the list of many splintered terrorist groups for interested Islamic Radicals to sign on with.

Although the snipers would have an economic effect, we have too many of our own homegrown snipers for them to stand out in the big publicity picture.